In The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the story revolves around the lives and the events of the following characters: Hester Prynne, who is the mother of an illegitimate child with the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and is now being outcasted by her Puritan community because of it; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale who is the charming minister of 17th century Boston, the father of an illegitimate child and has not had his sin revealed; then there's Roger Chillingworth who is the estranged husband of Hester Prynne who has given up a life-long pursuit of knowledge in exchange for one of revenge and evil. All of these main characters are important to the story of the scarlet letter, but the one who arguably has the most important and
Acceptance is not necessarily forgetting, but remembering and forgiving in order to move on. When Julia learned to accept and forgive her past, she is able to carry on with her life. Equally important, Julia in Sarah's Key written by Tatiana De Rosnay, goes through some difficult times, which made it difficult for her to embrace the situations. In this novel, Julia is described and seen as a character with much acceptance. She remembers and always forgives in order to live a life without any grudges. Sarah is a character described as brave but unaccepting she refuses to forget or in this matter to forgive and move on. Her pain that she accumulated when she found her brother dead in the cupboard is a part
The book The Secret of Sarah Revere by Ann Rinaldi follows the 13 year old girl, Sarah Revere. Being that her father is Paul Revere, she has a pretty exciting life. Sarah’s mother, Sara, had died when she was around 5, but got a new mother, Rachel Walker.
The Salem Witch Trials: a time where the innocent were guilty and the guilty got away with murder. This horrendous event can be further explained through Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. Miller has won many awards in his time for writing many dramas that are very popular amongst the people and The Crucible just so happens to be one of them. It tells a story about a harsh time that many people faced when they were losing loved ones who were found guilty since they didn’t confess to a crime that they never committed. While reading the play, a person will find a theme of power. One specific character, Mary Warren, helps show this theme because as soon as she gains power, her character changes drastically. Throughout The Crucible, Mary Warren is portrayed as a very dynamic character since she begins as being very wimpy, then she gains confidence and becomes brave, and then she goes right back to being timid and controlled by Abigail.
Is it possible for one person to be capable of bringing down an entire society? Arthur Miller’s novel The Crucible, gives an accurate representation of how one act and one person can be the catalyst for so many atrocious crimes. When we closely examine the motives and actions of Abigail Williams we see just how corrupt and evil a scorned lover can be. She portrays these types of qualities, vengefulness,jealousy, and mendacity through her actions and speech.
“Everything is not what it seems,” while this lyric may seem trite, it holds great truth. People, places, activities, each can be viewed in more than one way depending on the circumstances. From these viewpoints spring complexities and mystery in the shape of differing facades.
“The most memorable characters in fiction are not people most of us would choose as our friends” (Allen 1). Readers find it intriguing to learn about a character that lacks predictability: they could do no wrong in one scene, then turn around and become a backstabbing liar in the next. The same characteristics that would not make the best of friends. Irregularity makes a character and the story, for that matter, interesting. Abigail Williams from The Crucible develops into a character that readers love to hate. Her anger, her cunning, her passion, every twist and turn she brings throughout the play brings fascination with it. She would not be an especially remarkable candidate for a best friend, however, but it perusers find it extremely easy to remember her. Abigail exhibits memorability not because of the qualities that prove a good friend, but because of her intransigence, her passion, her accusatory behavior, and her manipulation.
Would you have innocent people die so that you could be with a married man that had kids? Well that is exactly what Abigail Williams did in the play, The Crucible. The play took place in the 1600's in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail Williams was so exhilarated with this guy, who was married with kids, that she would do anything to be with him. She spoke one lie, and it soon became a monster that she could not tame. Anyone who reads The Crucible knows to not follow by Abigail's precedent because her attention seeking personality, lust for guys, and craven behavior destroyed her town and peoples lives.
“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance” (Socrates). In Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, it is determined that this quote is in fact true. In the novel, Sarah a ten year old girl is introduced. Sarah lived in Paris during 1942 when Hitler demanded that all Jews be arrested and sent to concentration camps. Most of the Jews had no information on what was going on, especially in France where the French police rounded up all the Jews and brought them to concentration camps. Major conflicts arise in the novel because of character’s lack of knowledge. Sarah’s innocence created her lack of knowledge leading to her brother Michel's death additionally, William’s lack of knowledge created a conflict within himself, and finally
Margaret Hossack, a woman of Scottish descent has an interesting character to me. She is a hard-working wife of a farmer. While reading, I picture Margaret being about five feet and seven inches tall while weighing close to Clammer’s weight, 160 pounds. Physically, she is a strong, bigger, sturdy and large boned woman. Margaret Hossack is in her late fifties but her image does not make her appear older to me, even if she does have wrinkles under her eyes. Not only is she a hard-working, caring, and loving wife, but also a mother to her nine children. She puts her family’s needs before her own and seems to always accomplish chores around the house while making sure everyone is well taken care of. In my eyes, she is the provider and strength of her family. Without Margaret around, I believe the family would fall apart because her husband can sometimes act of in different ways. Along with her hard-working and ambitious character, her family also shares this trait with her. The family, including her children, seem to get everything done throughout every day no matter how long it takes them to finish. They listen to their parents and seem to have polite manners even though some may have had some issues with their father or are rather quiet. Although she has these positives traits and a well-developed personality, there is a side of Margaret that makes me question what is happening or if I can believe her. She has a secretive and quiet personality has well, which sometimes makes it difficult to read into her and understand her. She talks to many people about her problems and makes them seem very dramatic but when reading further into her questioning she denies all of it. Many families have several problems, but if she really needed help, I would think she would own up to what has happened to her family or try to get help from someone even if she is scared.
Sarah Franklin is desperate to get her son safely to Crystal Lake, but driving off the road in a blizzard wasn't part of the plan. When a deputy comes to her rescue, she's stunned to recognize her summer crush, Ian Kramer.
Mrs.strageswroth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does.Miss.Stragesworth is very joyful. The narrator says,”The sun was shining, the air was fresh and clear after the nights rain, and everything in Miss.Strangesworth town seemed washed and bright.” This was to show how Mrs.Strangesworth’s feelings towards the town.
Learning can have a positive effect on a person ,it won't always have a positive effect but it can considering what type of person they are. Learning can be astounding for certain individuals but for those others they might take it for granted. It highly depends on what you are learning rather than just the person.
In the stories of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the antagonist characters display parallel story lines through their searches for the enemy. Roger Chillingworth, the former husband of Hester Prynne and the antagonist of The Scarlet Letter, works against his wife in order to find her untold second lover. Frankenstein is a contrasting story in which an unnamed monster is the antagonist towards his human creator, Dr. Frankenstein. Yet despite quite different story lines, the two characters possess traits that exibit parallels between them. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth displays the startling passionate characteristics of an unwavering drive to seek out his foe, madness as his focus on his search takes over his entire being, and terrible anguish when his task is unexpectedly over, all of which are reflected in the daemon created at the hand of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein.
Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? The Holocaust was a terrible time in history when Adolf Hitler was torturing many innocent Jews. He put them in concentration camps, but many tried to hid just like Anne Frank and her family. Anne Frank who was Jew, has a famous quote that says “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” Even though throughout the “Diary of Anne Frank” we see that people are not always the best they could be, I agree with Anne and believe that everyone is still good at heart. One overall reason I chose that people are really good at heart are the acts of kindness Peter has throughout the book to Anne. However, I do know that there are two sides of an argument, I can see how some might