.... of using the pillory, which would lock a person's head and hands together where they could not move and be forced to not be able to show their humiliation. “No outrage more flagrant to forbid the culprit to hide his face from shame,” is in Hawthorne's commentary on page 53. Hawthorne's commentary appears twice on this page (about more than one topic) and you can see them in my highlighted sections. What really got to me was the second highlighted section on that page where Hawthorne is comparing/contrasting the nurturing image of a mother and her son to Prynne. The passage speaks of Prynne's sin tainting the image, therefo .....

.... sin of creating another monster he may be rid of both monsters forever. "With the companion you bestow I will quit the neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor, if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that the monsters will not keep their promise and stay in Europe envoking fear into townfolk. The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good of the world. The monsters can potentially take over whatever they please. "A race of devils would be propegated,"(pg. 163) thinks Frankenstein .....

.... wife, and her friends. Mrs. Phelps, when asked by Montag how her children are, abruptly answers saying "No one in his right mind, the good lord knows, would have children!" (104) Mrs.Bowles, a mother of two, has an answer for Mrs. Phelps. However, with her response, Bradbury effectively conveys the cold uncompassionate and selfish morals in which Montag's world exists: "I've had two children by Caesarian section. No use going through all that agony for a baby . . . I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month . . . You heave them into the 'parlor' and turn .....

.... the loss of Paul's innocence. The change from idealism to disillusionment is really the driving force behind the novel. From young school boys, listening to their schoolmaster asking "Won't you join up comrades?"(11) to "weary, broken"(294) men, idealism and disillusionment play a major role on Paul's decisions and thoughts. For example, on the second page of the novel, Paul says, "It would not be such a bad war if only one could get a little more sleep." (2) Later in the book, a disillusioned Paul says of the same war, "I see how people are set against one another and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obedie .....

.... and violence to accomplish his passionate desire. “ He is an emissary of pity and science and progress; and devil knows what else.” (Conrad, 92). It is believed that there is evil in everyone and it can be triggered by mere stupidity of man. The evil in Kurtz is unleashed because he choose his deep desires for ivory and did not look ahead in the future of what will become of him. Consequently, his soul is consumed for eternal damnation. "The improper use of knowledge is another example that symbolizes the Heart of Darkness. One of Kurtz’s advantages is his deep voice and his ability to speak. That man could .....

.... treats her mother with disdain, and does everything she can to emphasize her own individuality. She professes to believe in nothing. She is a proud intellectual and has little doubt of her belief in “nothingness.” However, ironically in the end she is proven to be very much like her mother in that she falls prey to the same naïve stereotypes as her mother. She believes Manley Pointer to be “Good Country People,” and is shocked to find out that he is not the good Christian bible salesman she thought him to be. As we first meet Manley Pointer he is trying to sell Mrs. Hopewell a Bible. When she is not intere .....

.... is an intruder who takes the place of a natural offspring and becomes the sole focus of the family. This circumstance foreshadows a life of a child who tries to be something that is impossible. Heathcliff can never be more than what he is. He can never be accepted as a natural son in the Earnshaw family. Regardless of what he does or how hard he tries, he will always be the interloper. Early in the novel, Heathcliff is picked on by Hindly and he assumes a assertive and threatening posture. “You must exchange horses with me: I don’t like mine: and if you won’t I shall tell your father of the three thrashing yo .....

.... out from their society and required to wear an embroidered “A” on her bosom in punishment. Hester felt guilt for her sin the rest of her life and sought repentance and absolution until the time she died. Hester never had true love for Chillingworth, but was tricked into marriage. She later told him this while speaking in her jail cell saying to him, “... thou knowest that I was frank with thee, I felt no love, nor feigned any.” Hester was betrayed, tricked and allowed herself to become caught up in the evil desires of another. She then allowed herself to be trapped by sin, causing great remorse in he .....

.... but when artists imitate what is bad they are adding to the sum of badness in the world; and it is easier to copy a bad man than a good man, because the bad man is various and entertaining and extreme, while the good man is quiet and always the same. Artists are interested in what is base and complex, not in what is simple and good. They induce the better part of the soul to ‘relax its guard’. Thus images of wickedness and excess may lead even good people to indulge secretly through art feelings which they would be ashamed to entertain in real life. We enjoy cruel jokes and bad taste in the theater, then behave boor .....

.... who Cologero admired).Cologero's father, Lorenzo wanted nothing to do with Sonny or the mob. As a result, when the police detectives questioned Cologero about the murder, Lorenzo insisted his son knew nothing of it.This led Cologero to believe that his father didn't want him to tell the truth. The detectives took Cologero outside to point out the murderer and Cologero denied that any of them were at the scene of the crime.Sonny then befriended Cologero and gave him the nickname "C".This shows that Cologero's father influenced him to lie to the police because Lorenzo led his son to believe he didn't want him to tell the trut .....