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181: The Scarlet Letter: Women Liberation
... I think her attempt to establish an honest relationship with other human beings was a great attempt and somewhat successful. By her actions to not totally isolate herself from the Puritans, it showed her honesty and respect for others.
182: The Scarlet Letter: Physical and Psychological Effects and Consequences of Adultry
... can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom. ”So unusual is her behavior that she is often referred to in such terms as “elf child,” “imp, ”and even some puritans believe that she is a “demon offspring.” With all these situations, Pearl was severely punished just for being born. Her mother never really disciplined her either. Pearl would often throw ...
183: The Scarlet Letter: Letters from the Heart
... in any society may face. Granted, the average individual is not forced to wear our sins for all to see, nor are we punished in the same manner that the puritans were. However, we do carry our sins inside, where we can see them. Perhaps, the reader might see this piece as an attempt to bring out the good in some ...
184: Diverse Cultures In The Foundi
... So on to the New World. Now there obviously is a rainbow of religion. Pietists, Mennonites, Amish, Dunkards, Moravians, Deists, Quakers, etc. We could go on. Don’t forget the Puritans. In the colonies, congregational churches dominated New England while Anglicans were prevalent in Virginia. Quakers settled in Pennsylvania and Catholics in both Maryland and Pennsylvania. The development of our country ...
185: The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Alienation
... paranoia which leads to her hopelessness, loss of faith and further separation from her community. Though Hester remains physically in the town, she is as good as invisible to the Puritans and she feels she haunts the town like a ghost. She has lost faith in her own tangibility. She stands apart "...like a ghost that… can no longer make itself ...
186: How Social Tensions Led To Wit
... of the Parson was out of the ordinary. Consequently, when Mary accuses Widow Marshfield of witchcraft for an unknown reason, it seriously damaged the Parsons social reputation – something that the Puritans took very seriously (Hall 29). From then on, suspicions and lack of trust started to be associated with the Parsons. Accusations of witchcraft often followed arguments that would increase the ...
187: The Scarlet Letter: Dimmersdale is a Coward and a Hypocrite
... to make his last, valiant leap to reach Him, and then snatched him at the apex of his pathetic trajectory. Dimmesdale is redeemed, but, it would seem, conditionally. If the Puritans believed in a Purgatory, Dimmesdale would be there. However, with only a Heaven and Hell, Dimmesdale must be admitted into Heaven, grudgingly. Hawthorne writes, "According to these highly respectable witnesses ...
188: Silas Manner
... apart their marriage. Silas Manner's story is one of redemption in this also is a fairy tale. Silas's story starts off in lantern yard a small village of Puritans Silas is best known not for being a weaver but for his "fits" in which he freezes and does not move . He is engaged to a young woman in the ...
189: Ronald Takaki A Different Mirr
... in order to progress in the settling of our land. “God was making room for the colonists and hath hereby cleared our title to this place” (Takaki, 40). The early Puritans believed that they were meant to spread their religion and beliefs across the entire land. The killing of Indians for this purpose could then be justified by they were doing ...
190: The Scarlet Letter: A Review
... me, at least interest me. But I was not. The first problem that I saw was the setting. I am not terribly interested with the time period of settlers and Puritans; in fact, there seems to be a wave of interest on a time line for me: I love medieval settings, my interest drops down, comes back up through present times ...


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