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Power of SinIn The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne presents three main characters that commit evil and sinful acts, where each act is at a different degree of sinfulness. These three sinners (in the eyes of the Puritan community) are: the beautiful Hester Prynne, the esteemed Reverend Dimmesdale, and the cold-hearted doctor Roger Chillingworth. Hawthorn believes…

            Robert Frost’s 1914 poem “Mending Wall” is less about an actual wall than about the divisions between people, and how civil relations with one’s neighbors depend heavily on how they mutually define their space and work to maintain the separation.             The context is rural New England; indeed, Frost spend much of his life…

The novel was written as a historical fiction and romance tome, but it holds immense symbolic significance as well. The most familiar symbols found in the novel are the scarlet letter, the town scaffold, the meteor, Pearl, and the rosebush next to the prison door, but probably the most recognizable of those are the scarlet…

“Chronometer” to designate the Spatial-Temporal matrix, which governs the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts. The term itself can be literally translated as “Time-space”. The term is developed in Backhand’s essay, “Forms of Time and Chronometer In the Novel”. Baking in his essay says that “a literary work’s artistic unity in relationship…

The central theme of A Doll’s House by Ibsen is the emancipation of women, which is evident throughout the play. Ibsen explores the theme of women’s emancipation by highlighting the issues stemming from a doll-like marriage. In Act I, various hints suggest the dynamics of Nora and Torvald’s relationship. Nora appears to be a puppet…

The central message of Lord of the Flies is that human beings do not naturally possess a moral nature. All individuals have the potential for evil within them, and their moral principles are merely superficial. However, it is crucial for individuals to uphold their moral integrity in order to behave ethically, maintain societal order, and…

In the novel. Misery. Stephen King embodies the province of ownership by an evil being who happens to be the detailed and horrifically psychotic adult female. Annie Wilkes. In this narrative. Annie represents a female parent figure. a goddess and a loyal reader of the love affair novelist. Paul Sheldon. In world. nevertheless. Annie simply…

Prejudice has caused the pain and suffering of others for manySome examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the UnitedStates. In to Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee racism was the cause ofmuch agony to the blacks of a segregated South. Along with blacks, othergroups of people are judged unfairly just because of…

Hero’s Journey basically defines itself. You may think that there is no meaning behind the words “Hero’s Journey”. Though there is a whole other meaning to this, the main important stages are The Ordinary World, Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Quest, Accepting the Call, Entering the Unknown, Supernatural Help, Talisman, Allies/Helpers, Tests, Supreme Ordeal,…

The Salem Witch Trials, which were depicted in Arthur Miller’s book “The Crucible,” were driven by corruption and gullibility, resulting in panic and fear in Salem. The story revolves around a group of girls led by Abigail, who engage in dancing in the woods. Their activities were discovered by Abigail’s uncle, Samuel Parris, who is…