... gleefully by Betty, Abigail, and Tituba to insure their own freedom from blame. With that, almost every woman in town is accused of being a witch, and the cycle continues.43 Another important example of hysterical paranoia from the Puritan era is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This novel does ... supernatural being, part devil, part medieval alchemist, and part evil scientist.47 Hester's daughter, Pearl, is described as a "demon child"48 who constantly taunts her mother. She is also another unnatural link to this story. It is of common belief that Mistress Hibbins, the town ...

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... the Childlike Empress sent one of her wise counsellor to find a hero, called Atreyu. The counsellor found this hero, but he was quite disappointed, for Atreyu was a child around the age of ten or twelve. He was a Greenskin, a kind of an Indian, their skin was green and their hair was blue-black. The Greenskin haunted purple ... . Felkor was his name, he was always optimistic and as he was a luckdragon he brought luck to whoever he was with. But Atreyu was up only for a short time he fainted again because of the poison. When he awoke again, he found that he was tended by a Gnomic, Urgl. H...

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... of what a family should be. Late in her time, as her life was drawing to a close, Pearl Tull laid in her bed with her "favorite" child, Ezra, nearby. Pearl had become almost completely blind and was about to die, but while her eyes could not see her mind was sharp as a needle. ... Beck she is now doing to her children. After his mother's death Cody would say that Beck "left them with a raving, shrieking, unpredictable witch" (294). Pearl apparently unknowing to her had a short fuse; she would explode at any moment with a fury of anger at her children. In a moment of rage Pearl once said...

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... of the best examples of Leeb's thesis statement is the fable about "The Emperor's New Clothes". In this fable, the strange being is the child that tells the smug community that the emperor has no clothes on. Of course everyone is aware of the fact, but the ... child is the catalyst that causes the reaction of exposed awareness. The child is simply exposing the obvious truth. What I would like to explore is what would have happened in these and other stories ... such ideas, but somehow I think that poor fellow must die." Dr. Trescott defended his efforts and all of his efforts concerning...

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• Grade Level: High School