Death in the story doesn’t seem to embody the idea of the Grim Reaper but rather the opposite. She isn’t threatening or evil where as the popular conception of death are threatening, evil and an ominous figure. In the story when Death is introduced by the servant, he establishes that she is a woman by saying “I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned it was Death that jostled me” (Maugham 1). She doesn’t seem threatening and intense as represented by the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper usually is a male that doesn’t show his identity because he hides under a dark robe.
3. “Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!” whispered her mother. “We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.” This quote, also from chapter 22 is important because it shows that what happens in the woods is sort of a dream or a thought fo fantasy and could not be accepted by the Puritan people of the market place. This quote is important to me because since Pearl is very little and has much to learn, hester puts her in her place by saying what was right and what was wrong. 4.
This shows that Crabbe has respect for Mary’s Privacy, but he did wonder what was in that bag. “There’s very private … stuff… in that pack. You must promise me you’ll never look into it” (Pg. 76)This quote shows Mary upset about the pack and making Crabbe promise to never look in the pack means that is really important to her , It would hurt her a lot if he look into that pack
For some characters, conventional properties are something they care little for, but instead re driven solely by concern for others. Elinor Mompellion is a prime example of this along with Michael Mompellion and Anna Frith. But not all characters fall into this category, Colonel Bradford is one who lives by conventional properties and cares not for anyone but himself. Elinor Mompellion’s desire to help those in need is so overwhelming that the she cares little for conventional properties. Her concern for others is evident in the novel when she ventures to the empty Gowdie cottage in search for herbs and knowledge that may help extinguish the plague.
A bell rings to tell you when to go to bed and when to get up. That would make me angry. I’m sure that no one in that society was happy. If I was Equality 7-251, I would take the Golden One, as he named her, and go as far as I could into the uncharted forest and take my chances. If she won’t go with him, I would rather live alone in the woods, then to be told what to do with every second of my day and not able to express yourself intellectually or in any way.
“She would never feel at home with the hakujin”. As Hatsue and Ishmael part Gutterson uses the woods once again “a March stillness had seized everything - the trees, the rotting deadwood, the leafless vine maple, the stones littering the ground.” The use of the bleak setting reveals the decaying relationship. As Hatsue was influenced by her family and culture, she accepts that her love for Ishmael can no longer exist. She goes on to declare this to Ishmael, “everything appears to be different from what it was when I was with you on San Piedro” “I don’t love you
Hawthorne allows the reader to discover how great the puritans were. For example, “Hester Prynne, therefore, did not flee. On the outskirts of town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage… In this little, lonesome dwelling, with some slender means that she possessed, and by the license of magistrates, who still kept and inquisitorial watch over her…” This just proves to the audience that Hawthorne uses his language to express his love for the puritans because Hester had to learn her lesson by being embarrassed in public by everyone and anyone, which would cause her to leave their society and move somewhere else. But instead Hester stayed and had to deal with the punishment but on top of that had to be basically what we would say “shunned” by society as a whole. She had to move away with her child, Pearl to someone’s abandoned house and live in loneliness with her child.
So we go back to an observation made by the author on page 439 ie; "Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least". Could it be that the wharf is the route by which the patients arrive and leave, for the sake of
She is the one that is the most guilty of commiting sins and not following the word of God. First she sneaks her cat on the trip even though she knows deep within her heart that her son Bailey, “wouldn’t like to arrive at the motel with a cat”(332). The grandmother also lies to the children about a secret panel that is in a house along the way to Florida. She does this to merely fulfill her own desire to go and see this plantation house. After a while of riding on the bumpy road to this house she realizes that this is not the road and that the house is in Tennesse but she keeps it to herself so that she can avoid “Bailey’s wrath”(336).
Aunt Hester went out one night,—where or for what I do not know,—and happened to be absent when my master desired her presence. He had ordered her not to go out evenings, and warned her that she must never let him catch her in company with a young man, who was paying attention to her belonging to Colonel Lloyd. The young man’s name was Ned Roberts, generally called Lloyd’s Ned. Why master was so careful of her, may be safely left to conjecture. She was a woman of noble form, and of graceful proportions, having very few equals,