In a grand demonstration of his cowardice he says, "Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life. What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him--yea, compel him, as it were--to add hypocrisy to sin? "(Hawthorn 49). His extreme cowerdice led him to attack Hester publically atop thee scaffold along with Governor Bellingham and Reverend Wilson. He let Hester be judged solely by her effect on the two men implicated in the adulterous triangle, and be shamed and alienated from the rest of the community, while Dimmesdale, himself, was becoming more popular and admired
Creon is sorry for what he was done, he repents, but it is already too late. He only finds true justice when everything he cared for was gone. Creon’s tragic flaw was that he was resolute; he did not want Polynieces to be buried. He received multiple warnings that this would lead to his downfall. He was put into the position of King.
Tim Winton also demonstrates an antithesis between the present and the future, where people in a relationship are morally obliged to give up their future plans for the short-term pleasure of companionship. This is illustrated when he switches from the present to the future tense; “I’m laughing. I’m kicking the dash…I’ll never be able to tell him about the hopes I had for myself…” Therefore, Tim Winton employs the stream of consciousness and antithesis to depict the sacrifices of friendship and its moral repercussions. Winton uses foreshadowing and symbolism to show the fragility of friendship and its eventual demise. The burning kite that the narrator views above serves as a precursor to the termination of his relationship with Biggie.
Dimmesdale is now “considered by his more fervent admirers as a little less than a heaven-oriented apostle” (109). It saddens Dimmesdale that people are losing faith in him, because of the transformation of becoming torpid towards his profession as a reverend. As Dimmesdale felt worse about himself, the townspeople thought that “if Mr. Dimmesdale were to die, it was cause, that the world [is] not worthy to be any longer trodden by his feet” (109). The townspeople still thinks highly of Reverend Dimmesdale and they all knew that if he were to die, there would be no hesitation of him going to
John Donne on the other hand is known world wide for his brilliant expertise in poetry and prose. 4. Both poets had the same view of poetry but had completely different life styles, this shows the diversity and power of poetry. II. A.
Unknown Darkness To write about things nobody likes to talk about or even mention in real life makes Nathaniel Hawthorne a great poet and a famous one at that. Hawthorne wrote so much about the American Colonies and how they lived their lives, he captured the smallest details of that time. Imagine being a writer in those times trying to find things to write about, in some of his poems you can see what a morbid mind he had, and it’s possibly due to his environment. Some of his Ancestors were direct descendants of Puritan judges. Which might have influenced his all famous “Scarlet Letter” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, both these poems evoke each readers own personal judgments on human nature.
There were many great writers in the early 1800s, such as Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, but each had many special qualities. These special qualities were sometimes similar throughout all of the writers, and some were very different. The main differences were split with writers such as Poe and Hawthorne, in the “Prophets of Darkness� and others were mostly “Prophets of Promise.� The main similarity between all transcendental writers in the early 1800s, is they preached the power of the individual As obviously seen just from the name, the Prophets of Darkness were often more on a negative or sad subject.
While one may believe there are individuals who are the utmost holy and divine like, Hawthorne would fail to agree with this opinion. We are repeatedly burdened with Hawthorne's idea that we are helpless, imperfect beings who cannot help but sin and make wrong choices. Along with this point, Hawthorne believes that we are unable own up to the wrongs that we make and consciously choose to keep our sins buried within ourselves. Taking these thoughts to consideration, one should reflect upon these ideas and beliefs in high hopes of separating themselves from sin as much as our nature will
“The law can never save us; and he is nearest to the forgiveness of the gospel who, with a contrite heart, discerns most clearly and feels most profoundly that perfection of the Divine statute which impeaches and condemns him.” Is public punishment really required to feel penitent for your sin? To feel penitent you must express humble or regretful pain or sorrow for the sins or offenses you have committed. This is a very controversial issue between the government and those governed under its laws, the general public. Many people in today's government feel that public punishment isn't required for one to feel penitent for the sin they've committed. However, in a Puritan society, the view on punishment in relation to sin would have been very
In the Odyssey he is constantly being tested by the gods as well as loved by them. Without knowing it he constantly is writing his name into the history books we read today. If he had simply been a soldier or farmer we wouldn’t know of how loyal and courageous Odysseus actually was. Many writers, and dramatists all had their own ways to interpret this man of many turns. Odysseus had many chances where he could have been given great glory but would just let other’s have the glory.