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Response to The Scarlet LetterConfess thy truth and thou shall have eternal rest. I belive that is the moral to be taught in this novel of inspirational love, yet a novel of much sorrow. The impossible became possible in The Scarlet Letter, a story set back in the Puritan Times. In this response, I will…

The Nuremberg TrialsThe Nuremberg TrialsThe Nuremberg trial was built up to be the trial of the century. In the word’s of Norman Birkett, who served as a British alternate judge: it was “the greatest trial in history” . The four most intriguing characters of this trial were of vast contradiction to each other; there was…

Beauty is something that a lot of people in life strive for, because everyone has fitted in their mind what exactly beauty is. People know that it can help you out in life. But what most people don’t know is that, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Meaning that beauty should not be…

In Adams fall, we sinned all. This old Sunday-school saying applies well to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s characters in The Scarlet Letter. The main characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, as well as the townspeople, all sinned. The story is a study of the effects of sin on the hearts and minds of Hester, Dimmesdale, and…

I. Biographical Insights A. The culture this great author was a part of was thetime in American history where inspiring works of literature began to emerge. Itwas also a time when American writers had not completely separated its literaryheritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius’flourishing there. B. Herman Melville was born on…

Ignorance is seen every day in our lives. Even people in the 1850s were aware of it. Ignorance is defined as being uneducated or resulting from a lack of knowledge. However, it can be taken to extremes. There is complete ignorance where a person thinks that even though they do not understand everything, they still…

The Hemingway Hero Prevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway’s novels is the concept popularly known as the “Hemingway hero”, an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a “man’s man”. In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett Ashley,…

Character Analysis : DimmesdaleDimmesdale is one of the most intriguing characters in The Scarlet Letter. I think this because he demonstrates in this story that he is a coward, and that he is strong, yet not courageous. Dimmesdale proves that he is a cowardice individual many times in The Scarlet Letter. He does this by…

ImageryThe cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out onthe hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began totremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growingfrom long troughs of liquid mud…

st unjust verdicts imposed in the world’s history. Socrates was merely a radical thinker in a transitional time in Athens, and after Athens lost the Peloponnesian War to Sparta, Socrates’ principles were just not tolerated. Roman westward expansion and militant domination had yet to happen, as did the trial and death of Jesus Christ. The…