Dialogue Essay: The Death Of Nursey

The power of sexual activity is also proven here because Devin is made to forget and ignore the conversation that is happening in the room adjoining the closet he is sharing with Catriana

Pearl grows up without knowing who her father is. She is asked by her mother if she knows why she wears The Scarlet Letter, and Pearl replies, “Truly I do! It is the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his heart!”(Hawthorne 157). Hester and Dimmesdale both get outcasted by the community. They both go through the same pain even though no one knows that Dimmesdale is Pearl’s father. She loves Dimmesdale so much that she protects him from the community. Hester tries to protect Dimmesdale from the community because of all the guilt he

An additional example of Dimmesdale’s hypocrisy is the fact that he professes his love for Hester and Pearl, yet it is always when they are hidden from their fellow townsmen. When Pearl notices this, she tells Hester:

Like clockwork, Liam is rushing into his room. “Are you okay? I heard you scream - do we need to go to the hospital?” Liam crouches down feeling for a fever.

Dimmesdale instead keeps his scarlet letter close to his heart. “‘But why does he not wear it outside his bosom, as thou dost, mother?’” (Hawthorne, 150) Pearls asks Hester in the forest. He doesn’t wear it outside his bosom because he has not revealed his sin to the members of the community. Dimmesdale’s health deteriorates since the moment he does not reveal his sin. Roger Chillingworth says “In such case, it could only be the symptom of a highly disordered mental state, when a man, rendered morbidly self-contemplative by long, intense, and secret pain, had extended his egotism over the whole expanse of nature” (Hawthorne, 126). Dimmesdale wishes that he could show his sin like Hester “‘Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly on your bosom! Mine burns in secret!’” (Hawthorne, 154) It is indeed his “secret pain” that kills him in the

She first tried on a plain black skirt with ruffles at the bottom that fell to the middle of her thigh. “I wonder if wearing skirts are popular at this school?” she mumbled under her breath. She quickly changed into shorts that seemed to be so old that she couldn’t even remember when she’d bought them. “What if showing my legs are a bit much for the first day,” she mumbled again. “I’ll just play it safe by slipping on

Drew Sullivan was torn between his Catholic guilt and feeling free for the first time. It has been a couple of weeks since he fucked Kyle. Drew's kitchen shades were permanently closed, hence their playful peek-a-boo weekend ritual came to an abrupt stop. In Drew's mindset, temptation had been thwarted.

Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long at best can it last since you’re both men and still have everywhere to go. Only five minutes, I assure you only five minutes most of that in the dark. If you think of them as dirty they will be dirty only because you will be giving nothing. You will be despising his flesh and his but you can make your time together anything but dirty you can give each other something which will make both of you better forever if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.” (Giovanni’s Room 186-187)

Secrets at times, are somewhat difficult to keep. Especially those secrets having to keep things from people you know, and see every day, such as Chillingworth and the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. They both seem and act as if they’ve gone mad, causing a stir in the lives of the two characters, including Hester and Pearl. Their actions caused them to lie and to hesitate on certain things, and in certain environments. Specifically, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, due to him being the father of Pearl, Hester Prynne's daughter.

will grayson (lower cased) lives a little over an hour away from Chicago. He is in an online relationship with a boy named Isaac. At school, he only has a few friends who he doesn't keep close because he only needs Isaac. Isaac says it's time to meet up in person and he tells him to meet up at Frenchy’s which will is oblivious that it's a porn shop. Will Grayson (capitalized) walks into the Frenchy’s to get a magazine or something as a joke. When the cashier calls Will out for using a fake ID will is confused to hear his name being said. After the two talk will gets a call from his only “friend” , Maura, she tells him that she has been Isaac the whole time. Tiny Cooper (Will Grayson’s best and only friend) comes into the story as gay and fat as ever comes walking

He also let Pearl become a fatherless child because he was too ashamed of what he did and he idly stood by witnessing it all occur. Dimmesdale is very morally weak and unable to confess his hidden sin. Dimmesdale claims his sickness to be “the sickness of the soul” and refuses to tell his secret to anyone. He knows what is right but has not the courage to make himself say so, however with the constant focus put on him from Chillingsworth encourages him to tell

It is also night time during this scene which reflects that Dimmesdale is still hiding his secret, because he knows nobody will see him on the scaffold at

Dimmsdale was scared to talk about their relationship in public because he was worried about what everyone else would think of him and how it would affect his life as a pastor. The townspeople would have made him into an outcast as Hester had been. This is the reason that he would not stand by her on the scaffolding, and would not come clean about their relationship in front of everyone. However, he felt as though it was safe to talk about their relationship in the safety of the forest. In the book, Pearl asks Dimmsdale if he would stand by her and her mother for the town to see.

Though Reverend Dimmesdale is to cowardly to reveal his sin, of secretly fathering Pearl, this is not to say that he does not feel the remorse of it. On the contrary, Dimmesdale is ridden with guilt. He cannot bring himself to reveal his actions, so instead he tortures himself in secret. Dimmesdale fasts till he almost faints, and whips himself till he bleeds. He is also haunted by Hester’s former Husband, Roger Chillingworth. Chillingworth exacts revenge upon Dimmesdale, for impregnating his wife, by constantly trying to extract the truth from him. All of Dimmesdale’s pain, guilt, and shame are embodied in a brand on his chest that resembles the scarlet letter. The brand blazes causing Dimmesdale pain, and he believes it is an affliction sent by God. Throughout the book it is clear that Dimmesdale is feeling the retribution of his sin.

Despite his obvious romantic desires for Cynthia Hawkins, there are also some aspects of a maternal relationship. Jules cuddles her gown while listening to her sing, seeking motherly comfort in the sound of her music. Cynthia is comforted by her young fan. Although no one ever listens to her rehearse, she allows Jules to stay and listen. "It's strange, but I think I'd like you to be there while I'm working," she tells him. Despite the way that Jules violates her in almost every way possible, Cynthia forgives him; her reasons for this stem from the kind of unconditional love that mothers have for their children. After all,