The audience is able to feel sympathy with Dante, the character, because he shows many emotions that the readers would also possess if they were in his position. For instance, Dante feels pity for a small number of the sinners in the poem. That is one of Dante's effective ways of creating connection and trust with the reader. After learning that the first sinners he met are in Hell because they are not baptized, he claims that "...great sadness seized..." his heart (canto IV). The audience can also relate to him because he feels anger towards the sinners who sinned dreadfully.
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.
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.
He tries to accomplish his goal by hiding his sin but is distressed because of his pursuit of what he believes to- be happiness. Towards the end of the play his struggles eventually end in his downfall. His courage to stand strong in his beliefs leads him to death at the gallows. His personal struggle with Elizabeth is resolved as he makes his decision to refuse to confess to witchcraft. Elizabeth sees his inner goodness shine when he refuses to lie about being involved in witchcraft, and she realizes how unfair she has been.
One of Edwards more effective strategies was to paint a picture through words of the horrific nature and eternal suffering for souls that went “unsaved”. He really reached his audience effectively by using graphic descriptions to describe the torture that awaited sinners in hell. Even though the concept of hell seems so far fetched and unreal, Edwards delivery of his sermon scares his listeners into believing what he is saying, thus prompting them to follow his step by step plan for them to be saved. Later into his sermon, Edwards paints a beautiful picture of god dangling sinners above the fiery volcano known as hell. But just when you think there’s no way out of this ill-fated encounter with fire, Edwards shows his congregation the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and explains that through gods mercy and forgiveness one could be saved.
It becomes clear that Hamlet did truly love Ophelia, yet hid it because he was a coward. The “ White Lie” is not only depicted through Hamlet denying his love but also putting a front up for the selfish betterment of his life style. After his outrageous lecture on self worth that Hamlet gives Ophelia, she grows incredibly mad, which ultimately leads to her death. Although the intentions of his lecture were clearly to hurt Ophelia and gain power over her, once he realizes she is dead he feels the need to express his actual love for her. His change of attitude grows confusing as he professes his dear love after her awful death, “ I loved Ophelia.
He likes being in love, but he does not like the thought of love and finds it confusing. He is talking about love when he says, “Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel that feel no love in this" (1.3.184-187). Romeo is talking in paradoxes; he does this to emphasize that love is confusing.
Essay: Frankenstein's rejection of his monster can be interpreted to be a representation of man being ironically disgusted at sin - his own sin. Frankenstein can be likened to a man who has condemned fornication in public, but he keeps going to motels and sex clubs in secret. What Frankenstein created in his monster is in one way a mirror of his own soul. The story shows that whatever the monster does is Frankenstein's responsibility, and it in a way mirrors Frankenstein's own deterioration of his humanity. Perhaps Frankenstein's fear at seeing his monster's eyes open was a fear of himself, his own faults.
“ I will cause fear....do I swear inextinguishable hatred....I will work at your destruction....you shall curse the hour of your birth....fiendish rage animated him ”. (Pages 133 and 134 Lines 32-3) Between these two passages, it is seen that the creature is loving and evil at the same time. The creature was made to love and to be able to have feelings just as a human being; despite this, he ultimately chooses the path of evil instead of good. To pick a life of evil instead of good is terrible. This further shows that the wretch is a monster because a life full of revenge and evil is
The concept of trying to perfect your godliness is punishable by God, just as being Greedy or Stingy with money, acting out in heresy, or even harming yourself by committing suicide, an action harming God’s creation. All of these actions taken by humans are seen as sins by God punishable by the perfection of his justice. In the “Inferno”, Dante goes on a journey through hell to get to heaven and throughout the journey he realized that God’s justice has been perfected to symbolize and embody the punishments deserved by those who sinned. According to Medieval beliefs, when the Judgment day comes, sinners souls will be reunited with their bodies, rendering them more whole or perfect. Thus, as more perfect beings are subjected to Hell’s torment, their pain will only intensify.