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…in reproduction. These beliefs are held, consciously or unconsciously, by the majority of men and women the world over. In Mariama Ba's work So Long a Letter, Ba creates two central and strong female characters who contradict the standard role of women in African…

…In the novel The Scarlet Letter, perhaps the most interesting and hated character was Roger Chillingworth. When Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this book he spent a great deal of time analyzing and defining his characters through their traits…

…Character Analysis of Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter is a story of characters that have to live and deal with the effects of sin in different ways. Of these characters, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the character portrayed as the most…

…highly punishable if convicted. Nathaniel Hawthorne's portrayal of authoritarian society in The Scarlet Letter shows his fascination and disgust with the Puritan belief system. The character, Arthur Dimmesdale, exemplifies the outward desecration of man…

…Muslim women of other cultures had to endure. "So Long a Letter" is a sequence of reminiscences, some wistful, some bitter, recounted by Senegalese school teacher Ramatoulaye, who has recently been widowed. In a letter to her friend, Aissatou…

…Throughout his book The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne is preoccupied with the relationship between the individual and society. Hester's sin and subsequent condemnation alienate her. No where is this alienation more apparent than…

…"Hidden Guilt Abolishes Selfhood" Those who keep their sins and feelings to themselves cause themselves only anguish and despair. In The Scarlet Letter, a romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is a young man who achieved fame…

…My dearest wife, I have missed you dearly during these last couple of months and I inscribe this letter to tell you that I am fine and able-bodied and hath survived and won the battle against the Norwegians. Many of my partners in war have been killed…

…from was terrible. I can't see why we can't just live as a country and accept the differences between us. What is life for you like fighting for the western Union Army? It must be way different from Maryland. It will be hard getting this letter to you…

…“You must needs be a stranger in this region…else you would surly have heard of the Mistress Hester Prynne, and her evil doings.”(pg 42) This quote is from one of two very similar but different stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Scarlet Letter…