In The Scarlet Letter‚ by revealing sin’s debilitating power on Dimmesdale‚ Hawthorne constructs a tale of human frailty and sorrow‚ thus highlighting that mankind is innately weak. Reverend Dimmesdale was both physically and mentally affected by the guilt of keeping his sin a secret‚ and was ultimately weakened enormously due to it. Because of his high status as a reverend‚ Dimmesdale was not able to tell the townspeople that he was the mysterious man who had committed adultery with Hester. This
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British professor and historian Robert Conquest also brings his view on the topic in his book The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine published in 1986. Conquest has written many books on the Soviet Union and was in fact an open communist in England up until the Second World War started. His thesis is that the famine was purposeful and thus constitutes genocide. He says that Stalin wanted to subdue Ukrainian nationalism‚ and the way Stalin believed to do that was to kill
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The artist name is Judith Goldstein‚ a child Holocaust survivor‚ and she was born in Vilna‚ Poland. The name of her work of art is Joys and Sorrow. In 1941‚ the Nazis sent most of Vilna’s Jews to the Ghetto where Judith and her family spent the next two years. Following the liquidation of the Ghetto in 1943‚ Judith and her mother spent the next two years in concentration camps in Latvia and Poland. Somehow‚ Judith‚ her mother‚ and her brother survived and were sent to a banished person’s camp in
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and discourse of history. Although the aggression of war and manslaughter are commonly presented in history literature‚ the sociocultural and psychological aspects are often avoided due to the “intrusiveness” nature that it carries. Two mentionable films that try to address the suppression of the true portrayal of the impact of memory on the people who have suffered through tragic events‚ are Los Rubios (2003) by Albertina Carri and Milk of Sorrow (2009) by Claudia Llosa. The two movies have
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With reference to at least four poems‚ explain how poets present both the joys and sorrows of life. Poets such as W.H. Auden‚ Bruce Dawe‚ Roger Mcgough and Elaine Savory clearly present the joys and sorrows of life in their truthful and realistic poems‚ using a range of techniques. These negative and positive aspects of life are shown by the poets‚ by using everyday occurrances like death‚ loss and love to involve the reader. All four poems‚ ‘Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone’‚ ‘Going’
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When I discovered the “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” by John Koenig I came across a term that struck me and changed my outlook on the world. The word is sonder. Sonder is the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. This means that there are 7 billion stories passing by everyday and the only story I used to focus on was my own. It made me curious about the inner thoughts‚ struggles‚ and ambitions of all the strangers around me. As an introvert‚ I
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The excerpt A Sorrowful Woman can be regarded as a sequel to A Secret Sorrow. Both stories have a lot of similarities than they do differences‚ it’s as if the author of A Sorrowful Woman intended for her short story to be the twisted sequel of A Secret Sorrow. In the story a secret sorrow the woman loved her husband so much that she was trying to leave him because she couldn’t have children and she didn’t want him to feel trapped in a marriage with her and she couldn’t give him what he wants. In
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CHAPTER II——OF SORROW No man living is more free from this passion than I‚ who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others‚ and yet generally the world‚ as a settled thing‚ is pleased to grace it with a particular esteem‚ clothing therewith wisdom‚ virtue‚ and conscience. Foolish and sordid guise! —["No man is more free from this passion than I‚ for I neither love nor regard it: albeit the world hath undertaken‚ as it were upon covenant‚ to grace it with a particular favour. Therewith
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Claire of the Sea Light portray the sea as a symbol of sorrow‚ yet as necessary. The first verse outright links the sea with sorrow; However‚ Claire’s response to it highlights both the good and the bad about the sea. As Nosias and Gaelle pull Max Junior out of the water as Claire makes up the second verse‚ they also pull him away from the despair and sorrow that cause him to attempt suicide. The verses therefore expose the sea as symbolic of sorrow. The first verse and Claire’s thoughts on it reveal
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Edgar Allen Poe’s poem‚ “The Raven”‚ illustrates the overwhelming feeling of loneliness and sorrow that comes with the loss of someone special. In the poem‚ “The Raven”‚ the speaker opens up by explaining the setting of the poem as a “dreary” night and that he is “weak and weary” (Line 1). The speaker notes that he is full of sorrow on that night‚ with his mind focused on his lost loved one. He is so focused‚ he becomes delusional‚ hearing a tapping at his door. He ignores it‚ and goes on how it
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