5 Thoughts That Match Theme for Chapter 1

The first thing described in the chapter is the grass-plot before the jail, and how it was previously inhabited a large number of people. Another is  the baby looking away from the sunlight as it steps outside of a darkened room (the baby could be evil?). The scaffold made of wood is described as the sole definition of ignominy, meaning that it is shameful to the people as it represents nature's ability to be dark and represents things besides good. A fourth is how the home made of stone beginning to decay can still be viewed as beautiful as well as a home. The fifth and final use of nature is the unadulterated sunshine. The sunshine is the only thing that is noticeable among the chaos and is not as pleasant as it would be if people were not in the presence of a different woman who does not entirely understand what is going on.

The Scarlet Letter - First Chapter Theme

The theme that Hawthorne uses in the first paragraph of The Scarlet Letter is the importance of nature. He describes all the details of a rose-bush as well as using it to describe how nature's weather-stains and not being maintained can be an unappealing sight. He uses nature to symbolize how pleasant things may occur, or how these pleasant things can be overshadowed by darkness. For example, he says that the rose-bush is beautiful, but around it were once trees that were killed to make way for something else.

Pg. 432 1-4, 6-8

1.) He is invited by an old friend, Roderick Usher
2.) She becomes sicker than she had been and leads to death
3.) He is afraid of doctors digging up her body due to her strange disease
4.) No, it lacks the details that he uses to vividly describe the gloominess of the story.
6.) Setting  - Poe describes the room as a dark entrapment that allows little to no light in, meaning that the entire house is full of darkness.
      Character Traits - The man was a very dark type of person, who enjoyed no type of food, no music, and wore clothes of only specific texture.
    Plot Developments - Madeline becomes more sick and eventually dies
    Imagery - The wind was so great it almost brought them off the ground, and the wind storm had a rather negative feeling about it outside.
7.) Poe wrote The Fall of the House of Usher as a mirror into his own life, writing about himself as Roderick Usher and using Madeline, his wife who died at a young age, as a way to describe the dejection in his life that he felt after her death.
8.) No, I do not consider it meaningless, because to say that an author writing about himself is meaningless would deem millions of important historical articles meaningless. He simply writes about how the gloominess of life appears and indirectly describes how it affected him by allowing the reader to read the story as the narrator.

Woman in the 19th Century Questions 1-4

1.) She believed that women should be treated as a living mind2.) She is better than other women who act like just women and not living minds
3.) The main idea is that women should act as if they are there own person and be true to themselves regardless of what the male society wants them to be.
4.) That she needs to disregard other people's points of view to be true to herself

Pg. 397 Questions 1-4, 7

1.) The moral law of one's self and what he or she believes to be right
2.) Non-violently protest it by not participating in the demands of the law.
3.) Some men serve like machines, others with their conscience, and others morality. He believed that the conscience was the right way
4.) Not necessarily, because it is still just as easy not to pay taxes, however, the government will not be the first people to hunt you down like they were back then.
7.) He seems like more of a patriot to me but also acts as a traitor to show that he believed differently in things like the Mexican-American war. He asked important questions about conflicts he believed differently in but would disobey the laws non-violently. Because of the non-violent protesting, he seems patriotic, but because of the general idea of disregarding the law, he seems like a traitor.

Civil Disobedience Theme

In Civil Disobedience, Emerson uses the theme of civil responsibility to show that people should speak up when they believe that something is wrong. Even though the majority of the population may not agree with what you believe in, you should stand up and do something about it regardless. He argues that a corporation with conscience men is a corporation with a conscience. Because they have one, they should be doing what is right. Law is not always a just use of justice, but the men who use the right laws in the right way by presenting the proper argument about the law, however, is. He believes that unjust laws should be acted against and disobeyed until the laws are abolished or amended.

Page 388 Questions 1-3, 6, 7

1.) To find himself
2.) Simplify yourself with few things
3.) Once you've seen one thing you don't need to see it again, and you should not poke your head in other people's business like the media
6.) He believes that poor society is the most independent-lived life by support of honest means. They are the least negatively influenced by others' opinions. He believes that the poor are in the best position to experience life.