Apology Letter Essay

The text The Scarlet Letter is a romance novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that has been a classic piece of literature for over 100 years. The story tells about a young woman named Hester, who has committed adultery with a man who she loves more than her own husband, who is considered lost at sea. The act causes her to fall pregnant, and soon afterwards all the townspeople discover what she has done and are enraged by it. As punishment, they sew a scarlet letter A for Adulteress on her clothes. The…

philosophical movement known as Transcendentalism which supported the ideas of civil disobedience, self-reliance, and nature as a reflection of God. Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the Transcendentalist authors, uses the idea of this philosophy in The Scarlet Letter (1850), in which Hester Prynne along with her daughter, Pearl, is cast out by the Puritans as an adulterer. While Hester has been punished for her sin, Arthur Dimmesdale, the town pastor, is overcome with guilt as he is the other…

people created a new meaning for her scarlet letter “they said that it meant Able, so strong was Hester Prynne”. (pg 127) Throughout the novel Hester evolves into a motherly figure to her own child and to all of her…

Puritan culture of the 1600s portrayed the forest as the devils playground where people go, only to bring evil back to their supposed perfect society. Nathaniel Hawthorne displays the clash between these conflicting perspectives in his book The Scarlet Letter (1850). The story is set in seventeenth-century Boston that is surrounded by wilderness, as most American colonies were at that time. Hawthorne uses this surrounding forest as one of his contrasting devices, illuminating the conflict…

When examining The Scarlet Letter and “Young Goodman Brown,” there are similarities and differences in regards to how Hawthorne presents and tells of witchcraft and Satanic influence and activity. For starters, the forest is perceived to be the center of satanic activities, and it is the place where townspeople go to meet with the devil in both stories. There is also an overall recognition and acceptance of the existence of witches by all of the characters mentioned in the stories. However,…

Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism throughout the entirety of The Scarlet Letter to show the importance and meaning of several people, objects, and things. Hawthorne utilizes these precious symbols throughout the novel for various reasons. While some symbols only have one distinct meaning, others are ambiguous, unlocking the secrets of a story. For example, Hester’s beloved scarlet letter “A”, the most obvious symbol in the narrative, takes on many meanings, such as shame, punishment, and…

been known for its basis of sin andevil. By vaguely evaluating the two novel-based movies, The Scarlet Letter by NathanielHawthorne and Moby Dick by Herman Melville, one may seem to only find differences.The Scarlet Letter is about a young married woman named Hester Prynne, who becomespregnant and has a child in the absence of her husband; she is then forced to live in hershame and wear the letter “A” on her bosom for “adulteress”. Once her clandestinehusband Roger Chillingworth comes into town…

It is better to let out a secret sooner rather than later because it can make a person to go insane. The novel The Scarlet letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne was filled with secrets and conflicts. The novel takes place during the 1850s; when people were accused for multiple reasons and trialed. Most of the trials were for adultery. In this novel, one character; Arthur Dimmesdale was accused for adultery. He loved Hester Prynne who also was accused for adultery because she was already…

Though Milan Kundera’s Joke drives its inspiration from the story of a girl who was arrested for stealing flowers from the cemetery, the novel is not a mere love story. It has deep political undertones and bears testimony to the author’s belief regarding the function of the novelist, which is to show people’s philosophy of the nature of men’s existence’. Kundera advocates his firm political belief, which is ‘to protest against the mutilation of works of art in the name of an ideological doctrine…

In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard, both authors use images of grass in order to convey a lack of care for human suffering. Conrad emphasizes the ability of grass to grow to conceal something hidden in order to chastise European exploration, while Trethewey points out the tendency of grass to burn and regrow that parallels attempts made to dishonor and hide the efforts made by black regiments. Conrad uses images of grass in order to juxtapose grass’s growth…