"Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute." ― Thornton Wilder. This quote clearly reminds a reader of a main character in the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This quote talks about one sinner and it emphasis Roger Chillingworth. Even though Chillingworth is the most reasonable sinner, he has stolen Hester Prynne youth, another sin Chillingworth did was tricking the heart of a fellow mate and sacrificing a friendship to satisfy his own selfishness, and he also has lied to a society of Puritans which is a huge sin because in the Puritans' eyes committing a terrible sin is failing to admit to it.
Roger Chillingworth is twisted and in the puritans society he was consider a dark soul. He did worse than Hester Prynne's sin of appalling act of adultery. Hester marries Chillingworth out of need, not love. She was poor and the future with a rich, wealthy man sounded promising than her current life. She might have believed that they could fall in love one day, and they could have. But Chillingworth assembles a huge sin by marrying Hester so he could take her youth; he admits: "Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay."(Ch.4 p.68-69). Hester is the victim of her husband, he sent her to New England by herself, and meanwhile Chillingworth is in Europe. He even admitted that it was his fault when he said, "It was my folly! I have said it. But, up to that epoch of my life, I have lived in vain."(Ch.4, p. 68). Roger Chillingworth returns to civilization to see his that his wife is on the town scaffold telling him to pretend he doesn't know her. .
Roger Chillingworth befriends the good Reverend and becomes his doctor. He notices that something more than physical body problems is wrong with him.
He tried to tell Scarlett his reasons. ... Scarlett's mother died, and her father has gone crazy. ... The war had ended, but Scarlett's struggles have just begun. ... At first, Scarlett and Rhett get along very well. ... Rhett is inconsolable and Scarlett blames Rhett for allowing her to ride. ...
Punishment has always revolved around the same ideas, to discipline an individual, and to set an example for the rest of society, discouraging them from following in a convict's footprints. Either way, the end result is to set a criminal apart from the rest of society. Today we publicize the effe...
Scarlett O"Hara of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is far from an admirable literary heroine. ... Another way in which I identify with Scarlett O"Hara is her tenacity. ... For her whole life, Scarlett believes that all of her actions are motivated by winning man of her dreams. ... Like Scarlett, I realized this quite far into the process. ... But just as Scarlett's life to that point was not lived in vain, it's not too late for me either. ...
Throughout Gone With the Wind Scarlett faces many hardships. ... When Scarlett's beloved plantation home, Tara, is threatened by carpetbaggers, she does not give up. ... If Scarlett did not have any, she would have considered it impossible to save Tara and given up without a fight. ... In Scarlett's case this came in the form of near starvation. ... It can make one stronger, as it did for Margaret Mitchell's lead character Scarlett O"Hara in Gone With the Wind . ...
Sins and Sinners of The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is brimming with many sins and sinners as Nathaniel Hawthorne attempts to portray throughout the story. ... Although the society, and many of the characters commit sins, Nathaniel Hawthorne attempts to convey the trail of thoughts that The Scarlet Letter is about Sinners; not sins. ... Hester was publicly shamed and forced by the people of Boston to wear a badge of humiliation (the scarlet letter), and when she lavishly decorated the letter "A" which she had to wear on her bosom, they degraded her even more for supposably embracing...
In this sentence, the townsman admits that the government in New England was responsible for the punishment of sinners. ... Wagenknecht also believes that it was not the responsibility of Chillingworth and the Puritans who punished Hester to take authoritative action on sinners. ... She goes on to say that if her sentence to wear the scarlet letter was over, the letter would disappear naturally. ... Dimmesdale says, "Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! ... I agree with the statements that Wagenknecht made about The Scarlet Letter. ...
Scarlett "became a wife within two weeks" of the picnic at Twelve Oaks(130). ... Many of Scarlett's disappointments were due to the change of events. ... The war arrived in Atlanta as Scarlett fled for Tara. ... Scarlett was home at Tara trying to salvage what was left of the plantation. ... Scarlett worked all day long and "every movement was agony"(415). ...
Scarlett teaches the viewer to never give up through her endless fight for survival. ... No matter her age or how many times she remarries, Scarlett remains very childlike at heart. ... Fortunately, Scarlett has a whole other side to her character. ... Scarlett is the most headstrong and determined character as portrayed in these scenes by Vivien Leigh. ... Lastly, Scarlett teaches us to make the best of every situation. ...
