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Captain Ahab And Roger Chillingworth
827 wordsAntitranscendentalists Do you know anyone who is destroying themselves and others by their actions? If so this person is an anti transcendentalist. Anti transcendentalism is a literary term to describe a character's potential to do harm to themselves. Along with bringing harm to himself or killing himself, he usually brings harm to others in one form or another. Another characteristic of an anti transcendentalist character is that there is usually signs or clues that tell the character that he i...
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Chillingworth Turns Inhuman Torturing Dimmesdale
1,601 wordsIf a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, did it make a sound This saying brings me to my thesis of "Guilt Without Confession leads to Great Consequences in The Scarlet Letter". If a character does something wrong but no one knows, that character can both gain and lose from what they have done. This happens multiple times in The S caret Letter. Characters commit evil deeds, some are caught, some are not. For those that aren't caught, they have a decision to make. To turn thems...
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Rev Mr Dimmesdale
342 wordsRoger ChillingworthRoger Chillingworth was a cruel wicked man, full of bitterness, and hatred. At one time he was also a very intelligent man. He was once a man who was very civilized and respected. He came from England, and was captured by the Indians. From this experience he learned to concoct all kinds of different herbs and medicines to help sickness. When he escaped from the Indians, he went to the colony where his wife was supposed to be waiting for him. He found her with a child from anot...
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Chillingworth As The Greatest Sinner
918 wordsSin is considered something highly immoral, a despicable act that defies divine law. Anyone who commits a sin is regarded as a serious offender of that which is pure. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne left it to the reader to determine who was the real wrongdoer in the novel. Was it the adulterous Hester Prynne, or the hypocritical Arthur Dimmesdale, or the revenge obsessed Roger Chillingworth? Puritan belief tells us it should be Hester Prynne, because she was a weak-willed ...
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John Proctor And Hester Pryne
700 wordsThe test of a courageous person is the ability to bear defeat without losing heart. This happens when a person is challenged with an overwhelming obstacle that is immposible to defeat, but when overcome the person still emerges with his dignity. Two works that illustrate this are the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller and the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is possible not to overcome an obstacle and still manage to be victorious. This is true for John Proctor a Puritan from ...
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Dimmesdale And Hester
2,118 wordsThe Scarlet Letter study guide questions: Chapters 13-24. Zack Phillips IX. Chapter Thirteen 1. "the iron link of mutual crime". 2. Seven years have passed. 3. They say that the "A" stands for "Able" 4. I think that Hester and Dimmesdale will get back together, soon. 5. - 6. - 7. Hester now sees Chillingworth as equal or lower to her because of his disturbing obsession with revenge. Seven years ago her shame was so great and her self-esteem was so low that she found it difficult to openly commun...
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Prynne And Pearl And The Physician Chillingworth
4,687 words+ ENGLISH AP: Scarlett Letter + The Scarlet Letter A Reading Log by Brandon Moeller English AP Fisher-7 8/7/96 CHAPTER 1- The Prison-Door- I found this one page introductory chapter to be very dramatic as it explained the history of the colony by telling the history of the prison-door. From the looks of this chapter, this story will probably be dragged out as much as possible. At first I thought the way Nathaniel Hawthorne approached the latter half of the last paragraph was annoying, but when I...
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Solitary Name Within The Scarlet Letter
644 wordsHawthorne. Hawthorne. Visibly names are of importance to Nathaniel Hawthorne as evident in the "w" placed within his own to disassociate himself from his great great grandfather, a Salem judge. So, it would be logical to say that he took the naming of characters in his literary piece, The Scarlet Letter, into serious consideration: Chillingworth. Dimmesdale. Pearl. At nothing more than a glimpse at these names, one can make vague assumption about the character behind the name. A name is a coveri...
