... and isolation that propelled them toward their downfall. Emma at the beginning of the novel was someone who made active decisions about what she wanted. She saw herself as the master of her destiny. Her affair with Rudolphe was made after her decision to live out her fantasies and escape the ordinariness of her life and her marriage to Charles. Emma's active decisions though were based increasingly as the novel progresses on her fantasies. The lechery to which she falls victim is a product of the debilitating adventures her mind takes. These adventures are feed by the novels that she reads. Th ...

... scaffold alone. She was forced to be intergated by the high-officials of the town, while holding her little Pearl in arms. Making matters worse, the father of the child was in that very group of officals. She was then sentenced to wear the scarlet letter "A", showing her guilt "externally". Unable to take it off, she was forced to show her guilt to the entire settlement. However, the Reverend Dimmesdale suffered "internally", with a scarlet letter of his own engraved in his mind, and on his chest as well. He felt like he betrayed God, and beat himself in a frenzy to prove his wrongdoing. He often questioned wheather ...

... the ego persuades one to make actions that make one's actions acceptable by others around them. It also controls the need for acceptance and the need to be in control. Though different, the superego lies within one's spirituality and need for order. It values rules, and commandments. Jack as id, represents the carnal drives in man. He illustrates this through painting his face. By painting his face, Jack suppresses his ego and superego, causing Jack to be capable of acts of violence without having any repercussions. Jack portrays this violence in different ways. First, Jack enjoys hunting because he gets to ...

... and complete the household chores. Women were only recently able to vote and they were often were uneducated. Women still operated in whore houses as a type of service toward men. Men were dependant on these women for uncomplicated sex. Considering all of these factors women had a type of object like status during the 1930’s. Racism was also very present in the society of the 1930’s and Blacks were still seen as inferior by white people Blacks were segregated in schools, stores, transport and were unable to vote. Blacks were also given the menial jobs such as servants and stable bucks and not given a de ...

... bad, misguided idea, the book you're making us read isn't as bad. CHAPTER 2- The Market Place- This chapter tells of Hester Prynne being led through the city and in to the market place with the finely stitched Scarlet Letter. She walks protecting her young child against her bosom as she is scorned by the crowd. Her punishment is quote “as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France,� (Page 52, pink highlight). Instead of using the pillory, which would lock a person's head and hands together where they could not move and be forced to not b ...

... regarding tradition and violence. There are three main types of symbolism in this piece: characters’ names, objects, and numbers. The names of the characters play a large role in the story. Some such as Delacroix, are rather obviously religious natures. Others, such as Adams, are a bit more obscure. The Delacroix family has a name that literally means of the cross. The principal Delacroix character, Mrs. Delacroix, appears several times throughout the short story. She functions as a friend to Tessie Hutchinson, the woman ultimately selected for the sacrifice, but turns on her at the end along with the re ...

... a 800 lb. bull moose. From there the pack split up to mate 3 wolves followed the half wolf half dog or the she-wolf. The 3 wolves fought and One- eye, a old fighting wolf, won and won the rights to the she-wolf. The she-wolf gave birth to 5 wolf pups. The only one to survive was a spunky cub named White Fang. White Fang became a pet of the Indians. He moved with the Indians everywhere they traveled, yet he still heard the call of the wild. They cherished him as he became a great fighter, fighting dogs. He became wise and learned many tricks. His value to them was priceless except a man named Beauty Smit ...

... was the hope that he possessed. He hoped every day of his illness that he would get better, that his parents would be spared their grief, or that some doctor would come up with a revolutionary idea that would heal him. Because of his hope, Johnny never complained or protested during the entire course of his illness. He always obeyed the doctors' wishes and followed their instructions to a "T" because he wanted so desparatly to get well. Although he realized that eventually his life would end, he still never gave up the hope that perhaps he could outsmart his fate to die, if just to steal a few extra hour ...

... ironic when she takes the job because she has tried to avoid tires and even got nervous when changing her car tire. Yet she ends up working in the shop and overcoming this fear with help from Mattie. This also is an example of how Taylor is a round character and grows throughout the story. Another irony near the beginning of the story is when Taylor's car breaks down and she is given an Indian baby, she finds herself in the predicament that she was trying to avoid in Kentucky. Back in Kentucky she was proud that sing herself off from the world. In the second chapter we meet Lou Ann a soon to be mother that is ha ...

... and Atreyu’s determination sets The Neverending Story apart from the classic scene of one character playing the role of a hero without distributing the accomplishments between the other characters. This book represents a celebration of unity in which it is proven by Atreyu and Bastian who set the stage and begins what has to be begun. Bastian plays the role of a heroic human being in a human world reading nothing but a book called The Neverending Story while Atreyu characterizes an immortal hero living out struggles inside the book. Their separate worlds are furnished together to bring a united conclusio ...