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The Scarlet Letter Scaffold
1,289 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, centers its plot, setting, and characters around the unifying scaffold. With each encounter at the scaffold, the four main characters, Hester, Pearl, Rev. Dimmesdale, and Mr. Chillingworth, become more emotionally connected to one another. Each of the three meetings symbolizes a major turning point in the novel where a sin is confessed and / or developed. All four main characters interact together only at the scaffold. During the first scaffold scene, He...
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Scarlet Letter Constant Reminder
711 wordsIn The Scarlet Letter, a book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the character named I think Pearl is a huge symbol in this story. She is a constant reminder to Hester that she has sinned, as is the scarlet letter on her chest. Pearl and the scarlet letter have some things in common too. Both are very eloquently designed. The scarlet letter is made of luxurious cloth and painstakingly detailed. Pearl is a beautiful young child who seems to even "glow" at times. She is also very intelligent. I think...
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The Scarlet Letter And Bean Trees
999 wordsThe Scarlet Letter and The Bean Trees In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, both authors cast their protagonist as a single, unwed mother. Though the time and setting that they are put into are very different and greatly effects the way the character is portrayed, there are many similarities between the two main characters. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, the main character, is scorned and ridiculed because of her secret and unjustified affa...
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Integrity In Both The Scarlet Letter And Crucible
607 wordsIntegrity, a firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. Merriam Webster dictionary. A character with integrity is willing to sacrifice anything of substantial value, even their life or reputation, to uphold the moral code they live by. It takes someone of strong character to possess integrity, for the temptation to give in is every so often astronomically appealing. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is a character of true integrity who upholds her ...
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Consequences Of Human Desire In The Scarlet Letter
684 wordsIn The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters suffer from the tolls of sin, but none as horribly as Hester's daughter, Pearl. Throughout the novel, Pearl is a symbol of the sin that her mother has committed, and also suffers from this sin. Pearl is portrayed as an offspring of vice, and is even characterized as demonic by her mother. The austere Puritan society isolates Pearl, causing animosity between her and the other Puritan children. Pearl is conceived in sin, is a con...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Sin Of Adultery
943 wordsThe Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an exceptional novel based on sin, forgiveness, and deception. Hester, the main character, has committed the sin of adultery to an unknown man. She lives in Boston and is a puritan, which does not accept sin and lives by the strict, Puritan code. Hester's sin is unveiled when she bears a child by the name of Pearl and has no husband at that time. Hester punishment is not death because her husband is gone, and temptation over ran her heart. T...
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Good And Evil Moby Dick
618 wordsBut the point which drew all eyes was that Scarlet Letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. (Hawthorne, 2000, 12) The author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville, goes to great lengths to show that the color white is everything, including the greatest Evil embodied in Moby Dick. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, emphasizes how Hester is the outcast from society and forced to live on the fringes, on the boundary between the town and the woods the border o...
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Discussing Similarities In Four Works By Hawthorne
1,436 words... ere to give her such sway over all hearts (The Birthmark 11). It is the predominant characteristic of her face and is heightened when the lady blushes. Besides the mark, her face is filled with beauty. Aylmer becomes fixated with the mark and stares at it until Georgiana learns to shutter at his glance. One night Georgiana confronts her husband about a dream he had about the mark. In the dream Aylmer works with his assistant to remove the stain from her cheek, but the more he attempts to cut...
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Form Of Revenge Roger Chillingworth Movie
1,014 wordsSin or Saint The Scarlet Letter is a highly sexual movie remake of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel. Starring Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, Gary Oldman as Arthur Dimmesdale and Robert Duvall as Roger Chillingworth. The movie is in a league of its own and thats not really a compliment. Literary purists should be aghast at some of the liberties taken with the original text, but the complaints have more to do with cinematic misjudgments and drastic change in plot than those in the book-to-screen ...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Thoughts And Feelings
990 wordsThe Secret World In The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid Puritan society, where one is unable to express his or her innermost thoughts and feelings. Everyone needs the opportunity to express how they truly feel; otherwise the emotions stay bottled up until they become explosive. Puritan society however did not permit this kind of expression. People had to seek alternative means of relieving their personal anguish and distress. In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne provides a refuge, in...
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Hand Over His Heart Hester Husband
669 wordsI find Arthur Dimmesdale to be the most interesting character in The Scarlet Letter. He is a priest, he is a holy figure, yet he is hiding a sin from everyone, and it is eating him up inside. He also preaches about how it is bad. Hester's husband, Chillingworth is also hurting him by always being there and trying to pick into Mr. Dimmesdale heart and find out the secret, which he already knows. He is just doing it as revenge to Mr. Dimmesdale and Hester. Pearl keeps on mentioning that Dimmesdale...
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Ethan Frome Arthur Dimmesdale
2,014 wordsArthur Dimmesdale of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Ethan Frome, the main character of Wharton's classic Ethan Frome, though separated by over a century of time, find themselves in remarkably similar situations bleak existence, punctuated only be intermittent glimpses into a life that might have been. However, a difference in character leads each to ultimately confront their respective situation in opposing ways. Ironically, the one seeking a new, clean life is met by death and the one seeking a...
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Scarlet Letter Single Mother
464 wordsThroughout The Scarlet Letter, the main character, Hester Prynne, is portrayed as a feminist woman. Unlike many Puritan women, Hester creates her own lifestyle and way of living without the help of a male husband. Hawthorne uses Hester's business success, assertiveness toward well respected men, and skills as a single mother to emphasize the feminist aspects of The Scarlet Letter. Though the community rejects her, Hester is able to establish a thriving business as a seamstress. Since Hester's pr...
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Hester Prynne Scarlet Letter
824 wordsFeminism in The Scarlet Letter Throughout The Scarlet Letter, the main character, Hester Prynne, is portrayed as a feminist woman. Unlike many Puritan women, Hester creates her own lifestyle and way of living without the help of a male husband. Hawthorne uses Hester's business success, assertiveness toward well respected men, and skills as a single mother to emphasize the feminist aspects of The Scarlet Letter. Though the community rejects her, Hester is able to establish a thriving business as ...
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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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Committing Adultery Hester Lover
787 wordsNote: this is based on a MODERN point of view GUILTY AS CHARGED Chillingworth, Hester and Dimmsdale, three of the main characters in Hawthorne's novel A Scarlet Letter are all guilty; guilty of different things, yet guilty never the less. In addition, society too, is guilty. Chillingworth is guilty for hurting Dimmsdale and manipulating Hester. Hester is guilty of adultery and for going along with Chillingworth's marriage proposal, while Dimmsdale is guilty of adultery and for leaving Hester and...
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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
1,710 wordsNo one is perfect and no one is exactly the same. Everyone sins, and that includes telling lies. Most everyone lies at some point, whether it be to cover something up or just make someone feel better. Or it can be both. We as people are very afraid of being judged in a bad way, so if a person does something sinful or shunned upon, they lie about it to keep their reputations protected. This opinion based on another's life decisions is a hypocritical decision. We dont want it happening to us, howe...
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Rest Of Society Teenage Parents
635 wordsWhat each generation or society views as good and bad seems to change with the times. Even the way people carry out their daily tasks is different from the past. Thats what the advancement of mankind is all about. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne shows a perfect example of how the past can never really be the same as the present. Because the times have changed, The Scarlet Letter is not relevant to todays teenage parents. One way the times have changed is that teenage parents are not a...
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Duke And Dauphin Hester And Dimmesdale
1,446 wordsFinal Prep: Hawthorne, Miller, Clemens, Crane The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne takes place in the seventeenth century, New England colony of Massachusetts. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the novel. She is an English woman and the wife of Roger Chillingworth. She is tried and condemned for her sin of adultery with Dimmesdale and charged to wear the scarlet letter, A, an indication of adultery, on the bosom of her gown forever. Even though she has a daughter out of wedlock, she refu...
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Character In The Story Hester Prynne
946 wordsThe Scarlet Letter: Symbolic characters Symbolic characters are very important in most powerful novels. One classic that uses characters as symbols is The Scarlet Letter. This novel is about a woman in Puritan society, Hester, who commits adultery with her minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. She has a daughter, Pearl, and is forced to wear a scarlet letter the rest of her life. Dimmesdale hides his sin and becomes extremely troubled. Hester's husband, Chillingsworth, takes it upon himself to judge and ...
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