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- 251: The Scarlet Letter: Theocracy and Guilt and Punishment
- ... armor in Governor Bellingham’s house. When Hester stared into the mirror-like breastplate, her Scarlet Letter was emphasized through the mirror reflection. This breastplate represents the theocratic society. The puritans, like the shiny armor, made the “A” seem more important than it was. They couldn’t see around the “A” when they looked at her, just as you couldn’t ...
- 252: The Crucible 2
- ... Morgan in his Historicity of The Crucible comments on this question, "It allows us to escape from the painful knowledge that has informed the great religions, knowledge incidentally that the Puritans always kept before them, the knowledge that all of us are capable of evil." He continues, "The glory of human dignity is that any man may show it. The tragedy ...
- 253: The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism of the scarlet letter
- ... Pearl had, we find out that she raises the standards that were previously set for her. She becomes a very rich young woman in England and lives well. Despite the Puritans view, she pulled through and rose above the malevolence that was placed upon her as well as her mother. Pearl herself knew she was above the townspeople and exceeds any ...
- 254: Theocracy and Guilt and Punishment in The Scarlet Letter
- ... armor in Governor Bellingham’s house. When Hester stared into the mirror-like breastplate, her Scarlet Letter was emphasized through the mirror reflection. This breastplate represents the theocratic society. The puritans, like the shiny armor, made the “A” seem more important than it was. They couldn’t see around the “A” when they looked at her, just as you couldn’t ...
- 255: Emily Dickinson
- ... life and adopted the new transcendental outlook. Massachusetts, the state where Emily was born and raised in, before the transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left the people. After all of the "Great Awakenings" and religious revivals the people of New England began to question the old ways ...
- 256: The Scarlet Letter: Arthur - Tragic Hero or Merely Tragic?
- ... Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders; laughing bitterly at himself all the while...It was his custom, too, as it had been that of many other pious Puritans, to fast,--not, however, like them, in order to purify the body and render it the fitter medium of celestial illumination,--but rigorously, and until his knees trembled beneath him ...
- 257: The Young Goodman Brown: Resistance, Acceptance, and Embracing of Evil
- ... and the nature of this late-night rendezvous. The devilish man says to Goodman Brown “I have been well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans (Nathaniel Hawthorn, 198)”. This devilish traveler is implying that Goodman Brown’s family, and the entire Puritan community is not as “pure” as they appear that they might in fact ...
- 258: The Scarlet Letter: Admitted, Hidden & No Guilt
- The Scarlet Letter: Admitted, Hidden & No Guilt Puritans believe that confession is a means of purifying the soul. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, The Scarlet Letter, admitted guilt, such as that of Hester Prynne, who wore a scarlet ...
- 259: Inside the Character’s of The Scarlet Letter
- ... Letter. A magnificent work of literature written by Nathaniel Hawthorn in the 19th century was The Scarlet Letter. This novel explored the dramatic meaning of guilt and sin among the Puritans way of living presented in the 17th century. The main character that was forced to live in sham by displaying an extraordinary gold embroidered letter “A” (referring to adultery) upon ...
- 260: The Crucible: Deteriorated Rational and Emotional Stability of Salem
- ... something to blame the supernatural on. The condemning of Tituba was mainly due to this. When Tituba took the girls into the woods, and they performed their ceremony, something the Puritans were not accustom to, she convicted of witchery. Along with Tituba, Martha Corey was indicted solely because she would not allow Giles to read them. Giles also stated that “I ...
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