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Human Nature: Beautiful and Beastly. Kelci Beatty, Slammin Salmon (Nick Miller), Scott Keffer , Terae Moxey. Human Nature Overview . Human nature has a great capacity for evil May be dark deep down, but even deeper is eternal beauty Always beauty within the dark - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Human Nature: Beautiful and Beastly
Kelci Beatty, Slammin Salmon (Nick Miller), Scott Keffer, Terae Moxey
Human Nature Overview
Human nature has a great capacity for evil May be dark deep down, but even deeper is
eternal beauty Always beauty within the dark Scarlett Letter shows that internal beauty can
over come sin and darkness
Important Character: Hester
Prime example of eternal beauty Scarlett letter masks womanhood and youth Sin masks beauty Externally tired and aged Internally strong, prideful, and beautiful
ThemesTranscendentalism
People are naturally good
Individuality People will do what
they believe Staying strong
through hardships
Sanctity of the Heart
Beneath sin is still strong
Heart is the only thing your own
Individual (who you are)
ThesisIn human nature there is always beauty beneath the surface of people, even though they appear to be dark; Hester’s natural beauty is masked by her sins and she appears to be dark and aged, unlike her natural self that is beautiful
and young.
Quote 1“He laid his right upon the shoulder of a
young woman…in the threshold of the prison door, she repelled him, by an
action marked with dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air,
as of by her own free will”(Chapter 2, page 62)
Meaning of Quote 1 Hester’s repulsion of the guard shows her inner
strength Inner strength=beautiful—not fully engulfed in
darkness
Quote 2“Hester Prynne with a mind of nature, courage, and
activity, and for so long a period merely estranged, but outlawed for society…Her intellect and heart
had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his
woods.”(Chapter 18, page 239)
Meaning of Quote 2
Internal beauty and strength helped Hester through hard times
Strength not always visible but it’s always there
Quote 3“The burden of shame and anguish departed
further from her spirit. Oh, exquisite relief!...Her sex, her youth, and the whole
richness of her beauty came back from what meant men call the irrevocable
past.”(Chapter 18, page 243)
Meaning of Quote 3
Once the SL is removed beauty returns Sin and darkness will mask inter beauty
One must find a way to show beauty in the darkness
Quote 4“But, on the one side of the portal, and rooted almost
at the thresh hold, was a wild rose-bush… which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and
fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his
doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.”(Chapter 1, page 56)
Meaning of Quote 4
Rose-bush symbolizes beauty Even during punishment for sin beauty can still
be found
Quote 5“Mother says little Pearl, the sunshine does not love
you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom.”
(Chapter 16, page 220)
Meaning of Quote 5
SL masks Hester’s beauty and happiness Noticeable that the SL is the reason behind her
darkness