His love for her was also a huge distraction from what truly was important. Lieutenant Cross shows shame and fear. His love for Martha distracted him so much that Ted Lavender, a soldier in his platoon, died under his watch. O’Brien states, “He felt shame. He hated himself.
He sat in jail with Hester and made her promise to keep their marriage a secret. There was nothing he wanted more than to see this man dead. “In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man’s faculty of transforming himself into a devil.” Dimmesdale, a man looked at with much respect by the townspeople, asserts his evil in many forms. He watches the woman he loves and his daughter live in shame and does nothing to help, which shows “the portion of him which the devil claimed, and through which he sought to win the rest.” Dimmesdale was the town minister who was supposed to represent the good things God gives us. But, he was said to be a servant of the “Black Man.” He watched Hester stand on the scaffold holding their child, with a scarlet letter embroidered on her clothing for all to see, alone.
He states, “For whom I should be hanged.” This shows that e is unhappy of the truth and how sick it makes him feel. It tells the audience that he doesn’t have much to live for anymore and that he just wants to be gone where his voice can’t be heard. He also states, “My load is mine, don’t fear; no man could bear so much.” In other words, the immediate reaction he gives is that no one can go through the pain and suffering that he had to deal with and how much it can degrade yourself. Oedipus strongest use of rhetoric is symbolism that is to have significant meaning. He states.
Wiesel starts to blame God for the misdoing he has posed on him especially since he was a devout worshiper. This soon turns into Elie completely rejecting God and doubting his entire existence. For most of us, at first glance, this seems extremely harsh and irrational but I too would feel this way. Wiesel put his heart and soul into the loving of God and he felt as if he was betrayed. “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.” In the book, many literary terms are used to depict the silence portrayed through many characters.
He immediately assumes that the plague has come to punish the sinners of Oran. He says “you” instead of “we” in his first sermon, signifying that the plague is the sinners problem not his own. He preaches that everyone will suffer and he actually frightens people instead of comforting them. He is basically telling the people to become self reliant because no one is going to be there to help. After his first sermon Rambert was so disturbed by the priest’s words that he tried to escape the town.
He lived with his troubles and was distressed by the thoughts of his sin on a daily basis throughout his life. In The Scarlet Letter, concealed sin took a great affect on Arthur Dimmesdale through his ministry role, physical well being, and through his agonized soul. Truly, Dimmesdale's ministerial status has a considerable influence on his concealed sin. "People say, said another, 'that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor, takes it very grievously to his heart that such a scandal has come upon his congregation" (Hawthorne 178). He is constantly put on a pedestal, "the agony with which this public veneration tortured him.
Who The Pardoner Really Is By Jeremy Ford 3/11/2008 4th period English 4 Thesis His actions, words and the irony of his story show who he really is and what he believes. Outline The Pardoner is one of the most evil of the characters in the Canterbury tales. He deceives and manipulates people and is not at all respected by others. His actions, words, and irony of the story show who he really is and what he believes. He is considered part of the low end of the church.
Hooper’s congregational responds to his black veil with distress and confusion. The veil instills an irrational fear into the congregation’s once rational mindset and perception of Mr. Hooper. We learn that “there was a feeling of dread, neither plainly confessed, nor carefully concealed,” spread among the congregation as a whole (26). The veil becomes a mysterious symbol for Mr. Hooper’s church members; it is abnormal and unnatural in their eyes, just as the birthmark is to Aylmer. Although Hawthorne is again somewhat ambiguous, the text suggests that Mr. Hooper’s veil is meant to symbolize the inherent sin that lies inside him (as well as the congregation).
Townspeople often called Pearl a demon child because of her absurd behavior. Hester believes that Pearl was sent to her from God as a gift of joy and, oppositely, utter torture. When they both go to the governor’s mansion, the men gathered there ask Pearl to answer the simple question “Who made you” and Pearl couldn’t even do this simple task. The men took this as she has been exposed to the devil and doesn’t know God personally even though Hester says she teaches her Christianity and its’ values. Even though she
I heard many things in hell.” Through his denial of the hold lunacy has on him, the Narrator establishes the very nature of his madness. His contradictions’ such as denial of being afflicted by the disease, then the very next thought is to defend the nature of the illness by praising it for moulding his senses is evidence towards his increasing madness and the inevitable doom of the Narrator. The Mad Man’s seemingly unprovoked rage towards the Old Man is blamed upon his dead, hazy eye. The Narrator in a fit of Madness trying to explain his actions, claims his motivation; “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture – a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold: and so by degrees – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” The Narrator again proves his madness through his apparent lack of solid intent coupled with his explanation of the rage within him.