Similarities Between Hester And Melville And Bartleby The Scrivener

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Register to read the introduction… Hester is the protagonist in the story and commits the crime of committing adultery with Dimmesdale. She is then punished for her mischievous actions and publicly humiliated on the scaffold. Although the identity of her fellow adulterer is kept a secret throughout most of the book, readers see Hester and Dimmesdale’s human desires cloud their judgment. They both care and love each other and even though they can’t physically be seen together, they still are together spiritually. The sin that they committed was not only one of love and passion, but also a sin of human desire even though the possibility of them being together forever was not probable. “ The links that united her to the rest of human kind-- links of flowers, or silk, or gold, or whatever the material-- had all been broken. Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break”(Hawthorne 136). This statement displays the notion that they were not linked to society anymore. Their only link was each other, and they maintained this link through their human desires, disregarding whether they were good or evil. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the dichotomy between the Forest and Town shows the unbridgeable gap between human possibilities and …show more content…
In “Bartleby the Scrivener”, Melville shows the human desires and human possibilities in the Lawyer’s actions, whether good or evil. In The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this idea is shown in two separate ways. One way being through the use of Hester and her desire driven relationship with Dimmesdale, and the other way by showing the differences and comparisons between the Forest and the Town. These two writers are therefore known for writing in their tragic

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