Jacob Asrat 10/12/15 1st Swindle Character Analysis: The Scarlet Letter Rough Draft Nathaniel Hawthorne displays Hester’s biggest sin as what motivates her to live every day. Throughout the novel it seemed like Hester Prynne didn’t have much to live for. Living day by day, night by night, with a scornful scarlet letter “A” embroidered on her chest. But the one thing that seemed to keep her going was her only value in life, her daughter Pearl. Hawthorne seemed to speculate that if Hester didn’t
The distorted nature of the Invisible Man’s vision sparks the beginning of a smooth transition away from ideologically-restricted and ignorant man. Floating within the various hallucinatory states, a typical characteristic of Surrealism, the Invisible Man gains different dimensions and perspective. In turn, Surrealism allows the Invisible Man search for his true inner self. While it is right that Timothy Spaulding argues how “[u]nder the strain of the treatment the narrator descends into a dream
believe life ends with death, and that is all.”, which is completely contradictory to his fathers’ beliefs. The narrator does not believe they have “both gone shopping […]”, he believes him to be dead and gone, never to return. Yet “[…] in [his] new black leather phone book, there’s [the father’s] number, and the disconnected number [he’ll] still call.” Even though he initially seemed reluctant to accept his father’s way of handling his grief, he finds himself repeating the exact same ritual he did
the reality is that society cannot sustainably function if everyone acts like a selfish child. And sure enough, the religion of greed goes kaput very quickly, with a stunning fall only paralleled by its meteoric rise — the Jazz Age is silenced by Black Tuesday. Genesis records seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine; likewise, here, a decade of decadence is succeeded by a decade of ruin. It is uncomfortable for people to realize that a price must be paid for their carelessness
Wharton, Plath and Gilman use the relationship between America’s middle-class idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic to distort the icon of the home, from a hub of warmth, joy and growth to a deeply disturbing brokenness that is reflective of the broken relationships within the home, challenging the false claims of the home as a safe, protected place. All three writers subtly link terror - the most important ingredient of the Gothic to acts of transgression, and show how the home