whole novel. The first example is Arthur Dimmesdale. He has to keep the secret that he is Pearl’s father. To the whole town‚ Dimmesdale is known as being a great minister‚ but in this mind he was really a sinner. By having this battle going on in his head Dimmesdale became weak. Hawthorne explains this by saying "his spirit lacked the strength that could have borne up‚ as thine has been‚ beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter" (p.124). Because Dimmesdale was so confused by the two different
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Society teaches us that heroes are usually superhumans. Batman‚ Superman‚ Supergirl‚ Elsa in Frozen and even Belle in Beauty and the Beast do heroic deeds to make the average person think they must possess superhuman powers. John Proctor‚ Susan Jordan and the men of Flight 93 all prove that any life could be taken by anyone at any time. Arthur Miller demonstrates through his play the mass hysteria of the Puritan Society. The Puritan people let their emotions guide their actions in whether or
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Many characters go through transformations in The Scarlet Letter‚ and one of those characters is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of a puritan society‚ and it is the laws of that society‚ both written and unwritten‚ that Dimmesdale breaks and which causes the changes to occur. He commits the sin of adultery‚ and by sleeping with Hester Prynne‚ breaks the laws that he is supposed to represent. He cannot admit his sin because he is a holy man‚ and admitting his sin would
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1. Write balanced net ionic equations for all reactions that occurred during Activity I. 2. Identify the color of the mineral oil layer in the test tube when each of the following species is present: I2‚ Br2‚ Cl2‚ I–‚ Br–‚ and Cl–. 3. Identify the color that should have been present in the mineral oil layer in test tubes 1–6 if no reaction had occurred in any of the test tubes. Explain your answer. 4. Use the answers to the first three questions to create an activity series of metals
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Dimmesdale is a priest that is cold hearted and needs to confess of his sin. So what does he mean in this Quote “[Men who have unconfessed sins] shrink from displaying themselves slack and filth‚ in the view of men; because thence forward no good can be achieved by them; no evil of the past can be redeemed by better service.” Is Dimmesdale right in this Quote? Dimmesdale is right and has a good point in the beginning of this quote. The reason is because he says “Men who have unconfessed sins shrink
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Today‚ people describe the Puritans with their biased point of view. It is not unfathomable why people do not like the Puritans. The Puritans’ society and today’s society are very different. Puritan society was very restrained; people could only believe in God and the Bible was the law. Unlike Puritan society‚ today’s society does not restrain religion. Even though Puritans had bad influences on today’s society‚ Puritans played a pivotal role in constructing the USA. If you look around more carefully
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The Puritan vision for a “perfect” society changed over time due to the establishment of the American dream‚ the development of Colonial music‚ and the Great Awakening. The various views of the American Dream changed the thought of a “perfect” society for Puritans. The very beginning of the American Dream‚ was envisioned with the very first Puritan voyage to the Massachusetts Bay area. The belief that the Puritans were a group of individuals that were selected by God to reach new land was highly
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In the United States today‚ Puritan beliefs and themes have influenced our way of living. Public policies in modern day society are shaped around what the Puritans believed in. This is shown in the tenants of the American Dream‚ as well as the constitution‚ and the bill of rights. All three of these were created around the Puritan time‚ and the Puritan’s were the ones who created them. One of the biggest law’s that the United States has‚ that many other countries do not is covenant‚ it is the importance
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Many cultures have the idea or lifestyle similar to a Puritan’s views; nevertheless making each culture have a similarity. Having a certain connection with god like the Puritans is basis of what Puritanism is about. It is required in the Puritan faith that you have a relationship with God and you recognize and regret that sins you have committed. There is a huge population in the world that has a christian/catholic mindset‚ they use the bible as ways to better themselves and the rules that God implements
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article‚ “Puritans and Sex” by Edmund S. Morgan‚ the author explains that contrary to popular belief‚ the Puritans openly acknowledged their natural human urge for sex and‚ while looking down upon sinful acts such as adultery and rape‚ regarded them only as “pardonable human weaknesses” (Morgan) that called only for prevention and very rarely for major punishment and furthermore found sex after marriage perfectly acceptable and even necessary for a functional society. The idea that Puritans were opposed
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