The Scarlet Pimpernel

self-centered minister who is drowning in his guilt from a sin? Neither have I. Most ministers one can think of is a God-like figure who no one would think would sin like themselves because of the ministers’ devotion to their faith and God. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Puritan community thought their beloved minister could never sin, but in fact Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is a devoted minister who has done the sin of adultery with his secret lover Hester whose sin is…

The Scarlet Letter written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne was about what happens when you commit one of the greatest sins and it starts to eat you up inside because you don’t want to confess. The book is set in seventeenth century Boston, Massachusetts. In this time period the Puritans were extremely religious and they believed if you did good deeds you would be sent to Heaven and if you committed a sin you would be condemned to Hell. When men commit a sin in the Puritan society they are less…

Seventeenth century, romance, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne enhances the meaning and importance of the letter A through the main character and protagonist, Hester Prynne, who has committed the sinful act of adultery. As her punishment she is to wear the scarlet letter A imprinted on her so all will know of her wrong doing. As Hester begins to embrace the permanent embellishment of herself, she begins to alter the meaning of the letter into a more promising and encouraging meaning…

The novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells of an adulteress named Hester Prynne in the New England Puritan society. This adulteress gives birth to a daughter, Pearl Prynne, while accompanied by her partner in adultery, Reverend Dimmesdale, and her lost husband Roger Chillingworth in this highly offensive and judgmental society. Each of these main characters changes through each of the scaffold scenes which signifies a place of hiding and releasing secrets and confessions…

one can write or say one statement while implying a completely separate opinion rather easily. This theory is prevalent among the great authors of our time, but none so much as Nathaniel Hawthorne. For example, throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne’s varying usage of enticing imagery and marvelous diction reflect how the Puritans feel about Hester, as a result implying how his opinions of the group. Within the novel, Hawthorne shows the Puritans as pertaining from one…

jeering laughter” (Hawthorne 101). The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the article “Concerns Raised on ‘Scarlet Letter’ for Drunk Drivers,” by Toni Locy, both provided very different examples of public shaming. Both show the pros and cons of shaming by either telling a story or explaining people’s opinions. The Scarlet Letter provides a historic view on shaming during the Puritan times. A woman named Hester is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter to show that she has sinned.…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter is set in a time when colonists were trying to create a better society than they were previously used to. Early Puritan towns set out to do just that; create a utopian society where puritan morals were followed very strictly. Hawthorne’s anti-transcendentalist views give a clear focus on the communities’ strict views that show no regard for the individuals in society, but only for the conformity needed to repress any sinful lures that may tarnish the…

The Scarlet Letter, which focuses on Hester Prynne, a woman ostracized from society for adultery, Hawthorne depicts 17th century Boston and the way women were treated at that time. Furthermore, from his depiction, one may notice a feminist foundation upon which he wrote the book. Hawthorne’s representation of the women in the 17th century, the women’s rights movement in the 19th century, and the women in his own life play a significant role in the feminist portrayals of women in The Scarlet…

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne gives readers a taste of what life was like in a society controlled by Puritans. It is a miserable life, as Hawthorne shows readers through the degradation of Hester Prynne, the adulterous protagonist, who has to bear being isolated from society. In the sidelines, there is Reverend Dimmesdale, who is tortured internally by his secret “sin” of having an affair with Prynne. And while all of this is going on, Roger Chillingworth, Prynne’s revenge-ridden…

letter A" ( Hawthorne 45). In the book, The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is a woman convicted of adultery and who must wear the letter A upon her chest for her sin. The reader may assume that Hester is a coward who refuses to show her face in town after this incident but instead, Hester is a strong leader because of her ability to be honest about her sin through the symbol of the scarlet letter. Because of her ability to show her sin through scarlet letter that she must wear, she becomes a…