Merit, Marriage, and Mistresses Each day, billions of people across the world interact with each other. Many times, it’s on a professional basis in order to conduct day to day business. Other times, relationships are formed out of proclivity towards similar aspects of life in which a friendship is formed. The topic of this essay, however, is based upon the relationships that are cultivated out of feelings of love. These sorts of relationships have fascinated people for centuries. Authors
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expecting any thanks. Never afterwards, does that scarlet letter leave her chest. The townspeople no longer view the letter as a punishment , but rather as representing her great strength and bravery and thy say it means “Able”. But Arthur Dimmesdale, his sin against Hester and Pearl is that he will not acknowledge them as his wife and daughter in the daylight. He keeps his dreadful secret from all those under his care in the church for seven years for fear that he will lose their love and will
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Night by: Elie Wiesel I rarely read a historical novel that captures my attention and immediately intrigues me, however, Night by Elie Wiesel is a novel that did. Elie Wiesel’s novel is about a young Jewish boy named Eliezer who is living in his hometown, Sighet. Eliezer spends a lot of his time studying the first five books of the Old Testament, and the main idea of Jewish mysticism, the Cabbala. Moshe the Beadle is a friend and teacher of Jewish mysticism to Eliezer. Eliezer is very fond of
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can be interpreted in different ways depending on the point of view. In the town Salem, those who take the religion seriously are the representation of “freedom”, but those who oppose the religion are punished and are opposed. At the beginning of “The Scarlet Letter” Hester’s status in Salem is the ideal figure of oppression but within herself she knows she has liberty. On page 61, the dames muttered, “If we stripped madam Hester…I’ll bestow a rag of mine…” This conveys how the dames are jealous
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poisonous nature of deceit is in its most lethal form when one attempts to deceive themselves. Hester Prynne observes this lethal combination of denial through the gradual corruption of Roger Chillingworth and the steady moral and physical atrophy of Dimmesdale. These observations of concealed shame essentially prompt her to understand that the only route to true liberation from the confines of human shame is the path that shuns self deceit. A primary instance of the self deceit that Hester Prynne is subject
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because through out the story they are not acting Christian like one bit. Dimmesale is the biggest hypocrite of them all, he will preach from the bible but does not live by it. Dimmesdale becomes the biggest sinner of them all when he declared himself from the scaffold after he finished his election sermon. “Dimmesdale is irreparably
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refuges. Similarly, Hester is also in a loveless relationship with Roger Chillingworth, a man who sent her to the New World soon after their marriage and did not show up for a while afterwards. With no husband, Hester at last found love in Reverend Dimmesdale, and has an affair with him. As expected in a Puritan society, this was unacceptable and she was publically shamed and sent to the outskirts of town. When her husband did show up, he went on a passionless fit of revenge against the
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either one has to completely accept and to obey the religious belief or he has to disconnect himself from the society. Puritans believe in inevitably destined future, and they think people cannot save him. People are sinner. In the Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale tries to live his life with Puritan system, but he seems unsuccessful. As Natty Bumpoo, who stays outside the box of the unjust Temple, Hester Prynne also rebels against this Puritan system, and she creates her own law. Furthermore Hawthorne totally
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that Chillingworth is indeed her husband. This secret becomes too much for her to bear as it starts to put Mr. Dimmesdale in grave danger. Hester loves Dimmesdale and can clearly see that Chillingworth is attempting to inflict harm upon him. At first, Hester is only suspicious of Chillingworth’s actions towards her lover but as his intentions become clear, she resolves to tell Dimmesdale the truth behind his new doctor’s motives, “Her needlework was seen on the roof of the Governor; military men wore
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little Pearl!' said her mother. 'Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee!'" Chapter 7, pg. 95 She has a different attitude towards Dimmesdale hiding his identity shows her determination and loyalty. She is hoping for his better help and waiting and wishing they can escape to the new land. Hester is a needless lover to Dimmesdale never having demands and just letting things happen when they happen. Hester is nothing but helping and caring for people with less means than her
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