... said Marguerite Blakeney, as soon as she saw him approaching ... a happy smile shone on her face, even through the tears." (53). After Armand's departure, Marguerite is faced with an "either---or" situation. Either she helps identify the Scarlet Pimpernel and her brother is safe or she denies the help and basically signs Armand's death wish. [S]he must make up her mind whether she ... upon her brother and struggles to make things right. Later in the plot, a mysterious Jew and Chauvelin, the antagonist are on the trail of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Marguerite follows them closely along the F...

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... emotion is shown. The story shows who the characters really are and what they are all about. In the song A Praise Chorus the band Jimmy Eat World expresses many feelings that the four main characters in the book have. Both the story and the song show the pain, guilt, wondering, and love Hester, Pearl, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale feel. The book The Scarlet Letter shows the consequences of peoples actions ... and how everything does not work out the way one has planed. In the song A Praise Chorus the beginning lines express what Hester and ... long a period not merely estranged, but out...

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Love or Lust? *Lust can be twisted and manipulated into something that one could mistake for love, but the actual feeling itself is much more meaningful and sincere. The Scarlet Letter is not a love story, far from a Romeo and Juliet. It's an account of the strict morals of the Puritan belief and the hypocrisy of which these morals are nurtured. It is never Hawthorne's intention to lose ... the theme of the book by straying the reader's attention towards the love of Hester Prynne and the reverend Dimmesdale. Hester's love is simply ... return. Dimmesdale could not love Hester even had his he...

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... herself to get back on their feet. Eventually they make money again. Scarlet and Rhett actually end up getting married. Scarlet still thinks she is in love with Ashley. Rhett and Scarlet live very comfortably and have a daughter. One day their daughter tries to jump on her horse falls off and dies. This tears Rhett and Scarlet apart because their daughter was the only thing holding them ... together. Shortly afterwards Melanie is on her deathbed and Ashley tells Scarlet he never really loved ... her. Scarlet now realizes she is really in love with Rhett. It is to late, Rhett ... ...

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... , but she still treats Pearl as her only treasure and dresses her up every day. Hester dresses up Pearl to look nice just like she does to the scarlet letter itself. Pearl is Hester's misery, punishment but she is also her only happiness, as she is sent as a blessing and as retribution to remind Hester of her fall from ... society pressure. She is such a free and lively girl that never can be restricted by the rules. She is like the stream which "danced, sparkled,and prattled airily along her course." (p163) She has the tacit understanding with flowers, birds, forests and the nature. " ...

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According to Shakespeare's Let Me not to the Marriage of True Minds, when one is in love you must admit your faults. It is not love if you cannot get through a tough time in your relationship. If love is true, then both partners will stay true. Love is secure and constant; it will never change over time. It can guide you when you feel lost. If you feel that your love has gone astray, follow your heart; if it is meant to be, it will find a way back. Although no one can understand it, everyone goes the distance for love. Love is when you stick by that one person through thick and thin, no matter...

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... had, how horrible it was and what it would lead to. Hurst allowing the reader to go into the character's mind enabled the reader to pick up on the narrator's pride for himself. Not only did Hurst use the thought of the narrator to illustrate the theme, but he also used the character actions as well. The narrator's action towards Doodle showed that he had too much pride to let ... his brother ruin it for him. The only reason why the narrator taught his younger bother ... in life we let our overwhelming pride for something or someone get in the way of what really matters. Just like in "T...

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... had, how horrible it was and what it would lead to. Hurst allowing the reader to go into the character's mind enabled the reader to pick up on the narrator's pride for himself. Not only did Hurst use the thought of the narrator to illustrate the theme, but he also used the character actions as well. The narrator's action towards Doodle showed that he had too much pride to let ... his brother ruin it for him. The only reason why the narrator taught his younger bother ... in life we let our overwhelming pride for something or someone get in the way of what really matters. Just like in "T...

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... -minded town. Although Pearl had sprung from sin, she was a symbol of love. As the reader learns of the abuse that Arthur puts on himself, one can assume that he does it in order to feel some of the pain that Hester had gone through. Ernest Sandeen said, "If [Arthur's] sin were a matter of a single impulsive act which belonged to ought to have been ... sin is left behind you"" (Sandeen 353.) Telling him that he never had to feel bad for their previous sexual encounter ever again, he only continued his abuse upon himself. The "A" imprinted on Arthur's chest is a great mystery of the novel...

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... it to just feel its smoothness. On the other hand, when Gang compares the flower to the yellow mountain he uses contrasting words, for example "sweetness encloses slyness" and "intimacy and distance" to show the dual nature of beauty and love. The location of the flower is not as "sweet" as the red flower itself. The red flower s located on the cliff side of the mountain. In order for a person ... to reach the destination of the flower it would take a ... lot of courage. Yes, the flower is vivid an attractive, but getting the flower is very risky. Furthermore, like the location of the ...

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... her own free will Hester has to face major punishments. She has to serve many months in prison, stand on the scaffold for three hours under public scrutiny, and attach a scarlet letter, "A" on her chest every day as long as she remained in the town of Boston. The letter "A" was to show Hester Prynne as an adulteress and as an immoral human being. Her refusal to ... . One reason Hester was alienated was her objection to revealing the other adulterer. When Hester is released from prison and put on the scaffold, she was asked to reveal the name of whom she committed the sin with. Having a h...

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... were pulled out and thrown out of his castle, he was desperate to live. He finds Tom on the way, so he asks Tom to lead him to Dover. Surprisingly in their conversation, Gloucester developed the sense of humility which giving the message to the rich: "Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not ... who has an evil plan to take his title and possession. The two plot encounter at Act 4 Scene 5 where Lear and Gloucester meet at the cliff near Dover. Gloucester now awake from his mental blindness while Lear still struggling in t...

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... her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin, for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since " (147). The truth of Hester's scarlet letter changed; it no longer represented her weakness and evil, instead ... or completely good, their environment shapes them and they choose whether to be good or evil . How important is nature? "But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imag...

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... begins to find love and happiness. Then, Jake erupts back into her life making Sigrid face her past and also her strong and confusing feelings for him. The story first takes place in a remote cottage on the moors of Scotland, where Sigrid is kept like a prisoner, isolated and alone. After trying to escape from Jake, he violently assaults her, and she is admitted ... named Matt. John has known Matt for a while and they are good friends. With many common interests, Sigrid and Matt start spending a lot of time together. On a trip out of town, Beth, John and the twins leave Sigrid alone to ...

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... for forgiveness. God was not a Father but strictly a judge. Mercy was not an option. Guilt on the other hand was the one way of measuring how sorry one was of the sin they had committed. This was the one aspect that comforted Dimmesdale. No one carried the guilt of their action as well and sincerely as he did. He would evidence this by long walks. He ... that Dimmedale's confession would not end the reproach of the people on him. So in His demonstration of love, He takes him home. In summary the story of The Scarlet Letter is nothing more than the absence of the Father in the lives of H...

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... produced by regretful actions. John Proctor's past actions with Abigail Williams causes jealousy. John had an affair with his maid Abbie. It was due to the coldness he was recieving from his wife, Elizabeth. She soon became aware of their behavior and fired Abbie with great hate. Proctor breaks it off with ... that John wanted Elizabeth more than her and soon her hatred grew and grew. But Elizabeth was still angry with John and had the same feelings for Abbie. Soon after all the accuzations began, Abbie had Elizabeth accused of witchcraft. This was an action taken out of a hate and jealou...

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... him and to be comforted by his tender embrace: "I nodded my head as I lay on the bed." On the third and final day after Elisa accepts her love's offer to take away all of her pain he takes her to where the wild roses grow. There on the banks where the wild roses grow the man murders Elisa merely muttering "All beauty must die." Elisa is referred to as ... . The man often connects Elisa to a rose especially in beauty: "For her lips were the colour of the roses." The final connection he makes is placing a rose between her teeth after killing her down by the river where the wild roses grow....

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... thing to love, her young son Paul. Her feelings toward her children, especially Paul, are exemplified when her children are around. She feels the centre of her heart go hard. Everyone thought of her as a great mother who loved her children, but only she knew that her heart was a hard little place that could ... not feel love for anyone, not even her children who desperately need it. Success for the mother is acquiring more wealth to hide her inadequacies. Their family was poor, although they didn't appear to be. The mother spent the money that they had and more at times. It is human nat...

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... she meets a young hunter, who is also an ornithologist, whom she soon begins to greatly admire, but is troubled by the fact that he shoots the very birds that she loves. From her experiences with the hunter, Sylvia learns a few things about growing up and making mature decisions. Because Sylvia has a close relationship with nature ... -as for Sylvia herself, it seemed as if she had never been alive at all before she came to live at the farm- (326). Sylvia feels as though she belongs in the woods. She loves and respects nature as she wanders about, exploring her beautiful world. Since Sy...

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... of an Hour," written by Kate Chopin, irony of a situation is emphasized too show meaning to the story. After Louise finds out the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard, Louise's first reaction was to depart in a "storm of grief" with "wild abandonment" (Chopin 3). However ... began to sit in her chair alone in her room and started to "reach in to her soul" (Chopin 4). Because of the death of her husband, Louise starts to realize the "new spring life"(Chopin 5) and all her surroundings she has never examined before. With her new state of mind Louise becomes jovial ... because...

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... despair. Through his love he has betrayed her and led her even more deeply into sin. And so her love turns to hatred of the betrayer. Love has little chance of surviving against the intensity of her concern for her own purity and clarity of conscience. For her there can be none of ... doing, that she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants to cleanse herself of sin, she must cease to accept the role of wife. At first she tries to deal with this by begging her "husband" to leave her, but when he refuses, saying that it would confirm ... is her madness, she be...

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... , without love. Gatsby died without achieving his goal in life, to have his true love, Daisy all to himself. Should somebody really die like this? The endings in the novel, "The Great Gatsby", can be changed dramatically. In the novel, "The Great Gatsby", I think Gatsby should have killed Tom, thinking that he would have Daisy all to himself. After Tom was killed, Daisy would disappear ... book that would make Gatsby happy would be that, Tom and Jordan are flirting and dancing and having fun all night at one of Gatsby's parties. Nick is watching them the whole night and becomes very jeal...

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... with her and her boyfriend Willy Jack driving out to California for his big music career break. Willy Jack portrays a typical "abusive boyfriend" role in the story. While driving out to California Novalee asks to stop at a Wal-Mart to stretch, and buy a couple things. Willy Jack ends up leaving her ... . Novalee meets many people during her stay such as Benny Good luck, Moses White cotton, and her savior Forney Hull. Forney Hull aided with the birth of her child, and is the future love of her life. When her baby girl is born, she names her Americus Nation, aiming for a powerful title for...

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... Lysander and she wants to marry him. Hermia was not willing to give up her true love and she didn't mind being brought to meet the Duke. She still insisted to the Duke that she would not marry Demetrius. This can be seen clearly when Hermia quotes "..whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give sovereignty..,. ... towards Lysander as she had to go through all this trouble. Other than that, Hermia's true love was also put to the test when Demetrius was crazily in love with her. All thorough the play, she was very faithful to Lysander as she kept rejecting Demetrius even thought at one...

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... but as time progresses Ophelia experiences many hurtful and confusing events that causes her to lose her mind and eventually her life. It is made clear from the beginning of the play that Ophelia has feelings for Hamlet and vice versa. Ophelia's father, Polonius, and her brother, Laertes, both advise her to forget about Hamlet ... . Even though she is in love with Hamlet she decides to put her emotions aside in order to please her father and brother. When Hamlet reads the letter that Ophelia wrote he begins to act strangely towards her. This leads her to believe that his love for her has ...

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