Massachusetts during the Puritan Era. The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible both possess the idea of the combination of church and state. People who commit religious sins are punished and the crime is portrayed as a criminal crime. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester is disciplined for the misdeed of adultery by the magistrates and is forced to wear the letter “A” upon her bosom. Likewise, in The Crucible anyone who is accused of witchcraft and does not confess is severely punished by being hung. In addition,
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Scarlet Letter: Dimmesdale’s Guilt In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale grows weaker, whilst dealing with the insufferable guilt brought on by his adulterous temptations. Dimmesdale’s sinful counterpart, Hester Prynne, faces her shame externally, while the reverend suffers from the inside. Dimmesdale, hypocritically, would rather be highly regarded by his peers than being truthful to himself, and in turn, God who would easily be able to see the transparent acts
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Sophocles, an ancient Greek believed, “Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.” The quote expresses how honor is more about accepting the mistakes made and standing up to fix them instead of living life to a perfect image. In the classic playwright, The Crucibles, Arthur Miller demonstrates the chivalrous actions of others due to the witch trials. This quote can be applied to the protagonist, John Proctor who shows honor when he confesses of being an
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach – Anna Terese Aucoin In the passage from Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, the author, Mary Roach, argues that those who develop and test military technologies and innovations are equally, if not more, deserving of recognition for their accomplishments as combatants and front-line fighters. She does so by first using a surprising example of a military “weapon,” the chicken gun, which is used to save lives, a feat accomplished thanks
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, tells the story of a woman who commits adultery in a puritanical society. As punishment for her sin, Hester Prynne must wear the ignominious scarlet letter ‘A’ for adulteress. As a result, she is the constant target of ridicule and persecution, which in Puritan society was a punishment almost equivalent to death.Throughout the novel, multiple Puritan beliefs are reflected, however; these tenets of Puritanism are used to reveal a further symbolic or
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all sins are viewed as equal, this is the society of the Puritans, where people received the same punishment for murder as they would for theft. In The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is affected by the secret of his adultery with Hester Prynne, that he must keep hidden. This secrecy has affected Dimmesdale, from him having a mental break down and punishing himself to him constantly being weak and lethargic. Overall, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, presents the negative
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The novel,The Scarlet Letter,by Nathaniel Hawthorne, tells the story of a young woman named Hester Prynne, who must wear a scarlet A to mark her unforsaken crime of adultery. As a consequence she was forced to stand upon a scaffold while the townspeople were insulting her without knowing her side of the story and the fact that her husband has disappeared for a full two years. As the story continues, she's back in prison, when her husband who is known as a physician named Roger Chillingworth shows
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Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel that delves into the effects of social ostracization. The main character Hester Prynne is unable to be accepted into society because she has been labelled as an adulteress. The townspeople’s inability to forgive Hester because of their devout religious beliefs only adds to her feelings of guilt and embarrassment. The judgement passed on Hester contributes to the overarching theme that people who believe themselves to be righteous are usually unjustified in
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“courage” he is very much a tragic hero, even more so than Hester for many reasons. Two points that I agree with from this article are that Dimmesdale is more of a tragic hero than Hester, and that he’s tragically great because of his confession, although one point that I disagree with is at what point Dimmesdale begins his dark journey. The first reason that I agree with in this article is the claim that Dimmesdale is more of a tragic hero than Hester. In the article Granger writes, “Whereas Dimmesdale’s
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time of fear; fear of sin and a fear of God. Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman of the sixteen hundreds, committed a sin that would leave her with a life of ridicule and guilt. Her life is narrated by a dweller of the eighteenth century, two hundred years after her lifetime. Hester Prynne’s life is told in the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathanial Hawthorne and is stationed in the Puritan town of Boston during the sixteenth century. Prynne, who was sent to America by her husband, was left
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