Click here to read the wages of sin literary analysis. (note: some paragraphs of the original essay have been removed, but all the information needed to
answer the questions is provided.) match each example from the essay with the part of the literary analysis that the example fulfills.
- commentary
a. still, wages of betrayal are more horrible - life.
- thesis
b. in "rappaccini's daughter, hawthorne exposes the effects of betrayal in
order to demonstrate that all in this world is untrustworthy and death is the
- lead-in
only certainty
c. (399)
- clincher
d. rappaccini is confronted with his treachery by beatrice in her dying
- hook
moments when she asks,
summary
e. this story goes beyond mere tragedy, however,
f. perhaps the deeper cause of the tragedy lies in fact that neither giovanni
concrete detail
nor rappaccini love or trust beatrice more than his beliefs.
- topic sentence
g. so giovanni, like rappaccini, is betrayed by faith in an idea.
h. she turns from the poison with which her father nourished and sustained
- parenthetical citation
her and accepts the antidote which giovanni, her lover offers her.
- transition
1. as she dies from the antidote, she charges giovanni with her death saying,
"farewell, giovanni. thy words of hatred are like lead within my oh,
was there from the first not more poison in thy nature than in mine? " (420).
j. trust is like a mirror, once it has been shattered, nothing ever looks quite
the same.