I. Summary II. Nathaniel Hawthorne & the puritan society - Author - The Puritans (more)

I. Summary II. Nathaniel Hawthorne & the puritan society - Author - The Puritans INDEX (less)

Hester Prynne arrives to a puritan settlement. She is waiting for her husband to come too. She (more)

Hester Prynne arrives to a puritan settlement. She is waiting for her husband to come too. She has a love affair with a young man. She gets pregnant. She is imprisoned. Summary (less)

She has to wear a scarlet letter. Her husband arrives to Boston. He wants to discover his (more)

She has to wear a scarlet letter. Her husband arrives to Boston. He wants to discover his wife’s lover. He makes Dimmesdale suffer. (less)

AUTHOR Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem. He was a puritan. Hawthorne took a dark view of (more)

AUTHOR Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem. He was a puritan. Hawthorne took a dark view of human nature. He was descendent of Colonel John Hathorne, one of the judges in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.  (less)

PURITANS Henry VIII split with the Church . They didn’t want to destroy nor separate from the (more)

PURITANS Henry VIII split with the Church . They didn’t want to destroy nor separate from the England Church. Mayflower sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Features: Original sin, all are sinners and condemn them. Strict, inhumanity, hypocrisy… (less)

Contents Previous situation (before the atomic bombings) Why did Japan become the main (more)

Contents Previous situation (before the atomic bombings) Why did Japan become the main target? August 1945 Two sides of the same coin Moral debate 70 years later (less)

Effects: A million-degree heat. 70,000 people were instantly killed 70,000 more died in the (more)

Effects: A million-degree heat. 70,000 people were instantly killed 70,000 more died in the following months. The majority of them were civilians. Hiroshima disappeared in its 69% in a burst of light. (less)

Effects: 35,000 people were instantly killed. 60,000 more were injured. The majority of them (more)

Effects: 35,000 people were instantly killed. 60,000 more were injured. The majority of them were civilians again. Nagasaki disappeared in its 44% in just a second. The bombardier plane was later called Necessary Evil. (less)

Consequences: American population The war was finally over. Americans demonstrated their military (more)

Consequences: American population The war was finally over. Americans demonstrated their military forces. People were glad because they finally got peace. They saved lots of American soldiers’ lives. (less)

Consequences: Japanese population Surivivors were called Hibakusha. They were more than 200,000 (more)

Consequences: Japanese population Surivivors were called Hibakusha. They were more than 200,000 people. They were burnt or irradiated by nuclear energy. They were socially discriminated. (less)

Nuclear sickness Severe buns. Alopecia. Cancer, mainly leukemia. Accelerated ageing. Physical (more)

Nuclear sickness Severe buns. Alopecia. Cancer, mainly leukemia. Accelerated ageing. Physical mutations of their offspring. Death. (less)

Moral debate For: Manhattan Project allowed us to know more about nuclear power. We can use it for (more)

Moral debate For: Manhattan Project allowed us to know more about nuclear power. We can use it for everyday life. Hibakusha let us see how nuclear energy works in human bodies. Both bombings were necessary to progress. Against: Bombs released in civil areas. Both cities were seriously damaged; they needed to be reconstructed. Japan was going to surrender after the first one. Hibakusha still exist nowadays. (less)

You gave me Hycinths, Jeanette Turner Hospital Culture and society of English speaking countries (more)

You gave me Hycinths, Jeanette Turner Hospital Culture and society of English speaking countries Laura Huguet Solé (less)

Main topic Relationship between the teacher and the student. Relationship changes throughout the (more)

Main topic Relationship between the teacher and the student. Relationship changes throughout the story. Event near the sea Symbolism of the story (less)