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The Theme of Seduction in "Madame Butterfly", 2002.
An exploration of the key relationship in "Madame Butterfly" with a focus on the theme of seduction.
1,324 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper focuses on the theme of seduction in the play ?Madame Butterfly?. The writer concentrates on the complicated relationship between Gallimard and Song. The author indicates that while it appears to be the story of a man being tricked by a woman, it later becomes known that Song is actually a man trying to save himself from the new Chinese communist government. The paper concludes by highlighting how the themes of seduction could be accentuated in a production of the play, through the set, lighting and music.
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"In the play the character Gallimard, is seduced by both Song and by his own idea of Song. The seduction of Gallimard is a seduction perpetrated by his own stereotyped ideal of what an Asian woman is and can be for a white man mainly, submissive and by his actual seduction by Song the actor. In the very beginning of the interaction between Gallimard and Song there is the hint of a deception. Song laughs at him when he tells her that she made a convincing butterfly. ?Convincing as a Japanese Women?? she says. (Hwang, 1988 17) Yet, Gallimard must have given her some real indication that he believed that she was a woman, or she was just desperate to win the favor of someone who could give her the information that she needed to save herself".
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Madame Butterfly, 2001.
Sight and blindness, reality and constructions in Hwang's "M. Butterfly".
2,255 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, $ 69.95
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The paper discusses figures of sight and blindness used in the play "M Butterfly" examining Gallimard and Song's relationship in the greatest detail. A look at the Western depiction of Eastern women.
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"David Henry Hwang uses figures of seeing and not-seeing to depict the relationship between the East and the West in his play M. Butterfly, an inversion of Puccini?s opera Madame Butterfly. Gallimard can turn a blind eye to the fact that Song is a man in disguise because of his deeply-ingrained, stereotypically Western fantasy of Eastern women as submissive, fragile ?Madame Butterflies.? Gallimard is so enamored of the Madame Butterfly fantasy that he cannot see past it, and he is blinded to the obvious fact that his ?Butterfly? is a far cry from the original."
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M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, 1999.
Play's characters, plot and themes, focusing on the influence of Puccini's opera [Madame Butterfly].
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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" In the play M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, the action derives from a true story about a French diplomat who had a long-term affair with a Chinese singer, presumably thinking this was a woman when in fact it was a man. The story was also a spy story as the "woman" acquires secrets from her diplomat-lover for her government. The title of the play intentionally evokes images both of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly and what in French would be seen as "Monsieur" Butterfly. The opera embodies a certain Western attitude toward Asian women and toward Asians in general, and Hwang's play uses those ideas as something against which to balance his own drama as he deconstructs certain ideas from the opera and creates a different sense of operatic reality. Within this operatic universe, Gallimard's complacent Western stereotyping of Asians.."
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The Beauty of the Monarch Butterfly, 2002.
This paper is a detailed essay about the Monarch Butterfly and the problems of preventing its extinction.
2,745 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 82.95
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This paper describes the Monarch Butterfly in great detail, such as why does it have the bright colors and what do they mean? It states that the life of a Monarch Butterfly is quite complicated. The Monarch Butterfly is watched closely to prevent it from being extinct.
Table of Contents
Butterflies are Invertebrates
The Monarch?Danaus Plexippus
The Life Cycle of a Monarch
Lincoln Brower and the Monarch Butterfly
Brad Darrach and the Monarch Butterfly
The Monarch Butterfly Will It Be an Endangered Species?
The El Rosario Monarch Reserve
More Monarch Butterflies Killed and Solutions
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"The butterfly comes from the Lepidoptera, which is a Greek word meaning that the wings are covered in scales. Butterflies have compound eyes on either side of the head. The eyes are and made up of thousands of lensed-eyes called ?ommatidia?. They are not able to see fine detail, but are able to detach if they have a predator."
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Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", 2007.
A review of "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert which highlights the emergence of feminism.
Celebrating Gustave Flaubert's Famous Work
Madame Bovary is one of the most important French novels of the 19th century. It is vastly regarded
1,802 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 57.95
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The paper discusses the title character of Emma Bovary in "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. Emma is a dreamer with an unrealistic empassioned view on the world. The paper notes that the discrepancy between the world of beauty and the high society Emma longs for, and the reality of her middle-class country life, are the driving plot force in this novel. Emma is an example of early feminism. Most of the women of the nineteenth century were taught to obey their husbands and mind their homes. The paper comments that Madame Bovary rebels against societal norms, becoming an adulteress and squandering her husbands wealth behind his back. The paper notes that although this doesn't show her moral values in the best light, it does show that, in addition to personifying romanticism, Emma Bovary is also a strong female character and could possibly be considered one of the first feminists in literature.
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"The ball comes to signify the life Emma feels she was cheated out of. Emma sees the beautiful refinery at the ball and believes she was supposed to be one of these fine women. This makes her resent Charles because she feels he is a "nobody" and that no one at the ball notices him. What Emma fails to realize is that she, too, is not important to the people at the ball. Emma is asked to dance with an important man at the ball, and she takes this banal event, and almost construes it into a love affair. She later saves a cigar box as a memento of the ball, and even names her daughter after the ball. After noticing the grayness of her own middle-class life in comparison to that of the garish lifestyle enjoyed by those at the ball, Emma begins to borrow money from Lehreux, the local merchant. Emma spends the money on gaudy and expensive furnishings for her home. This again shows her unrealistic attitude towards her own life and her inability to accept her place in the middle class. It also shows her strength and independence ad a female character, gaining Charles' power of attorney so that she can continue to spend his money. During this same time period, Emma begins her fist encounter with Leon. As they are both cliched romantics, they talk about love, life, and books. Unfortunately, Leon leaves soon after and Emma feels that she was cheated out of something. Soon after, a man named Rodolphe comes to town. He begins to "court" Emma, and because Emma is so idealistically romantic, she does not see that he is scamming her and simply wants to use her. Emma finally feels the passion and romance she has been longing for for so long. The irony is, of course, that it is a facade much like Emma's notions of romanticism. Emma's romantic ideals are also what destroys this relationship - as she pushes for Rodolphe to run away with her, Rodolphe ends his relationship with Emma. Emma is devastated and thinks about killing herself. "
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Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", 2007.
A review of "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert which highlights the emergence of feminism.
Celebrating Gustave Flaubert's Famous Work
Madame Bovary is one of the most important French novels of the 19th century. It is vastly regarded
1,802 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 57.95
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The paper discusses the title character of Emma Bovary in "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. Emma is a dreamer with an unrealistic empassioned view on the world. The paper notes that the discrepancy between the world of beauty and the high society Emma longs for, and the reality of her middle-class country life, are the driving plot force in this novel. Emma is an example of early feminism. Most of the women of the nineteenth century were taught to obey their husbands and mind their homes. The paper comments that Madame Bovary rebels against societal norms, becoming an adulteress and squandering her husbands wealth behind his back. The paper notes that although this doesn't show her moral values in the best light, it does show that, in addition to personifying romanticism, Emma Bovary is also a strong female character and could possibly be considered one of the first feminists in literature.
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"The ball comes to signify the life Emma feels she was cheated out of. Emma sees the beautiful refinery at the ball and believes she was supposed to be one of these fine women. This makes her resent Charles because she feels he is a "nobody" and that no one at the ball notices him. What Emma fails to realize is that she, too, is not important to the people at the ball. Emma is asked to dance with an important man at the ball, and she takes this banal event, and almost construes it into a love affair. She later saves a cigar box as a memento of the ball, and even names her daughter after the ball. After noticing the grayness of her own middle-class life in comparison to that of the garish lifestyle enjoyed by those at the ball, Emma begins to borrow money from Lehreux, the local merchant. Emma spends the money on gaudy and expensive furnishings for her home. This again shows her unrealistic attitude towards her own life and her inability to accept her place in the middle class. It also shows her strength and independence ad a female character, gaining Charles' power of attorney so that she can continue to spend his money. During this same time period, Emma begins her fist encounter with Leon. As they are both cliched romantics, they talk about love, life, and books. Unfortunately, Leon leaves soon after and Emma feels that she was cheated out of something. Soon after, a man named Rodolphe comes to town. He begins to "court" Emma, and because Emma is so idealistically romantic, she does not see that he is scamming her and simply wants to use her. Emma finally feels the passion and romance she has been longing for for so long. The irony is, of course, that it is a facade much like Emma's notions of romanticism. Emma's romantic ideals are also what destroys this relationship - as she pushes for Rodolphe to run away with her, Rodolphe ends his relationship with Emma. Emma is devastated and thinks about killing herself. "
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"Madame Bovary", 2003.
An account of Madame Bovary's in Flaubert's "Madame Bovary."
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper is an account of Emma Bovary's fate or destiny as a romantic as depicted in the novel by Flaubert, "Madame Bovary." It looks at how Emma as a victim of circumstances and also discusses her preconceptions and romantic escapism.
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"Emma Bovary is a victim of circumstance to the extent that her experience of the world is socially constructed. What has to be understood is that she cannot simply run away from home and make her way in the world alone .Men can do that in nineteenth-century..."
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The Metamorphosis of the Butterfly, 2006.
An overview of the four stages of a butterfly's metamorphosis.
1,609 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explains that there are four concrete stages of metamorphosis in the life of a butterfly, listing these stages as the egg stage, the caterpillar/larva stage, the pupa/chrysalis, and finally the butterfly stage in which the complete butterfly emerges. The paper describes the processes and changes that take place in each of these stages and points out how the final stage of the butterfly's metamorphosis has become the universal image for various transformations.
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"The lifecycle of the butterfly, namely metamorphosis, is a symbol of transformation. The process of Metamorphosis has four stages; each stage can be used to symbolize the life process on a diacritical level. The essence of this change of form can clearly be seen when one observes an ungainly, crawling caterpillar morph into a delicate, brightly colored flying butterfly. It is crucial to note that not only is this process beautiful, it is complex as well. Metamorphosis is controlled by a blend of genetic messages and hormones residing inside the organism, though it can also be influenced by environmental factors such as diet and temperature (Metamorphosis, 2). Additionally, Metamorphosis is defined as a marked and more or less abrupt developmental change in the form or structure of an animal occurring subsequent to birth or hatching."
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"M. Butterfly", 2007.
A discussion on the exotic, feminine Orient in the Western imagination, as depicted in David Henry Hwang's drama "M. Butterfly".
1,228 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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The paper discusses how "M. Butterfly" is a play about the power of stereotypes to do harm, both to the person and the culture they are inflicted against, and also against the people who hold such stereotypes. The paper describes how, at the end of the play, Gallimard is destroyed because he realizes his life was based upon a lie, just as China was harmed by the lies and exploitation of Western colonialism. The paper examines how the conflict of gender, national, and identity issues are dramatically depicted in David Hwang's "M. Butterfly," when the French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with a feminine image of the East, in the persona of the actress Song Liling.
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"Gallimard has a psychological as well as a national and gender based need to see Song as feminine. Thus, the gender disguises of the play do not merely invert stereotypes of male and female, Asian and West. They also destroy the security of Gallimard's own identity as a strong, male Westerner with power. Song Liling is not only a man. Song uses Gallimard's own cultural stereotypes to exploit the Frenchman. Gallimard begins the play thinking he is the Western, White man taking advantage of the virginal 'Oriental' maiden. But like the opera's "Madam Butterfly," Gallimard ends the play abandoned, disgraced, cut off from his countrymen and finally suicidal. Thus Gallimard's own secure identity as a powerful man has been so undercut, he cannot live with himself, because he no longer knows who he is as a person."
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"The Awakening" and "Madame Bovary", 2005.
A comparison of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".
3,854 words (approx. 15.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 105.95
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This essay shows that Madame Bovary?s entire experience is by way of approaching her own obscurity and, indeed, her own demise and her death as an individual. It discusses how the depiction of Madame Emma Bovary?s adulterous behavior, beyond the racy fascination readers dipped into as Emma?s desire for ?self-obliteration? was carried out, was totally unacceptable for the 19th century, and along with her other foibles, indicates a serious dance with transgressions. It then looks at how Edna, the main character from "The Awakening", certainly transforms the image of the stereotypical female of the 19th century from a modest, obedient wife and mother into a woman having an affair and breaking all the rules.
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"Before examining further Edna?s breaking away from Darwin?s ideas, it is worthy to point out that Darwin saw civilization as evolving largely because ?a woman?s modesty curbs the male?s eagerness to couple,? Bender continues (488). But Bender also quotes Ruth Bernard Yeazell as saying, as a critique of Darwin, that ??females are at once less lustful and more discriminating than males? [and] the satisfying conclusion to Darwin?s story preserves the ideals of motherhood and the modest woman who knows nothing of appetite or sexual desire.?
Are we talking about women with no appetite for sexual desire? Not in Chopin?s characters. She clearly follows a pattern of both accepting and rejecting Darwin, which Bender only scratches the surface with. Chopin is likely embracing Darwin through the many images of the sea that connect Edna with evolution, if you will. ?Edna is a post-Darwinian woman-animal who had evolved from the sea in a world without gods,? Bender explains."
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"Madame Bovary", 2007.
This paper examines Gustave Flaubert's novel, "Madame Bovary".
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In this book review, the writer explores the literary innovations used by Gustave Flaubert in his novel, "Madame Bovary". Contrary to the popular Romanticism of the time, Flaubert used realism in describing Emma Bovary's life. According to the writer, Flaubert used his novel to deconstruct romanticism by playing off of Madame Bovary's fantasies against the reality of her life.
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"Emma Bovary is a woman who fantasizes about a life that is meant for the rich and famous. She purchases magazines so she can read of the latest fashions. She educates herself and takes music lessons. She even sends her own child to a wet nurse because that is what all the rich mothers in Paris do. She constantly lives beyond her means in order to escape the emptiness of her simple life. Emma lives through her fantasy novels. This is why the ball that she attended was such an important event to her. She could see the noble characters of her fantasies participating in such a regal event. As Emma said, "the memory of the ball would not leave her" though her memory of it would grow weak; "the yearning still remained (1121)". Emma was back in her simple existence, the place she longed to escape from."
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Madame Bovary as Film and Novel, 2008.
This paper discusses 'Madame Bovary' as a novel by Gustave Flaubert and as a film by director Vincent Minelli.
1,260 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that in trying to bring 'Madame Bovary' to the screen, director Vincent Minelli had the problem that much of the story depended on Gustave Flaubert's brilliant narrative. In a novel, Flaubert's crafted sentences had held readers' attention for decades, but a translation into film seemed an insurmountable obstacle. The writer notes that Minelli found a device, by which he could have a narrator, a character playing Flaubert, introduce the movie, and at various time move the plot along. To do this, Minelli opens not with the novel itself, but with the trial of Gustave Flaubert on charges of presenting a morally degenerate woman as his heroine, thereby threatening to corrupt the morals of all of France. The writer maintains that as a novel, Madame Bovary remains a standard of the literary canon, one of the premier examples of realistic fiction, and effectively a benchmark against which much of modern realistic fiction is judged. The writer concludes that the movie is regarded as creditable, however it is not considered one of the great cinematic classics. A modern viewer sees the artificiality and yearns for more realistic movement in this movie version of a realistic novel.
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" Trying to defend the movie, Flaubert paints a reasonable picture of the farm to which Charles Flaubert, a young doctor, has come one rainy night to attend to the broken leg of Emma Roualt. After he has set the patient's leg, he and Emma meet, and they are smitten with one another, he because she is a beautiful young woman, and he because she imbues him with a host of romantic ideals that he simply does not have. By his own confession, he is a rather simple, hard-working country doctor, but she declares him to be the most handsome and dashing man in the world."
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'Madame Bovary', 2006.
A review of Gustave Flaubert's novel, "Madame Bovary".
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the book 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert. The paper reports that this novel so scandalized the moral fiber of public prosecutors of the time, that a court suit was brought against it. According to the paper, while the book narrates intense desire and pursuit for wealth, romance and social status, it also exposes the unstable and unsettling place of women in society during time period of the book, which ultimately puts an end to Madam Bovary's intense pursuit and wild indiscretions.
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"Her third opportunity is Rodolphe Boulanger, a wealthy landowner to whom Emma is only one in a string of mistresses. He is calculating, selfish and manipulative. He designs the seduction of Emma with strategic precision, runs an affair with her and leaves her when he gets bored of her romantic fancies and emotional demands. He represents the fulfillment of the rest of her intense dreams of wealth and class. She has the body and sensual means for it for a while, but her misplaced romantic ideals and demands do not fit the designs of Rodolphe, especially when she becomes indiscreet. Her beauty and the risks and excitement of adultery make her desirable to Rodolphe to feed his ego, but not her desires and personal requirements. Like Leon, Rodolphe has the options, which Emma does not have in a society, which puts women at a disadvantage and at the pleasure of men."
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Madame Lubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya, 2008.
An analysis of the influence of the characteristics of the protagonist, Madame Lubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya, in Anton Chekhov's play, "The Cherry Orchard."
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This paper discusses the characteristics of Madame Lubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya, who is a protagonist of Anton Chekhov's last play, "The Cherry Orchard," written in 1903. The paper disusses the character's role in the plot of the play. It shows how Madam Ranevskaya's coping skills play a large part in the structure of her character, as well as the overall structure of the play.
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"Anton Chekhov created Mme. Ranevskaya's character for a very specific reason: to symbolize old aristocrat society being unable to cope with the modern times and to display how the new order of things, people of serf families (in this play Lopahin) coming into power, was inevitable and took the power away from the old aristocrats. When The Cherry Orchard was written, Chekhov wanted one major theme to be the inevitability of change. The way that he chose to show this, was by using Russian history as his bases. Old aristocratic Russian society was taken over by previous serfs, who had a whole new way of doing thing. In this play, Mme. Ranevskaya represents Old Russian aristocrats, the orchard itself symbolizes Old Russia, and Lopahin plays the part of the new order of things."
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"Madame Bovary" and "The Scarlet Letter", 2007.
A comparative analysis of the main themes of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter".
2,019 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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The two novels "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert and "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, are categorized as two of the greatest works of arts in modern literature. This paper examines how, despite the differences in nationalities and cultural backgrounds of the two authors, their versatility and skillfulness have definitely led their novels into a strong success. The paper further compares the main themes and symbolism in the books as well as their different styles, their cultural back grounds and the presence of religion in both novels.
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"Irony is one of the main characteristics in both novels .In "Madame Bovary", however, irony is more evident due to Flaubert's strong refusal of his society much more than Hawthorne does. In chapter four , after the wedding Flaubert describes the newly weds : "it was he who gave the impression of having lost his virginity overnight :the bride made not the slightest sigh that could be taken to betray anything at all " In chapter nine ,When Rodolphe offers to escort Emma for a horse ride ,the unsuspected Charles tells him that his wife is at "...his disposal" and thus Flaubert here is stressing on the Bourgeoisie ' lack of intelligence . .Irony is found in "The Scarlet Letter'' as well ,as in chapter three , where Dimmesdale urges Hester to say the name of her lover ,ironically enough ,Dimmesdale himself is this lover : "I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow sufferer !" . Another ironic gesture is shown when Hester's husband shouts at her among the crowd; "speak woman, speak and give your child a father!" implying that he is the one who should have been the baby's father. Moreover, Chillingworth, who dedicated himself to revenge from DImmesdale and Hester, fails at the end and dies leaving his money to his unfaithful wife and her daughter."
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