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Evil And The Second Sense
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In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel
Hawthorn the society of a Puritan town of Salem
excludes anyone who is in any way deviant and
renders that person sinful. However, the society,
the townspeople themselves, is not without fault.
However they try to conceal and contain their
passions and all their faults because of their
fear of exclusion. All the characters in the book
that are excluded from society are the most
"natural" and true and possess a second-sense
perception and almost magica...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Hester And Pearl
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In Hawthorne's classic, The Scarlet Letter,
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is a self-confessed
coward and hypocrite. He is fully aware of the
means by which he must liberate his soul from the
confines of his grave sin, and make his concord
with God. Yet, throughout the story his confession
remains an impediment, constraining him, from then
onwards, to a life of atonement. Reverend
Dimmesdale's guilt complex causes him to cultivate
a crop of internal conflicts. He attempts to
divest himself of his pe...
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Important Literary Elements Of The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's revolutionary novel, The
Scarlet Letter, was written in the time where
there were no exceptions; either one was holy and
added the law, or one was a sinner, condemned by
all. In that time, life was centered around an
impermeable Puritan society, in which secrets and
innermost thoughts were to be kept inside the
self. Hester Prynne, the protagonist of the story,
tries to cope with the guilt that the town puts
her through because of her sin. The other main
characters of the s...
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Reverend Dimmesdale Hester Prynne
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The character this paper is analyzing is reverend
Dimmesdale, because through out the story reverend
Dimmesdale made some dramatic changes in his life.
In the beginning of the story, Reverend Dimmesdale
was a quiet but great man, adored by others and
worshiped by many. Toward the middle and the end
of the story Reverend Dimmesdale changed as each
chapter went on. Reverend Dimmesdale was killing
slowly by keeping something within him that make
him feel guilt and anguish each and everyday. By
Reve...
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Essay Scarlet Letter 8 17 00 Essay Scarlet Evil
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8 / 17 / 00 Essay-Scarlet Letter Frank Lee 8 / 17
/ 00 Essay- Scarlet Letter In modern times battles
are fought everyday, but in the end, it is only
the outcome of the wars that count. Sometimes the
good guys win and sometimes the bad guys win, but
in literature, it is different. In literature,
Evil wins the battles, but Good wins the wars.
says Henry Gaedon. This is particularly evident in
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter where
Good is portrayed by Hester Prynne and Evil by
Roger Chilli...
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Effects Of Sin Members Of The Community
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Effects of Sin in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter The
Scarlet Letter was Nathaniel Hawthorne's greatest
literary masterpiece. Because of his Puritan
heritage, he is able to tell the story of the
effects of an adulterous affair on a small Puritan
community like no one else could. Hawthorne
clearly used this story to teach several moral
lessons. Throughout this book he spends much of
his time concentrating on how sin affects the life
of his characters. Each of his characters lives
are shaped by how the...
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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
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Hester Prynne's Development Hester Prynne, through
the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner;
she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing
adultery. In the town of Boston where the story
takes place, this sin is among the worst for the
Puritan community. For this irrevocably harsh sin,
she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of
her life. But this trial in Hester's life forces
her to mature. The character of Hester Prynne
changed significantly throughout the novel. From
the beginni...
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People Of Boston Scarlet Letter
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Hester's Individualism As Present In Hawthorne's
The Hesters Individualism As Present In
Hawthorne's The Scarlet In Hawthorne's revered
novel The Scarlet Letter, the use of Romanticism
plays an important role in the development of his
characters. He effectively demonstrates
individualism in Hester to further our
understanding of the difficulties of living in
Boston, the stern, joyless world of Puritan New
England. It is all gloom and doom. If the sun ever
shines, one could hardly notice. The ent...
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Relationship With God Hester
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Alienation Among Many Through out Nathaniel
Hawthorne? s The Scarlet Letter, the main
characters suffer psychological damage as a result
of different forms of alienation. The character
traits they posses make them more susceptible to
certain types of alienation. Since Dimmesdale
cannot reveal his secret to anyone, he can not
share his pain. All the pent up guilt he has
stored with in eats away at him, slowly
deteriorating his body and soul. Dimmesdale? s
masochistic and pious attributes greatly ...
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Scarlet Letter Puritan Society
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Among many morals which press upon us from the
poor minister s miserable experience, we put only
this into a sentence: Be true! Be true! Be true!
Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet
some trait whereby the worst may be inferred! (Ch.
24: 236) Hawthorne expresses the purpose of
writing this novel in that short sentence. He
creates characters who have sin and disguise these
sins for their own salvation. Slowly these sins
evolve the characters, it strengthens Hester,
humanizes Dimmesdal...
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Hester And Pearl Hester Prynne
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Setting 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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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
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Most people believe that there exists at least one
person in the world who matches their personality
exactly. Others believe that for every person
there is an exact opposite or an evil twin so to
speak. In the case of Hester Prynne and Arthur
Dimmesdale, they fall somewhere in between these
two definitions. Both were sinners, and yet the
people glorified Dimmesdale and cast Hester away,
only because they were misinformed. Hester Prynne
and Arthur Dimmesdale are, at first glance totally
different...
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Town Of Salem Mistress Hibbins
1,488 words
In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel
Hawthorn the society of a Puritan town of Salem
excludes anyone who is in any way deviant and
renders that person sinful. However, the society,
the townspeople themselves, is not without fault.
However they try to conceal and contain their
passions and all their faults because of their
fear of exclusion. All the characters in the book
that are excluded from society are the most
natural and true and possess a second-sense
perception and almost magical ...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Puritans, or the pure ones, were English
Protestants in the 16 th century who enforced
strict laws, principles, discipline, and religion.
They strongly believed in leading simple,
ordinary, religious lives. Therefore, a
Puritanistic society would not tolerate any
complex matters of self- expression or allow any
violations of laws that would upset their pure way
of living. In the novel The Scarlet Letter,
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses nature as a shelter from
the strict mandates of the Puritan lifesty...
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Hester Prynne Committed Adultery
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The virtue of truth and the evil of secret sin are
clearly illustrated in the novel, The Scarlet
Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The three
main characters in this novel display their own
honesty and sins. Hester Prynne exhibits the
essence of truth and pride when she bravely faces
the humiliation of the scaffold. In chapter 17,
when Hester apologizes to Dimmesdale about
concealing Chillingworth? s identity, she says, ?
In all things else, I have striven to be true!
Truth was the one virt...
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Hester Prynne Dimmesdale
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The Letter and Human Frailty Nathaniel Hawthorne,
the author of The Scarlet Letter, tells a tale of
human frailty and sorrow through each and every
character. When you first meet Hester Prynne, the
main character, she seems quite innocent. Only
guilty of not naming her lover. Yet she is treated
like an evil demon by the Puritan community of the
1700? s because she broke the seventh commandment
The way they yelled? at the very least, they
should have put the brand of hot iron on Hester
Prynne. ? ...
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Arthur Dimmesdale Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A great deal of blood has been shed and many wars
have been fought during the history of
civilization; however, mans greatest battle and
most formidable enemy is only himself. Humans like
to think of themselves as faultless, but sin is
inevitable. Mankind is a sinful race; therefore,
everyone has sinned. This has been made only more
evident with the passing of time and the
development of the human character. Not every
person has the ability to address the concept of
sin and also display it in a ...
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Dimmesdale And Chillingworth Hester Prynne
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Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne, born in Salem,
Massachusetts, 1804, published The Scarlet Letter
in 1850. Since it was first published, The Scarlet
Letter has never been out of print, nor out of
favor with the literary critics. It is inevitably
included in listings of the five or ten greatest
American novels. Considered to be the best of
Nathaniel Hawthorne s writings, it may also be the
most typical. The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne s
masterpiece and his most profound exploration of
sin, ali...
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Hester Prynne Scarlet Letter
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The fate of all characters in The Scarlet Letter
was determined by Hawthorne s revealing statement
in the middle of the novel. This impenetrable
truth dictates the behavior of the characters in
the entire story. The public and the hierarchy of
the society demanded punishments for all involved
of such severity that even years after the crime
its potential still resonated throughout the town,
effecting the plot through its ending. Hawthorne s
placement of this quote is typical of his clever
artifi...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Sin Of Adultery
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Have you ever did something wrong but felt that it
was right? After thinking about the situation, did
you feel like it was the worst sin you ever
committed? Did you confess at the time you
realized it was wrong or did you confess because
you had no other choice? In Nathaniel Hawthorne s
The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, the wife to
master Prynne, commits adultery with Reverend
Dimmesdale. Hester does not announce that
Dimmesdale is the man she sins with. In the act of
committing the sin, they h...
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