The Scarlet Pimpernel

In Emmuska Orczy’s novel “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, Citizen Chauvelin is the villain and antagonist. Chauvelin is a French agent hell-bent on sending the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist of the story, to the guillotine for aiding French aristocrats in escaping from their certain death during the French Revolution. For my project, I chose to create a board using pictures that I think Chauvelin would love. Chauvelin loves his country and would do anything to dispose of anyone or anything that…

In The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy exposes her readers to the early stages of the French Revolution and the twisted politics and machinations that abound. The reader experiences the exploits and domestic troubles of Lord Peter Blakeney. Masquerading as a dashing rogue called the Scarlet Pimpernel, Percy Blakeney courageously and daringly rescues a multitude of French Nobles destined for the guillotine. Whether in his personal Peter Blakeney is a fascinating individual with many intriguing…

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a film that tells the story of an English nobleman known as Sir Percy, a man with a secret heroic identity. To the rest of society, Sir Percy can be known as a witty, almost foolish man. However, only very little people know that Sir Percy is actually The Scarlet Pimpernel, a hero to the French aristocrats who are sentenced to death for the smallest of violations. Throughout the film Sir Percy comes across his rival, Chauvelin, who is determined to find out the…

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst tells a story of two brothers, Brother and Doodle. Brother is narrating the tale from an adult perspective. Doodle’s life is very difficult, everyone thought he was going to perish; he pulled through because of love with a small twist of wickedness. Furthermore, Brother only wants to help Doodle to correspond with other children because he wants to avoid embarrassment of having a younger brother who cannot walk, this is only a battle with his self worth. As the…

While reading The Scarlet Letter, I was introduced to many characters such as Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl Prynne. Of all the main characters in the story, the person I most empathize with is Pearl. Even though Pearl is a little girl, I can understand, in a way, what she is going through. Throughout the beginning of the story, she has no idea who her father is. While I have known my father for my whole life i have known of people who have never met…

for another. (livescience.com) Scarlet macaws are the largest parrots in the world measuring almost a yard from beak to tail. Macaws live in large, noisy groups and are monogamous. They nest from January through April and mated adults will lay up to two eggs per year. They eat nuts, leaves, berries and seeds. They also eat fruits toxic enough to kill other animals and large amounts of clay which is thought to be a poison neutralizer. The main threats to the scarlet macaw are habitat loss…

The most important part of any story is the plot, but what is the most important part of the plot? As shown in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the characters are what drives the plot. Characters can drive the plot in a couple of ways that can be shown with The Scarlet Letter; they can be symbols, they can be used to show aspects of the plot in a more visual and less abstract way, and they will physically move the plot forward. Without the characters there is no plot and so by…

Revenge is one of the classic staples in drama, and its role in The Scarlet Letter is perhaps one of the greatest examples. The story is about Hester Prynne, a woman who tries to raise her daughter in a Puritanical society that shuns her for cheating on her husband, later revealed in the story as a man named Roger Chillingworth. As a result of this sinful deed, she is condemned to wear a scarlet letter, the letter “A”, as a reminder of the atrocity she had committed. Her lover is Arthur…

Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter. Every part of the work portrays meaning and every part is important. Therefore, to get an unabridged analysis of a character in the book, the reader must look at each action of the character and the character’s image in the book as a whole. Imagery, symbolism, and setting are important factors to take into account of throughout a literary work. Imagery denotes the visual description of the language. For instance, a point of imagery in The Scarlet Letter can be…

The Effects of Symbolism The Scarlet Letter is the magnum opus of Nathaniel Hawthorne and one of the most groundbreaking creations in American literature. As Hawthorne takes a society established to be a role model for all other immigrants like a City upon a Hill, he challenged the religious and political basis that formed our great nation. Simultaneously he discusses the morality, and moreover the immorality of the human race as a whole. The Scarlet Letter as a whole is an allegory of sin and…