Franklin V Hawthorne
In the excerpts from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two authors utilize language to display their varying views on sins and imperfections of a person. Franklin’s own experience and the analogy of the speckled ax portrays his acceptance of sins and flaws as a part of life with the virtue of hard work as a balance; on the contrary, through his allegory of the flickering light within the forest and purity of Pearl to Hester’s sin, Hawthorne shows his reluctance to recognize anything below perfection. Franklin allows leeway in life and assumes the best qualities of everyone; as opposed to Hawthorn’s pessimistic opinion about helpless hypocritical audience with tainted characters. Through the virtue of hard work, Franklin views the best about his audience while receiving flaws as normality within one and perfection as unattainable. Franklin relates his experience of “difficulty” of “acquiring…order”, diction of “faulty character”, and the analogy of “the speckled ax” to prove his lighthearted outlook on petty mistakes with a foundation of hard work behind them. First, to convince the reader of tolerance of mistakes, Franklin relates his experi
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Approximate Word count = 964
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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