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Hester And Pearl Put To Death
1,499 wordsIf a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, did it make a sound? This saying brings me to my thesis of "Guilt Without Confession leads to Great Consequences in The Scarlet Letter." If a character does something wrong but no one knows, that character can both gain and lose from what they have done. This happens multiple times in The Start Letter. Characters commit evil deeds, some are caught, some are not. For those that aren't caught, they have a decision to make. To turn themse...
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Roger Chillingworth Arthur Dimmesdale
412 wordsThe three main characters of The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale, were all morally corrupt. They all showed incredible proof of this through out the novel. The very beginning of this novel starts with Hester in a jail cell. The only reason she was in this cell is because she was an adulterer. While her husband was on his was from England, she found time to woo a mate, establish a bad reputation, and have a bastard child. The fact that she produced a chil...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Roger Chillingworth
966 wordsSin is something society has had to deal with since mankind has known evil. In most circumstances, the sin only becomes a problem when it is kept within and manifests into something larger than it was in the first place. Keeping secrets is a detriment to ones life, which in a larger picture affects a whole society. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, secret sin is a predominant theme, which in this novel leads to changes in both emotional and physical being. In the early days of the M...
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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
527 wordsThe Worst Sinner The story begins with an unfortunate marriage between Hester Prynne and Roger Chilingworth, which leads to adultery and revenge. As the story unfolds we learn that Hester commits adultery which was a sin punished very badly. Later on we are introduced to Roger Chilingworth, who is only known as a physician, not Hester's husband; he sins by hurting Hester and our next character Arthur Dimmesdale. The reverend Dimmesdale is known later on to be the father of the baby. His sin is a...
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The Scarlet Letter Analysis Of Pearl Prynne
941 wordsPearl Prynne. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he created a symbol of great magnitude. A character that changed the story for good and for worse, her name was Pearl Prynne. Pearl is not meant to be a realistic character. Rather, she is a complicated symbol of an act of love and passion adultery. Pearl is the living version of the scarlet letter. It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life. (98) When Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale committed a...
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The Effects Of Sin Upon Arthur Dimmesdale
769 wordsThe most observable reason for his eventual breakdown is the fact that he keeps his sin a secret. Arthur Dimmesdale's sin was the same as Hester's, except he never confessed. "As God's servant, it is his nature to tell the truth, so the years of pretending and hypocrisy were especially hard on him. " (Bloom 28) Dimmesdale also believes that his sin has taken the meaning out of his life. His life's work has been dedicated to God, and now his sin has tainted it. He feels that he is a fraud and is ...
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Hester Prynne Committing Adultery
677 wordsMs. Scarlet Letter Jessica Holland Ms. Davis Adv. Eng. III Per. 6 10 April 2000 The Greatest Sin People waste their lives all the time by making bad decisions, focusing their lives on destroying others, and wallowing in self pity and regret. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows in his novel, The Scarlet Letter, that people go through their lives casting off their true potential. Through the characters Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale, Hawthorne shows that sin is not only evil becau...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Morally Wrong
763 wordsThe Morality Issue Through Hawthorne, the book The Scarlet Letter is written about love, sin, and most of all morals. Hawthorne creates many different perspectives on characters and their views. His vivid descriptions of the main trio of characters allow the reader to make there own decisions on who is morally right or wrong. Is Hester a victim, or a temptress, or maybe Dimmesdale is in the wrong for falling for the temptress. Chillingworth, who is at first thought to be the victim, but in the e...
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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
1,271 wordsAlthough Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter is primarily the story of an adulteress atoning for her sin and conquering the insignia which brings torment to her spirit, the quest of the partner in her sin, Arthur Dimmesdale, is no less important and even more painful. His quest, simply phrased, is to glorify God through his priesthood and expiate his sin of adultery to save his soul while protecting his reputation. To do so, he tries to continue day by day to do the work of the Lord which h...
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Moral Of The Story Scarlet Letter
930 wordsHypocrisy, often seen as one of the vilest manifestations of the human ego, is also one of the most inevitable and foreseeable. It is the simplest, and yet one of the most intricate aspects of being human. We all wish to judge and not be judged, for our own voice is always the strongest in our mind. Hypocrisy runs rampant in daily life; all one has to do is turn on the television set at our convenience to be forced to consider the meanings and implications of our own actions. Can we, in all seri...
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Economic And Social Hester Prynne
930 wordsIs The Scarlet Letter Relevant to Todays Teenage Parents? The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, is the story of Hester Prynne, a woman in colonial Puritan Massachusetts who is condemned to wear a scarlet letter A on her chest as punishment for an adulterous union which produced an illegitimate child. It is a novel of great psychological depth. However, it is not relevant to todays teenage parents. Hester and the average teenage parent of today have to face completely differ...
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Hester And Pearl Hester Prynne
1,438 wordsSetting is an important factor when it comes to telling any kind of story. Nathaniel Hawthorne s story is that of four main settings. The Governors Mansion, the prison, the platform, and the woods. He uses these places to further exaggerate the tale of the main characters, Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, and Roger Chillingworth. Each place has a different meaning and emotional significance to a character. The words in the book give imagery to the novel and give it a more textured feeling. This...
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