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…promotes the “honesty is the best policy” that can be found in so many other works, such as The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe. Rising Action: The action of the novel begins rising at the creation…

…younger sisters, Virginie and Josephine, and hearing his father’s tales of Emperor Napoleon’s wars. These stories were said to have stirred a strong patriotic passion in his heart that lasted until his death. As a little boy, Louis did not show any sign…

…It hardly takes a discerning eye to realize that life does not consist of fairy tale endings. That fact is all too apparent in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a work which has been labeled a tragedy by many critics. Robert Heilman defines a tragedy…

…of his workplace, the Custom House. Hawthorne finds that the story is one of romance, scandal, and deceit, and decides to retell the tale to the public. Hawthorne and Pue's combined efforts have made the scarlet letter a cultural icon, and have created…

…often about tales of pirates and divers. In school, he became particularly interested in engineering. When he was eleven he borrowed the blueprints for a 200 ton floating crane and made a model. He had added some special features which the engineers later…

…you in their lives to give greater passion to their fates. Mel Gibson shines in one of his earliest but renowned roles as the witty and good-hearted Frank Dunne and the wonderfully cast Mark Lee radiates as Archie Hamilton, the fun-loving, naive boy…

…d'oeuvre manifests itself upon the loom of the reader's intellect. This tapestry serves as a subtle background upon which the characters' sinful hearts are bared.         As Hawthorne navigates the reader through the passages of his dark tale, one…

…through the tree in both thin and wide beams that highlighted the greatest aspects of the house. It bounced off the small steps leading to the wrap-around porch and poured delicately through the heart shaped windows on the door. The sun spilt gently through…

…. However, in her own mind, she does not see her actions as a sin because she acts out of love. Furthermore, she redeems herself by turning her offense into a virtue. Through the tale of Hester Prynne, Hawthorne's moral is that the sin is not in adultery…

…" (168, prgh1) We get this image of the "caring wife" protecting a not-so-intelligent husband out of love and pity. This is Sally's perception of the truth. On the other hand we see her immaturity in her diction ("heart-men" "fix their hearts", "looked like…