.... out, he became very angry at losing his wife; she had betrayed him. He responded by trying to kill the other party, Arthur Dimmesdale. Revenge had turned a once normal man into a blood seeking, greedy, stingy, and decrepitly weak old man. Revenge was also the driving force behind the Abigail Walker's, a character in The Chamber, accusations of Elizabeth Proctor being a witch. John Proctor and Abigail Williams once had an affair. John was lonely and in need of human comfort, comfort his wife was unable to give in her dying state. However when she regained her health, John left Abigail and went back to his wife. Abigail was furious at his decisio .....

.... church, tending to his crops on Sundays, and committing adultery. John Proctor is a independent man, who is loyal to his family, but has been adulterous in his past. John Proctor has been characterized Independent, only because of his Independent actions. In Act One, he independently went to Rev. Parris’ house to fetch his servant Mary Warren, he could have asked his wife or sons to accompany him but does not. Also in act one he attacked the Puntnam’s without any help, all on his own. Proctor seems to run his own life and run his family by himself. In act three when he goes on trial, he is accused of tending to his farm. But the fact .....

.... sense of accomplishment and agree to celebrate with a night on the town. Elisa is earthbound, rooted securely in her garden but also held down by her connection to it. Their house is described as “hard-swept� and “hard-polished,� and is the only outlet for her talents. However, Elisa needs something more in her life than a neat house and a good garden. Their marriage is childless and conventional and she has begun to sense that an important part of her is dying and that her future will be predictable and mundane. Elisa is a barren woman who has transferred her maternal impulses to her garden, a garden full of unborn seedlings. On the oth .....

.... until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone'"(59). Society places its blames upon this woman. It is because of this one letter that Hester's life is changed. The letter's meaning in Puritan society banishes her from her normal life. The Puritans view this letter as a symbol of the devil. The letter also put Hester through torture: "Of an impulse and passionate nature. She had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely wreaking itself in every variety of insult but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid .....

.... and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of democratic Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in .....

.... played an essential role in Catcher in the Rye. The first person perspective was used because it was necessary to know all of Holden’s thoughts. Throughout the story instances of Holden’s beliefs and speech evolve the external conflict. “He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did.� Here Holden was stating his thoughts on his roommate. The quote suggests that the roommate was fake because he would appear well groomed, but underneath he was a slob. The majority of the story was about Holden contemplating over the faults of society. Holden’s views were the .....

.... Pearl, Hester's child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes, is extremely smart, pretty, and nice. More often than not, she shows her intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. (The reader will recall that anything affiliated with the forest was evil to Puritans. To Hawthorne, however, the forest was beautiful and natural.) "And she was gentler here .....

.... Huck. Pap cannot read and does not want his son to be better than himself. Pap doesn't like the fact that Widow Douglas is trying to "civilize" him. Pap comes home every night and physically abuses Huck. During the day Pap would lock Huck in the cabin until he returned in order to keep Huck from escaping. Nothing can harm a child more than neglect and abuse. The two ladies that take Huck in off the streets are Mrs. Watson and the Widow Douglas. Mrs. Watson has several slaves, one of whom was Jim. It gets to the point where she had no more use for Jim, so she decides to sell him to New Orleans. Her actions are going to separate and des .....

.... their despondency, subsequently restoring the usual lifestyle, unfortunately for them. Kino’s destiny was much demoralizing, in the actuality that his whole life was contaminated by the meager existence of the treasure. The decease of his son, and the tension between Juana, his wife, and him, triggered Kino’s breakdown. Because Kino was exceedingly possessed by the prosperity the pearl might possibly produce for him, he even assaulted Juana, as a result of her recognizing that the pearl and the greed it caused was gradually diminishing Kino and her community’s lucidness. Although Kino assumed that selling the pearl would improv .....

.... of the real world. The literary term for such a technique is the use of a "microcosm" - a small universe representative of a larger one. Kesey uses the environment of the mental asylum to demonstrate just how hypocritical society can be. As aforementioned, Kesey utilizes many symbols that represent elements in the real world. The very fact that the story takes place in a mental asylum is in itself a commentary on society. In the asylum, it becomes highly evident that a great deal of oppression takes place. Although a considerable amount of abuse is in the physical form, most of it manifests itself in subtle psychological torture. The abuse that spe .....