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
It caused deep psychological effects on everyone. Abandonment, even of friend and family members was common. Many devout believers were losing faith in God. In a letter, penned by Italian poet, Francesco Petrarch of Florence, to a friend in Avignon. He expresses his grief at losing close friends, as well as, resentment for an overly vengeful God, who would punish men not only their crimes, but also the crimes of their fathers.
1366 If he heard songs or instruments of music, then would he weep and could not be consoled. So feeble and low and changed were his spirits, that nobody could recognize his speech or his voice even if they heard them. And in his behavior he acted not only as if he had the lover’s sickness of Eros, but rather like madness sprung from melancholy in the cell of imagination in his brain. In short, both the disposition and habits of this woeful lover, lord Arcite, were turned all upside-down. 1379 Why should I describe all day his woe?
Reverend Dimmesdale of course was a sinner too. “‘More misery, Hester! Only the more misery!’ answered the clergyman, with a bitter smile. ‘As concerns the good which I may appear to do, I have no faith in it. It must needs be a delusion.
He is attracted by Daisy’s grace and charm, but blinds her shortcomings. Gatsby reveals himself to be an innocent hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, without the realization that his dreams are unworthy. “He gives Daisy an idealistic perfection
Tom shows when he cheat the devil by saying he is a church goer. “ He prayed loudly strenuously, as if Heaven were taken by force of lungs” (Irving 237). Tom betrays the devil and gets himself killed by doing this in a deceiving manner. Tom makes poor choices that gets himself hurt “...the couple's miserly habits in which they “' conspired to cheat each other” (“overview”). Tom was not a good husband or a good cheater.
The turning point of this chapter would be that Dimmesdale confesses to being Pearls father. But the congregation does not believe him; they think he is just portraying his holiness. As a punishment for his sin Dimmesdale whips himself. What are the chapters ruling images? The ruling images in this chapter are the sorrow and hatred that Dimmesdale has for himself and beating himself with a whip.
Chaucer created a variety of flawed Church officials on this pilgrimage and most are portrayed in a subtle satiric manner, however, the Pardoner is scathingly and sarcastically depicted as a petty, mean, self-serving irredeemable hypocrite. He is morally bankrupt and the exchange with the host at the end indicates the contempt most pilgrims had for him. The film A Simple Plan develops the avarice theme to show how easily the American Dream degenerates into a nightmare when happiness is equated with material wealth “you work for the American Dream, you don’t steal it”. Raimi extends the story into a full length film, set in an iconic small American town, and focuses on the characters of and relationships between the three men, in a retrospective narrative framed by the voiceover of Hank, talking about what constitutes happiness and how one can tell if one is
In the very beginning of the soliloquy Wolsey is depicted with a bitter tone speaking of how “little good” the court had done for him. He goes on to describe the stages of one’s downfall; which in this case is symbolic to the changes of seasons and the sequence in which they take place and then proceeds to elaborate his dreary tone by speaking of his lack of depth and high blown pride that now must be hidden. The shift in Wolsey’s tone happens dramatically when he claims the world to be something in which contains glory and vanity and states that he “[hates] ye!” This phrase alone depicts Wolsey’s hostility and complex feelings. He later quickly shifts to a tone which contains one of self pity by calling himself a “wretched” man that does by the monarchy. The use of shifts in tones varying throughout the soliloquy reflects Cardinal Wolsey’s struggle to cope with such shocking news.
Before Dimmesdale kills himself, he admits his sin to the whole town. Also, Dimmesdale receives treatment from Hester’s husband, Chillingworth, who knows their secret, and is trying to get revenge on them both. Chillingworth ends up realizing that he is going insane with trying to get revenge and believes that he has sinned more than both of them. The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses satire to poke fun of the Puritan attitude toward sinning and the punishments of sinning. The reader learns from the text that the Puritan religion looked down on the idea of sin and punishes sinners harshly.