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Hawthorne Describes Scarlet Letter
2,304 words
There are two main themes that Hawthorne he uses
in the novel both are related. Through his diction
Hawthorne seems to emphasize the severity of
Puritan law as a theme, the other is the
strictness of Puritan society. In the opening
chapter he carefully describes the prison as an
ugly edifice and gloomy even though the prison is
old, it still has the power to enforce the severe
Puritan laws whatever they may be. He describes
the door of the prison as being. Heavily timbered
with oak and studded w...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Hester And Dimmesdale
1,791 words
Often in society people are placed under a
microscope and criticized, punished, and despised
for their individual choices and flaws. In
Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, life is
centered around a rigid Puritan society in which
one is unable to divulge his or her innermost
thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the
opportunity to express how he or she truly feels;
otherwise the emotions are bottled up until they
become so compacted they erupt. Unfortunately,
Puritan society does n...
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Hester And Pearl Hester Prynne
1,521 words
The story opens with Hester Prynne standing
silently on the scaffold in the middle of a town
square in 18 th century Boston. Hester, holding
her small child in her arms, is publicly on trial
for adultery. The town people, especially the
women, are not happy that Hester has been
sentenced only to wear a scarlet letter and to
stand on a public platform for a few hours of
public humiliation. However, the judge has decided
to be merciful to her because, over all, she has
been a good citizen up to th...
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Hester And Pearl Put To Death
1,499 words
If 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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Hester And Pearl Hester Prynne
2,519 words
... of Pearls position. When you visualize
something of that nature it is not a description
you are soon to forget and I believe that is what
makes Pearl unique. August 28, 2001 Chapter 7
Pages 103 - 110 1. Hester and Pearl go to the
house of the governor to deliver a pair of gloves
and speak with him on the issue of Hester's
keeping Pearl. On the way they cross the path of
some local children who begin to insult and fling
mud at them. Agitated, Pearl goes after them with
a scourge that frighten...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Hester And Pearl
1,301 words
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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Scarlet Letter Hester Person In The World
1,029 words
In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses
Pearl as a symbol of the scarlet letter "A. " He
also uses Pearl as a device to make Hester and
Reverend Dimmesdale accept their sin of Adultery.
Pearl achieves this by making Dimmesdale confess
to the town that he has committed this sin and
also by making her mother see that she is not as
bad a sinner as she believes. When the Puritans
look at Hester and Pearl, they think that Pearl is
a child of the devil and think she is a
black-hearted girl be...
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Hawthorne Depicts Guilt In The Scarlet Letter
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne paints a
picture of two equally guilty sinners, Hester
Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale, and shows how both
characters deal with their different forms of
punishment and feelings of remorse for what they
have done. Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale
are both guilty of adultery, but have altered ways
of performing penance for their actions. While
Hester must pay for her sins under the watchful
eye of the world around her, Reverend Dimmesdale
must endure t...
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Reverend Dimmesdale Roger Chillingworth
617 words
The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, is a novel about adultery committed by
young Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale in the
Puritan world of seventeenth century Boston. Even
though, they share the relationship of extremely
opposing each other throughout the book,
Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, an alchemist,
antagonist, and Hester's husband, are different
and similar in appearance, respect, and how they
change throughout the novel. Chillingworth and
Dimmesdale come from ver...
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Style Of Writing Hester And Dimmesdale
1,567 words
The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
in the mid 19 th century is considered the first
great American novel and Hawthorne's best work
(Thompson 312) The setting of the novel was in
Boston in the 17 th century, when Puritanism was
in full effect. The author of the novel, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, changed his name from Hawthorne to
Hawthorne because he was ashamed that he was in
direct line of decent of Judge Hawthorne who had
been one of the persecutors in the Salem witch
trials. It was s...
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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
1,271 words
Although 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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Hester And Pearl Helps The Reader
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Hawthorne s Life Versus Life In The Scarlet Letter
To understand a book the reader must understand
the background and lifetime of the author.
Nathaniel Hawthorne s childhood was one in which
he was brought up by a conservative family in a
Puritan Community. He was not totally sold on his
culture s ideas on many subjects. His own uncle
was a judge in the witch trials of Salem.
Hawthorne was embarrassed about his uncle and his
involvement in the witch trials. Hawthorne was
born July 4, 1804 and th...
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Scarlet Letter Hester Person In The World
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Pearl is the living embodiment of the scarlet
letter because she forces Hester and Dimmesdale to
accept their sins. The Puritan society looks at
Pearl as a child of the devil, and a black hearted
girl because she is the result of sin. Hester and
Dimmesdale are both in the same situation in
Pearl? s eyes. Pearl wants Hester to realize that
she is not the worst person in the world before
she removes the scarlet letter. Pearl wants
Dimmesdale to accept his sin, and be part of their
life publicly. P...
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Slippery Slope Scarlet Letter
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But (Hester) is not the protagonist; the chief
actor, and the tragedy of The Scarlet Letter is
not her tragedy, but Dimmesdale's. He it was whom
the sorrows of death encompassed... His public
confession is one of the noblest climaxes of
tragic literature. This statement by Randall
Stewart does not contain the same ideas that I
believed were contained within The Scarlet Letter,
by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I, on the contrary to
Stewarts statement, think Dimmesdale is a coward
and a hypocrite. Worse, h...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Role Model
680 words
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,
Dimmesdale, experiences the most emotional
suffering from the weight of guilt placed upon him
as the father of an illegitimate child. His lover,
Hester Prynne bears their child and is chastised
and exiled from her peers. The identity of the
father is kept secret, so the community respects
Dimmesdale as a member of the Doctrine of the
Elect. Dimmesdale is considered a role model for
other Puritans of Boston. Dimmesdale suffers the
most because of the p...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Hester And Dimmesdale
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Freedom within a Forest Often in society people
are placed under a microscope and criticized,
punished, and despised for their individual
choices and flaws. In Nathaniel Hawthorne? s, The
Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid
Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge
his or her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every
human being needs the opportunity to express how
he or she truly feels; otherwise the emotions are
bottled up until they become so compacted they
erupt. Unfortunatel...
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Hester And Pearl Contributes To The Theme
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Often in literature, themes are often influenced
and developed through literary techniques. There
is no exception for The Scarlet Letter, written by
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main theme of this novel
is suffering, punishment, and redemption. Many
characters such as: Hester, Dimmesdale and Pearl
go through these stages somewhere in the novel.
The three literary techniques that show how this
theme is influenced and developed are symbols,
setting, and structure. Some of these symbols are
the forest,...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Sin Of Adultery
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The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter, by
Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a dark tale of sin and
redemption centered on a small Puritan community.
The setting may be approached in two ways in the
Scarlet Letter. One way is to look at the meaning
or emotional overtones of specific places. A
second and broader example is to examine the whole
Puritan world in which Hawthorne has set this
novel. The setting is in Boston, Massachusetts in
the 1640 s. The central themes of this novel are
guilt and hypocrisy. ...
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Hawthorne Describes Scarlet Letter
2,381 words
There are two main themes that Hawthorne he uses
in the novel both are related. Through his diction
Hawthorne seems to emphasize the severity of
Puritan law as a theme, the other is the
strictness of Puritan society. In the opening
chapter he carefully describes the prison as an?
ugly edifice? and gloomy? even though the prison
is old, it still has the power to enforce the
severe Puritan laws whatever they may be. He
describes the door of the prison as being? .
Heavily timbered with oak and stud...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Light And Darkness
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Adultery, betrayal, promiscuity, deception, and
conspiracy, all of which would make an excellent
coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and
probably a rather erotic book. Add Puritan ideals
and writing styles, making it long, drawn out,
sleep inducing, tedious, dim-witted, and the end
result is The Scarlet Letter. Despite all these
unfavorable factors it is considered a classic and
was a statement of the era (Letter 1). The Scarlet
Letter is pervaded with profound symbolism and
revolves around...
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