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History is a play written by the experienced hand of one of Rome’s most noble poets, and for us humans, we are the actors and the universe it our stage. The Homo sapiens species has mastered the x-, y-, and z-dimensions. The next dimension of time lay so far out of our reach that we cannot even snap a picture of it and fathom the whole of it, even with a selfie stick. For the hand of the human reaches out further than it has ever reached before. For when words are spoken, written down, marked unto the tablet of time; they are engraved, impressed, forever affecting the actions and reactions taken by those subsequent. The irreversible dimension of time is an object of pure beauty and hideousness, for you can only look towards the future to correct the past, but …show more content…
It is undecipherable and harder to break the code than the hardest diamond. The past is the past. You mustn't fret on something so cemented in our being, in our universe, as of that of the conception of time. Hester returns home and chooses of her own free will, granted down to her by God Almighty, Himself, to keep wearing the scarlet letter. No one has vexed it unto her soul, except for herself. Her self chose to display this letter on her chest, nay, it is her chest. It has for years ingrained its coding into the genes of her soul. She can not change that she wore this letter ‘A’ on her chest all these years, but she can change what it stands for. In the beginning it stands for what she is, an Adulteress. In the end, it stands for what she is, Able. Her soul has metamorphosised. Like a young butterfly departed its cocoon on a crisp, dew-stricken, spring morning. The human being is an arrogant creature. person sees his main purpose as solidifying his stake in the world and it’s history.

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