In the Scarlet Letter compare and contrast the symbolism of the "black flower" of chapter 1 with the rose bush growing outside the prison door.

Inof , the black flower which is mentioned is
allegorical to the prison itself. The narrator speaks of the early days of the settlement which,
out of the dirt of their soil, built their village. The term "black flower" is used as
athat suggests that the dirt of the soil could only be capable to produce something as dingy and
ugly as a prison; a black flower.

..such unsightly
vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the
black flower of civilised society, a prison.

Contrastingly, at the foot of the prison...

Explain the sentence "Tyranny is tyranny let it come from whom it may," from A People's History of the United States.

In
A Peoples History of the United States, polemicistdevotes chapter 4, titled
Tyranny is Tyranny, to a protracted denunciation of the formation of the United States, the
authors of the nations founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, and the
Constitution. Zinns point was that, in throwing off the dictatorship of the British Crown, the
privileged elite of the 13 colonies were merely replacing one autocratic system of governance
with another. In the final passage of this chapter, Zinn writes:

When the Declaration of Independence was read, with all its flaming radical language,
from the town hall balcony in Boston, it was read by Thomas Crafts, a member of the Loyal Nine
group, conservatives who had opposed militant action against the British. Four days after the
reading, the Boston Committee of Correspondence ordered the townsmen to show up on the Common
for a military draft. The rich, it turned out, could avoid the draft by paying for
substitutes;...

In what ways is Creon a foil to Oedipus?

In order
to understand the nature of your question about 's , let us first look at
the definition of a foil: a "character that contrasts with another character, usually the ,
to emphasize the other character's traits" ( href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~daradib/chsntech/review/english/lit/review-terms.pdf">berkeley.edu).
In this case, , the foil, contrasts with , the protagonist, to emphasize the latter's character
traits. The most striking example of this is the way each character reacts to negative
accusations.

In the play, Oedipus is the King of Thebes. He is shown to be
reckless and bold with his actions and words. When news comes from the oracle about the cause
and potential cure of the Theban plague, Creon asks if he would like to hear the news in
private. Oedipus, wanting to show his people that he is a prideful and valiant ruler, tells him
to "[s]peak forth to all." He publicly vows to find Laius's murderer in order to end
his people's suffering. At this point in the play, he seems honorable: he is quick to action
when his...

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In the sermon, Edwards speaks of an angry God. Yet in another of his writings, Edwards speaks of God as "majesty and meekness joined together." Where...

For ,
the concepts of a God that is angry and
one that is merciful need not be completely distinct.
Because God is
omnipotent, all powerful, every decision is in His hands. God can be angry at

humans because they are heedless sinners on the verge of sliding into temptation.
Whether or not
God is angry, he still holds humans in His hands. God, and
only God, has the power to pause that
slide or even, if He chooses to be
merciful, to stop it. Edwards lays out these ideas in the
first part, in
which he mention that mercy is arbitrary and operates in conjunction with
Gods
will.

[J]ustice calls aloud for an
infinite punishment of
their [humans] sins. Divine justice says of the tree
that brings forth such grapes of Sodom,
"Cut it down; why cumbreth it the
ground" (Luke 13:7). The sword of divine justice is
every moment brandished
over their heads, and 'tis nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and
God's
mere will, that holds it back.

It is in the
second
part that Edwards offers a fuller explanation of the role of divine
mercy. Speaking in second
person directly to the congregants or sinners, he
tells them what is in store for them. Because
the people are in an
unregenerate state, Gods wrath will be fierce and pitiless: there shall
be no
moderation or mercy, nor will God then at all stay his rough wind; he will have no
regard
to your welfare€¦. Citing Ezekiel 8:18 on Gods unsparing fury and his
deafness to their cries,
Edwards tells that God is ready to pity them. That
pity is part of his mercy which will only be
dispensed occasionally;
otherwise, they can expect only misery.

[T]his is a day of mercy; you may cry now with some encouragement of obtaining
mercy:
but when once the day of mercy is past, your most lamentable and
dolorous cries and shrieks will
be in vain; you will be wholly lost and
thrown away of God as to any regard to your welfare; God
will have no other
use to put you to but only to suffer misery€¦.

No matter how miserable they may feel only earth, they should remember that
damnation
will mean that even worse suffering will come and that it will be
felt through all eternity. The
day of mercy can come, but only when the
sinners embrace Christ. Edwards paints this as their
opportunity to enter the
door that Christ opens and on the other side to find His
love.

Y]ou have an extraordinary opportunity, a day

wherein Christ has flung the door of mercy wide open, and stands in the door calling and
crying
with a loud voice to poor sinners; a day wherein many are flocking to
him, and pressing into the
kingdom of God€¦.

Edwards warns those who have not been
born again to this day that
they are in an extremely dangerous state because they have
hardened their
hearts against God. This danger is of being passed over and left, never to

receive the remarkable and wonderful dispensation of God's mercy€¦ He urges them to wake
up
and realize that Gods fierce wrath will be unbearable.

Thus, he offers hope
to those who embrace
Christ.

What causes Giovanni to sigh in "Rappaccini's Daughter"?

Giovanni sighs in
the opening of the story from a mixture of emotions. He is a young man for the first time out
of his sphere, so he has never been away from home before, and he is homesick. He knows the
history, or the poem, of his country, and he knows something of the history of the family
whose ancient mansion he has taken lodgings in, and he has been reminiscing about what he knows.
He remembers that one of the ancestors of the family whose crest is above the door was shown as
being in one of the circles of Hell in Dantes Inferno. He also notes that
the family is long extinct. All of this melancholy nostalgia coupled with missing his home leads
to his heavy sigh.

What impression does Pollock give the reader of the Native characters as they are introduced in the play Walsh? Specifically, are these characters...

In 's play
Walsh, the question of stereotypical characters needs to be examined from a
social and historical perspective. Stereotype is defined as...

... a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with
special meaning and held in common by members of a group

Native Americans in American history are shown as noble warriors
or shifty and even often inebriated, broken
individuals.

In this play, we see the "Native characters" as any
human beings: they are shown to be proud and fearless warriors, people devoted to each otherin
particular, their familiesand even as undesirable characters: not stereotypical.

Often we learn about specific characters by studying others around them. James Walsh
sees the Indians as equals. He disregards a difference between himself and Indians: skin color
means nothing to him. Walsh sees Indians as people, not as "aliens" in his country.
When an Indian named Crow Eagle (and others) steal a metal washing tub from Mrs. Anderson,
Walsh...

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In reference to "The Fish" what are some of Elizabeth Bishop's detailed observations and deep meditations that yield powerful insights?

Firmly in the
ut pictura poesistradition--"as in painting, so in poetry"--'s
poem "Fish" depends upon a narrative that exists outside the poem/art as the images
connect to interpretation of nature and speak to the reader.

The speaker of
Bishop's poem interprets nature as art and receives its message that beauty can come from
destruction.  Using synedoche , Bishop accomplishes this as
the...