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…Scarlet Letter: Nearly a Historical Document Psychological insight, true love, untrue love, self-hate, sin, and redemption, could Nathaniel Hawthorne have possibly juggled with more ideas while recording The Scarlet Letter? The answer is yes…

…. Wright, the bird symbolized herself. She was trapped in the cage of marriage, as the bird was trapped in a literal cage. Mrs. Wright loved that bird, but Mr. Wright hated its singing, and so he wrung its neck. In turn Mrs. Wright “wrung” his neck. Without ever…

…lived was colonial, revolutionary, almost Cromwellian, as though he were steeped, from his greatest grandmother¡¦s birth, in the odor of political crime. Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world…

…in that parish…it is a boy to bear his name.”(330). Additionally, he accuses Desiree of not being white (a crime against his family’s “purity”) which she abruptly denies. “It is a lie it is not true, I am white Look at my hair, it is brown and my eyes are gray…

…, swimming, and his other trickery. Coincidently these were things Gene despised Finny for. Later in the novel, Finny shows his understanding for Gene’s crime in this paragraph: "I’ve gotten awfully mad sometimes and almost forgotten what I was doing. Something…

…is murdered or lynched. We learn about them when Morrison writes, “More important, they believed the crimes they committed were legitimate because they were committed in the heat of passion: anger, jealousy, loss of face, and so on.” (P 100) Here we see how too…

…that he is in the room, so he covers her face with a pillow and accidentally smothers her to death. Unaware that Mary is dead, Mrs. Dalton prays and then leaves the room. Bigger tries to cover his crime by burning Mary's body in the Daltons…

…” History says the first crime ever committed by one person against another is murder. There are so many things that can motivate a murder such as love, hate, jealousy, and, revenge. Both Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” and Dubus’s story “Killings…

…there are requirements a character must possess to be considered a tragic hero. One requirement is that he has to be a man of noble stature or kingship. He must also possess extraordinary powers. The tragic hero is good but must commit an act of injustice or a crime which…

…-protection, will prevent hate crimes incurred against individuals who are able to defend themselves. We must never overlook the fact that everyday, a number of children are killed by guns whether in assault, or by lethal accidents. Handguns claim more lives…