Gabriel Kocer
SLEssay
English 11 Period 4
16 November 2017
Wilted Roses
A rose, begins its life growing to be a beautiful and vibrant flower pleasing to the eye. As the rose grows older and loses the sunlight, it darkens and its petals begin to fall. During everyone’s life we are seen as both fazes of the rose, there are moments in our life where we do good and are seen as the striking rose, but there are also times in our lives where we sin and fall short of greatness appearing as the darker and less attractive rose. The setting of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter begins in the Puritanical 17th century in Boston, where Hester Prynne, the protagonist, is our focus for the adultery she has committed. Light and dark imagery, alluding to the larger conflict between good and evil, is present through the novel in the characters of Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth.
Hester Prynne struggles with the snares of society and the people around her, but her strife is mostly within herself, although she struggles with the acceptance of her sin she finds goodness through her good deeds. “Mother said little Pearl, the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and …show more content…
As the rose has beautiful and unpleasant qualities, we too, as people have good and bad qualities. As the characters in the book are seen to have dark and sinful times in their life, we are set to find the good within them. The characters sin and grow out of the light of goodness and become a dark and gloomy rose, but after the characters have felt the remorse of their morally wrong doings, they repent and try to find the light and goodness again within their actions but they never recover to become the same beautiful
SLEssay
English 11 Period 4
16 November 2017
Wilted Roses
A rose, begins its life growing to be a beautiful and vibrant flower pleasing to the eye. As the rose grows older and loses the sunlight, it darkens and its petals begin to fall. During everyone’s life we are seen as both fazes of the rose, there are moments in our life where we do good and are seen as the striking rose, but there are also times in our lives where we sin and fall short of greatness appearing as the darker and less attractive rose. The setting of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter begins in the Puritanical 17th century in Boston, where Hester Prynne, the protagonist, is our focus for the adultery she has committed. Light and dark imagery, alluding to the larger conflict between good and evil, is present through the novel in the characters of Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth.
Hester Prynne struggles with the snares of society and the people around her, but her strife is mostly within herself, although she struggles with the acceptance of her sin she finds goodness through her good deeds. “Mother said little Pearl, the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and …show more content…
As the rose has beautiful and unpleasant qualities, we too, as people have good and bad qualities. As the characters in the book are seen to have dark and sinful times in their life, we are set to find the good within them. The characters sin and grow out of the light of goodness and become a dark and gloomy rose, but after the characters have felt the remorse of their morally wrong doings, they repent and try to find the light and goodness again within their actions but they never recover to become the same beautiful