Character Analysis Of Hester Prynne

Henry Lafayette Dubose shows both how the racism in Maycomb was very present and how it was normalized too. She normalizes racism when she called Atticus a “nigger lover”. Her using this phrase shows that she saw it as shameful to treat coloured folks equally, and she is very comfortable with saying it. Her racism is also clear when she says “Your father's no better than the niggers and trash that he works for!” [Lee 110].

Hester Prynne is described as a beautiful, tall, young, elegant, graceful, brunette, and ladylike. Her most dominant characteristic is the scarlet letter embroidered on her bosom, reflecting how her sin is the only thing the Puritans see when they look at her. 3. The omniscient narrator guides the reader into Hester’s head. As she walks to the scaffold, the reader learns that Hester is tortured and suffering and feels as if “her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon”.

In the crucible one of the themes was impacting false accusations. One of the accusations was how Abigail (one of our main characters), accused a poor woman named Sarah good that was a beggar. Abbey accused her of witchery by fainting and saying she saw her spirt. So when they told her that she was going to be hanged if she doesn’t confess she confessed. This shows how the court listened to anyone who “cries witchery”, Sarah was and easy target because she was the lowest class in society.

(Ch. 13, pg 107) She had gained respect for having raised her child as a well behaved young girl, and having provided for the both of them with an honest living as a seamstress, all the while being cut off from the rest of society. Hester was allowed to assimilate back into the community. John proctor was only given one chance to save himself and his wife, and that chance forced him to fall out of God’s good graces by lying. John Proctor fancied death over the guilt of being a sinner, and was content with knowing that his refusal to confess to witchcraft would preserve the good that he believed was still in him.

The accused citizens of Salem are all innocent. Elizabeth denies all belief in witchcraft because she has a pure soul, and she is a well-respected citizen of the village. Sarah Good is a homeless woman who confessed to witchcraft just to save her. John Proctor is an honorable man who has ethics and has never severely wronged anyone in his life. These people are the most noble and well- respected people of Salem.

A whimper, a peep?”(45,87) Now these quotes connote the worst of Melinda’s thoughts. The point where she didn't want to show people that she was in pain but let her body do that for her. Thats all that Melinda wanted, for people to see her hidden message of help. Melinda liked the pain she gave herself because that’s what she could only feel, since she was raped, to young to understand.

Her words and actions show her caring morals, as the French girl even risked her life to comfort Elie. After Elie was beaten by Idek the Kapo, he “ached all over. [He] felt a cool hand wiping [his] blood-stained forehead. It was the French girl. She gave [him] her mournful smile and slipped a bit of bread into [his] hand” (Wiesel 39).

When observing the stage directions, John Proctor can't look at Elizabeth when he asked about confessing. It's been shown he still has shame and guilt for what he's caused. John also respects Elizabeth’s opinion because of how honest she can be and how good of a woman she is. Elizabeth had state that she

Mrs. Auld was a kind person who was unlike other white women. Slaves could look her in the face and she smiled, putting the slaves at ease. She taught Douglass how to read but Mr. Auld forbade it because he said that teaching slaves how to read would give them a way to escape. Slavery began to cause Mrs. Auld to become cruel. Douglass described this change as “That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage...and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon.”

Khaled Hosseini has an interesting way of portraying the two female protagonists. He discloses the tyranny and hostility that the Taliban enforce on women just because of their sex. A critic viewed the novel as ‘a powerful portrait of female suffering’ making the reader explicitly aware of the harsh environment Mariam and Laila had to tolerate. One review expressed that ‘Hosseini defends the rights of women to decide what to be in life’ , this could show that Hosseini directed the novel to be in favour of feminist views. Hosseini’s first book ‘The Kite

There was so much evil in people. Even in a charming little town like this one, there was still so much evil in people.” Miss. Strangeworth disagreed with the way the Harris boy and Linda Stewart, two kids in the town, and her thoughts ran to claiming evil in the world, and she believes her letters are healing the town and cleansing it of its unrighteousness. Miss. Strangeworth has opinions and a patent point of view and embellished in the fact she is respected by all and believes her work, the letters, are what is right for her

90, Pathos Pg. 132. How & Effect: In this case, Ehrenreich fuses both her mental/physical feelings and work experiences into her rhetorical strategies. Due to this, the effect is that the readers are able to Ehrenreich’s frustration about her working conditions and the physical ailments that the poor workers suffer everyday because of their jobs; the credible exaggeration and emotional appeal effectively allows Ehrenreich to bring realization about poverty to the readers. Why: Ehrenreich’s main goal is to induce the readers about the fact that poverty is something that needs to be dealt with, through her credible and personal use of rhetorical

The symbols in The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson have figurative meanings to them that depict their role in the story. The flowers symbolize as a loved being for Miss Strangeworth since she takes care of them dearly and protects them from the wickedness in her town. The envelopes symbolize Miss Strangeworth wickedness spreading her cruelty and hurting other people. Miss Strangeworth pretends to be a kind person, but when no one is watching her she depicts the cruelty inside of her showing the possibility of evil inside of everybody. Artists and the writers make these symbols to provide lore and create an expansive world.

But she was very generous with the beatings, which often bordered on torture,” (Simon, 2014). This just shows how cruel people can be to those they do not know, and they don’t really care about them at all. This woman treated the children kindly, while the foster kids were treated horribly. This woman just did it for the money. An abundance of people will do this, just for the money and not care for the foster kids at.

I’m hard put, sometimes-baby, it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you”(108). Scout was asking Atticus about being a nigger-lover, and he explained to her that it is only an insult if she lets it bother her. Name- calling also shows how poor of a person the name caller is. In the courtroom, Atticus made an impact on the jury, but it just was not enough.