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The Scarlet Letter Symbolic Characters
954 wordsSymbolic 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. Arthur hides his sin and becomes extremely troubled. Hester's husband, Roger, takes it upon himself to judge and punish Arthur for his sin and becomes like the devil....
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Hand Over His Heart Hester And Pearl
1,698 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a novel about the guilt of sin in a Puritanical society and how sometimes it is better to face your mistakes and admit them than to hide them and suffer inside. The result of sin can often produce something beautiful. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale are the sinners in this book. They commit adultery and bring a child into the world. That child is Pearl. Pearl is a beautiful and stunning girl. Everywhere she goes the attention is on her. There is no...
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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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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Massachusetts Bay Colony
5,135 wordsChapter 1: Hester Prynne has committed adultery. Two years ago her husband in Europe sent her on ahead to America while he settled some business affairs. Alone in the small town of Boston, Hester has shocked and angered her neighbors by secretly taking a lover and bringing forth a girl child. The Puritans of Boston are shocked that she has done this thing. They are angry because she will not reveal the name of the father of the child. Although the usual penalty for adultery is death, the Puritan...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Salem Witch Trials
5,631 wordsGuilt as Reparation for Sin in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel about a Puritan woman who has committed adultery and must pay for her sin by wearing a scarlet A on her bosom. The woman, Hester Prynne, must struggle through everyday life with the guilt of her sin. The novel is also about the suffering that is endured by not admitting to one s wrongs. Reverend Mister Dimmesdale learns that secrecy only makes the guilt increase. Nathaniel Hawthorne is trying to display how guilt is ...
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Mistress Hibbins Roger Chillingworth
2,354 wordsThe Scarlet Letter The 6 th Sense of Sinners In the Novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the society of a Puritan town of Boston excludes anyone who is a nonconformist or is in any way deviant from their thoughts, laws, and standards. However, the townspeople themselves are not without fault. However, they try to conceal and contain their passions and all their faults due to their own fear of being excluded. All the characters in the book who are excluded from society are the ones w...
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Hester Prynne Roger Chillingworth
642 wordsIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth are both physically and emotionally affected by the events which took place in their lives. During the course of the story, all three of the characters are disturbed by their pasts which are affecting their present lives and future. Hester is the only character that can not hide her mistake due to her pregnancy. Although, she can hide who the father of her child is, Dimmesdale. The mistakes of ...
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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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Dimmesdale And Chillingworth Hester Prynne
1,311 wordsScarlet 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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