American Dream Of Individuality Analysis

Mario Pengili
3-14-14
4th hour
American Dream of Individuality What do Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Barrack Obama all have in Common? They all embraced the American dream of individuality and changed the whole world, they did not try to fallow the ideas of the general public, they were individual thinkers that had their own ideas, and thoughts. Most people conform to the world, they try to fallow the footsteps of others and expect the same success. However, everyone on earth is different, and what works for one guy won't work for the next, but in the end people still try to follow the path that everyone else takes, which leads to a small amount of people actually making a difference in the world, and the rest failing. But, the
After Hester was freed from prison, for adultery, she found a "small thatched (68)" cottage outside of town and lived there. There Hester starts her needle working, she was very talented and her products became the "fashion (69)" of the town. Even though she committed adultery, a huge sin in the puritan society, " her needle work was seen on the ruff of the governor; military men wore it on their scarf's, and the minister on his band; [and] it decked the baby's little cap (69)", in that quote Hawthorne used syntax to convey how prominent Hester's needle work material was. Her work wasn't seen on normal clothing, like shirts and dresses, her materials were seen on luxury accessories that only few could acutely have. However, Hester's own clothes were " of the coarsest material and the most somber hue (70). Even though Hester made the most luxuries, and high quality materials, she never wore them herself, because, she wanted others to enjoy her materiel, and did not want to waste the fabric on herself. Hester also " bestowed all her superfluous means in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not infrequently insulted the hand that fed them (70)". Unlike most people, who want revenge on people that hate them or who want glory for their charity, Hester tried to help
Dimmisdale was " a young clergy man... who had graduated from one of the great English universities, bringing all the learning's of the age into our wild forest land (57)", and was admired by all the people of the community, especially the women. But, he had committed a great sin, he had a affair with Hester. However, unlike most church members who committed the same sin, he felt a huge guilt for it. His psychological guilt caused his young body to physically decay, and unlike others he confessed to his sin, in front of all the "pure" people of Salem. But, despite him being a sinner, in the eyes of the puritans, he delivered a speech, in the last moments of his life, that made the gloomy, and anti social puritans "not rest until they had told one another of what each knew better than he could tell or hear. According to their testimonies, never had a man spoken so wise, so high, and so holy a spirit, as he that spake this day (203)", at one point they thought "a spirit as a prophecy had come upon him (203)". After, the revered sinner Dimmisdale even showed the mark on his bosom, and some people refused to believe it, they could not believe such a loved, and holy man could sin and have a A marked on his chest. Dimmisdale's individuality made him a inspiration, and a hero to a depressed