(personification) | "...his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it." (pg106) | This is an example of metaphor because Hawthorne is comparing Mr. Dimmesdale's voice to a prophecy and gives it a depressing tone. (metaphor) | "...while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves." (pg116) | Here "hearts" symbolizes the consciousness of not only sinners in general, but that of Dimmesdale's conscious which we know has been marred or at least should have been marred by the adultery he committed with Hester. (metaphor) | "... was admirably adapted to Pearl's beauty, and made her the very brightest little jet of flame that ever danced upon the earth."
At the beginning of the novel, when speaking of Jim, Huck says: Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got so stuck up on account of having seen the devil. He says this because he believes Jim has gotten stuck up due to receive attention from other quote ‘niggers’. One major example of Huck slowly overcoming his racism was depicted in chapter 15. The fog, in this chapter, was a physical barrier that represented Hucks mental obstacle, the one where he thought it was ok to use Jim, as a form of entertainment. It is in this chapter when Huck overcomes this barrier as he says, ‘I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way’.
When he finally confessed and his life looked like it was about to get better, God abruptly ended his time on the earth. Hester Prynne was almost shunned by everyone, even the sunshine. Her daughter, Pearl, was constantly saying things to Hester that would cause her pain. Another man, whose life was damaged by the sin, was Dr. Roger Chillingworth. He was not part of the sin, but still suffered from it.
Therefore, The Glass Menagerie supported the interpretation of the quote of how people respond to adversity negatively. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini also supports the idea that adversity brings out the best or worst in people. For example, in this novel, when Amir, one of the main characters, was faced with adversity he responded to it negatively. Amir had witnessed his loyal servant, Hassan get raped and didn’t do anything about it. Amir dealt with adversity by repeatedly betraying Hassan again and again.
Antigone’s pride came from her respect for her family and honoring the gods and their divine law, while Creon’s pride was an arrogant trait. Tiresias, the blind prophet claims Creon will lose his family for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied. Creon later realizes his mistaken pride. For example, “Fate has brought all of my pride to a thought of dust (Creon, Exodus).” This quote reveals that Tiresias’ prophecy or fate had portrayed Creon’s downfall, yet still filled with pride, refused to admit to his wrong doing. After Creon’s family’s deaths, Creon’s pride crumbles as he realizes he was wrong in his actions.
Emma Patrick Mrs. Reitz Honors English II 22 November 2010 (Critical Analysis Final Draft) The Unbearable Guilt Guilt is a mental obsession with the idea of having done wrong. Guilt has more control over some people, than it does to others. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an infinite amount of guilt is expressed. Both Arthur and Hester are forced to cope with their living guilt in different, yet interesting ways. Within Arthur’s coward self lies his guilt, and openly, lies Hester’s guilt.
His sole yet estranged sister Barbara admits that she and Perry ‘shared a doom against which virtue was no defence’, destined from the very beginning by the nature of their circumstances to rebel against the orthodox path. In this rather selective presentation of key events in Smith’s life readers become more lenient to his plight as we excuse his heinous crimes for the
ISP Essay: The lies that grew and grew. Jacqueline Diep ENG4U-03 Ms.Simpson December 20, 2011 *Change those huge spaces between some paragraphs and get rid of the period after the quote and keep the period after the bracket. In the essay, “The Way we Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson, Stephanie is able to tell us the different type of lies that are being told around the world and in books. Back in the days, minorities were unable to speak for themselves, and when they were able to speak for themselves, the higher up spoke of them as mischievous people. The small lies that were being told create such an empowerment issue to those minorities who are looking bad.
The common conclusion is that his melancholy was triggered by the death of his father and his mother’s flighty love; however Harold Bloom suggests that Hamlet never had a close enough relationship with either to have been truly affected by them. This leaves matters such as why Hamlet accepted the mission to be wholly unexplained. Bloom highlights the fact that Hamlet only speaks of fond memories for Yorick knowing him as “…a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy…” (V.I.169. ), starkly omitting any mention of affections by way of his true father. This exemplifies Hamlet’s lack of empathy when the ghost appeared before him
You see I found I'm human, and prone to make mistakes, but God's love is unconditional, he'll give you what it takes. If God himself forgives and loves a tortured soul like mine, Why shouldn't I forgive myself and leave the guilt behind? Today I take life easily and let God direct my day. When conflict or confusion comes, he shows me the way. The door was opened, I stepped through, despair came to an end, the eighteenth shot of liquid sin no longer is my friend.