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    * “They had a choice‚ all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father‚ or President Truman. Decent men‚ who believed in a day’s work for a day’s pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn’t realize that the tail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don’t tell me they didn’t have a choice.” –Rorschach 1.1 * “because there is good and there is evil‚ and evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon I shall not compromise

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    “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”  ― Lewis Carroll “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”  ― Voltaire “Be noble minded! Our own heart‚ and not other men’s opinions of us‚ forms our true honor.”  ― Friedrich von Schiller “Alas‚ Siddhartha‚ I see you suffering‚ but you’re suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh‚ at which you’ll soon laugh for yourself.”  ― Hermann

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    meaningful citations‚ which are supported by examples. The quote that I chose to analyze and write about is; “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which be the true.”  The meaning of this quote is that you cannot be two different people in life. It is not possible to be a different person with your friends or family‚ which is mentioned in this quote as “the multitudes"‚ when in reality you are a completely

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    a man named Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale is also an interesting man. Some things differ with the two. They are alike and different in many ways. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale shared similarities and differences. Hester and Dimmesdale are alike in many ways. These two are two of the main characters in the scarlet letter. Hester and Dimmesdale both act like cowards; they seem to both be punished by someone. Hester is criticized by the public‚ and Dimmesdale is tortured by the

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    Lily Wang CRITICAL ANALYSIS “The moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of actual life in time‚ here and now.” What Joseph Campbell means is that people who are living now have to live by their own morals and standards‚ not those of their previous generations. The “moral order” he talks about is the set of values and ethics people follow in daily life. As time progresses‚ society changes‚ and its social norms have to change along with it. Just in 2013‚ France revoked their

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    sins. How people react to the consequences of those sins differs. Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale have to deal with the scrutiny and criticism from the community and themselves after committing the sin of adultery. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows how differently they are shunned. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the contrasting characters Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to develop both sides of public vs private sin to show how different people deal with guilt and how it’s

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    Dimmesdale deems it imperative to keep his secret‚ and it provides an insight to the possible harbinger of his momentous downfall throughout the novel. The townspeople cannot know he committed adultery with Hester Prynne. If detected‚ Dimmesdale would be an outcast and punished‚ especially because of his high honor. Since he cannot reveal his sin‚ the character must coexist with it‚ which continually clouds his thoughts and actions. Similarly‚ Hester Prynne‚ the wearer of the crimson emblem‚ whose

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    has affected their future. This is teaching that every action someone takes has a consequence‚ whether good or bad. Three characters who made poor decisions that had a negative impact for their future were Julius Caesar‚ Fred Collins‚ and Arthur Dimmesdale. In The Julius Caesar Play‚ the main character‚ Julius Caesar‚ made a choice to not listen which resulted in his death. Julius Caesar is a story about a man who returns from war after defeating Pompey. The townspeople do not like caesar especially

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    In Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” the “story of an ordinary man who gets drawn into a senseless murder” is told. Taking place in Algeria this man‚ Meursault‚ is constantly in a climate of extreme warmth‚ as are all the inhabitants therein. The sun‚ the source of light and the cause of this warmth‚ is thus a vital and normal part of his life. It brings warmth and comfort yet it can also cause pain and sickness. Throughout most of his life Meursault has lived with the

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