What Makes Up A Work Of Literature

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daughter. But he wants to torment and
take revenge on the Reverend Dimmesdale, who suddenly became sick.
Chillingworth uses his knowledge of the human mind and of medicine to
deduce that Dimmesdale's sickness lay not in his body, but in his mind: He
was holding a secret, a deep, dark, secret, that was destroying him. By
asking Dimmesdale if he were hiding something, Chillingworth angered
Dimmesdale and tried to torment him. This insight into human behavior,
that one's physical attributes can be determined by a mental condition,
makes The Scarlet Letter a classic.

Ken Kesey gives an excellent insight into human behavior in One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in a similar way to that in The Scarlet Letter.
Through Chief Bromden, a patient at the mental ward, Kesey shows how one
sees him/herself in relatio n to others and how the way that he/she sees
him/herself can affect his/her physical abilities. The Chief had thought
that he was "small," despite the fact that he was ...

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