... the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author's tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece. Pearl, Hester's child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes, is extremely smart, pretty, and nice. More often than not, she shows her intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's favorite activities is playing with flowers and ...

... be waiting for him when he gets back. When the Miyomotos return, Mr. Heine has died and his widow has sold all the land for a hefty profit. She gives the Miyomotos their money back and buys an apartment in town where she spends the last of her lonely days. Kabuo and Carl both come back from the war to find the land sold. Their once close-knit friendship is shattered by their families' disagreement. They both become fishermen. Along with the Kabuo/Carl tension and subsequent trial is another relationship filled with stress: that of Kabuo's wife Hatsue and her high school sweetheart, now local reporter Ishmael ...

... and I had nothing that could even remotely be called a social life. My reason for doing this to myself was that I spent most of my time thinking about my future and wishing for it to come. I had almost no kind of happiness for where I was or what I was doing in the present. I cut myself off from the outside world. I was rather shy around other people (I still am, admittedly) and I had very few friends. It was not too long before I discovered the faults in my erroneous living. I finally realized, and truly not a moment too soon, that if I did not start living for the present, my future would soon become my ne ...

... and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women who were thin straight lines are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status therefore giving the highest and most respected class in Flatland to the circular or Priestly order who control Flatland. Priests in Flatland are a certain type of polygon. A circle in fact, "that is considered a polygon because of the large number of small sides that the polygon contains. As the number of the sides increases, a polygon approximates to circle; and, when the number is very great indeed, say for example three or ...

... nothing but the worst for their prisoner (Thompson 171(12)). A description of the inquisitors'(13) lips demonstrates the intense dehumanization of the captors through distinct words (14); “I saw them writhe with a deadly locution. I saw them fashion the syllables of my name; and I shuddered because no sound succeeded.� (Poe 1(15)) This last view of humanity until the narrator's release leaves him feeling hopeless. (Burdick 91(16)) The captors, his probable last view of humanity, are an evil group who do not care at all for him. Isolation from normal surroundings is mentally draining. The setting of the dungeon ...

... old woman can be considered morally right. Raskolnikov arbitrarily leaves out some necessary considerations in his moral “equation” that do not adhere to utilitarianism. A utilitarian would argue that Raskolnikov has not reached an acceptable solution because he has not accurately solved the problem. On the other hand, a non-utilitarian would reject even the notion of deliberating about the act of murder in such a mathematical manner. He might contend that Raskolnikov’s reasoning, and the entire theory of utilitarianism, cannot be used to judge morality because it rejects individual rights and con ...

... nothing. His wife Mildred did not love him at all, and his only friend (that he could remember) Clarisse died in a car crash. All of sudden, he was not happy, but he did not know why. He thought maybe because his wife had pulled the fire alarm on him, but really it was he did not love her at all. "It's strange, I don't miss her at all(155)" Montag had uncertainly about his marriage, because marriage was suppose to be bonded with love, but with his marriage love was extinct and nowhere to be seen. His life had died, when his wife Mildred pulled the alarm and had told the firemen that Montag had books. To M ...

... work. The Count of Monte-Cristo is a breath-taking experience. It is a dramatic tale filled with mystery and intrigue. Edmond Dantes profile illustrates the mutation of a fundamentally good human being into a narrow minded, vindictive man. He embarked upon life as a simple sailor from a poor fishing village. A loyal, dedicated, and hard working young man Edmond set sail in 1813. He returned two years later as the appointed caption of the Pharaon . Upon arrival, Dantes immediately attends to his father's needs instead of visiting his fiancée, thus demonstrating unselfish love for his father. Edmond possesse ...

... for she is being raised by her protective and traditional grandmother. When her grandmother sees her kissing a local boy over the garden fence, she grows worried about Janie's future and marries her off to an older neighbor, Logan Killicks, a man with property who can "protect" her. The marriage is not happy for Janie. Her grandmother dies, and after a short time, Janie escapes from Logan. She marries Joe Starks, and they go to live at a new black settlement called Eatonville. Joe is an ambitious man. He becomes mayor of the new town, opens a store, builds a big white house, and runs the post office. He wants Ja ...

... Antony is a very intelligent man and he has the ability to manipulate a crowd with his speeches. For example in Act 3 During Antony speech he says “But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is a honourable man.” By this it shows that Antony is intelligent and has courage for he mocks Brutus and his accusations. An ...