Shouldn't most writings be speaking from the spirit and elaboration your own thoughts? ... For that she follows her own morals, she cares for others more than herself. ... "-what had I to do it youth and beauty like thine own! ... "Think not that I shall interfere with Heaven's own method of retribution, or, to my own loss, betray him to the gripe of human law." ...
This is Hester's way of overcoming her tribulation, she is, nevertheless, constantly aware of her shortcomings "Thou must gather thine own sunshine. ... The rate of teen Pregnancy has gone up so drastically in recent years that you can see everyday younger and younger girls rolling around baby carriages with their own kids in them. ...
Historic Essay Many people only have ideas as to what the puritans were really like. Most people think they were just an overly serious, narrow minded group of people. In some cases this is true, but over all they weren't. Nathaniel Hawthorne proves this point in his novel "The Sca...
Alas, if he discern such sinfulness in his own white soul, what horrid spectacle would he behold in thine or mine!'" ... Although the society accepts him as a better individual and as a positive example for the community, Dimmesdale becomes even more distressed after his attempt of confession because of his own guilt of being unable to admit his sin. ... Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders; laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh. ... Not only is Dimmesdale being physically de...
that my own features were partly repeated in her face, and so strikingly that the world might see them! But she is mostly thine"(195)! ... However, after he changes, Hester feels: "he seemed so remote from her own sphere, and utterly beyond her reach"(225). ...
Roger rebukes himself, "a man already in decay, having given my best years to feed the hungry dream of knowledge,-what had I to do with youth and beauty like thine own"(53)! ... Also, because he does not want to reveal his identity, he can not take care of his own daughter, Pearl. ...
It is our Hester, --the town's own Hester, who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!' ... Exchange this false life of thine for a true one Give up this name of Arthur Dimmesdale, and make thyself another, and a high one, such as thou canst wear without fear or shame. ...
She refuses and instead tells him that she will bear his shame as well as her own. ... He smiles and tells her, "Not thy soul...No, not thine!" ... Pearl has a particular mood where nothing Hester does can persuade the child to change her stance, and so eventually Hester "[is] ultimately compelled to stand aside, and permit the child to be swayed by her own impulses." ...
