Maya Stephenson Chapter 5 “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once been innocent, —as the figure, the body, the reality of sin.”(54) Most people think that sin is an abstract concept. But this quote shows that in the Puritan community sin is very real. It also says that every town needs a scapegoat and Hester is the scape goat for her community. The people focus their attention on Hester’s problems instead of working out their issues. The townspeople look at Hester and think about how she used to be pure before she committed her sin.
Hester Prynne's Repression Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, is the story of a young woman, who is an obvious member of the Puritan society. We see in the beginning, that after committing adultery with a minister, Hester unintentionally bores a child into this small, oppressive Puritan society in the mid 1600's. In the beginning, Hester Prynne, is repressed by her community when she is forced to wear the letter “A” relating her commitment of adultery with Minister Dimmadale, but soon after her acceptance of the sin; she embraces the letter, and changes the meaning of her scarlet letter “A” for Adultery to an "A" for Able, and becomes an active member in the oppressive Puritan society. Although many say that Hester was repressed by her community, she stayed stong and became a rather social member of society eventhough her sin was looked down upon by many of the members of her community. Hester became a great aid to the community, by often socializing in her job of needlework.
Lorrie Meade LITR225 11/25/11 Final Research Paper “The Scarlett Letter” begins in a Puritan settlement in seventeenth century Boston, with a young lady named Hester Prynne. Led from the town prison with the scarlet letter on her breast and daughter, Pearl, in her arms. Pearl is a character that represents many symbols. Pearl is portrayed as quiet from the start but makes us aware of Hester’s passion, sin, and personifies her adulterous act. Given her symbolic purpose, at the end she becomes human, leaving in the past the representation of her mother and father.
Learned behavior from past situations and experiences, we today have learned hopefully for the good to better deal with these situations or problems when they occur. Examples that show the guilt in the story are what the characters learned from the experiences and how they acted whether positively or negatively. One example is when Chillingworth found out that Dimmesdale was Hester’s secret lover and used all of his power to make his life difficult. Another example is when Dimmesdale came clean on the scaffold and can now rest in peace. Yet another example is that Hester Prynne became a stronger woman.
The emphasis is to clarify and offer help, and the tone is spiritual, optimistic, creative and easy to understand. Judy Tatelbaum provides excellent advice on how to help oneself and others get through the immediate experience of death and the grief that follows, as well as how to understand the special grief of children. Particularly useful are the techniques for completing or "finishing" grief--counteracting the popular misconception that grief never ends. The Courage to Grieve shows us how to live life with the ultimate courage: not fearing death. This book is about so much more than death and grieving it is about life and joy and
After reading A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi, the reader gains knowledge of the Salem Witch Trials through a young woman who experienced the commotion first hand. The book describes the accusers, the accused and why they were accused, while giving the reader insight on the emotion that spread through Salem as the trials unfolded. The Salem Witch Trials began among a group of eight girls aged 11 to 20. Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam were the “ringleaders” of the group and were the first to fall into illness. Under this “illness” they moaned and shrieked for no reason, groveled and writhed and began to act as animals.
You feel bad for them, or you just want it to get better so you allow them to end their life which to some is believed to be immoral. I believe that Care Ethics would answer back by saying that by allowing their emotions to guide them they are doing what is moral and what is best for the one they love. They could also argue that their emotions allowing someone to take their own life is giving that person the autonomy they deserve. By caring about them you want them to have all of the rights they should have, and you don’t want to see them suffer so you let them
At the beginning of Hester’s story, she is led out of the jail into the town square wearing the red letter “A” and holding her daughter. The people in the square were expecting her to be broken up about the fact that she was to be shamed in front of the whole town. However, the townspeople saw that she held herself in a regal and gracious manner, like upper class ladies of that time. According to the narrator, she had never appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison (Hawthorne, 2008, p. 40). Hester did not want to be identified as weak so she kept her head held high and did not let them see that she was affected by the situation.
The Yellow Wallpaper By the end of the “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator lets her surroundings, the wallpaper, and her husband John, get the best of her. John treats the narrator as if she were a child and takes away her right to choose and decide how she feels; this eventually leads to her defeat. After being treated like a child and put in a room that is barred up, she develops problems which eventually lead to paranoia and insanity. Both paranoia and insanity eventually lead her to believe that she is the woman who has escaped from the yellow wallpaper. From the very beginning of the story, problems are brought up that hint toward the defeat of Jane.
The author introduces an image of guilt and shame through the description of Hester as she appears from the darkness of the prison to the dazzling light of the day. Hawthorne describes Hester by saying, “In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm,