Apology Letter Essay

Sin easily leads someone astray from what is morally right. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book, The Scarlet Letter, the adulteress Hester Prynne lives life in sin. When her sin has time to fester, Hester is often left with feelings of loneliness and resentment from everyone around her. After years of rejection and judgement from the townspeople, she loses sight of morality and strays into a moral wilderness which is a strength and a weakness. Caring for others but not oneself can lead one into…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a provocative and beautiful novel which takes place during the 1680s in Boston. The Scarlet Letter dives deep into topics such as adultery and the darker side of magic that would be deemed taboo at the time of its original publication. Hester Prynne and her daughter, Pearl are two main characters in the novel and noticeably go through a constructive metamorphosis and growth together as a mother and daughter unit as the years go by. Hester evolves as a…

stepped into the open air, as if by her own free-will” (36). This action signifies that she is more imagination minded rather than reason, as she is unwilling to work with a member of the puritan community. Her imagination is also shown in the scarlet letter itself, Hester made it extravagant and…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel “The Scarlet Letter”, setting is used to portrait characters and their role in the novel. Hawthorne’s uses of setting is extremely important to completely understand the characters and how their surroundings help model their personalities. He uses the woods on the outskirts of town to connect characters with nature and the feeling of rejuvenation. He uses the center of town and the scaffold to show who in the town has the power and order. The uses of the chapel and…

Reliability of the Narrator’s Account in Poe’s ‘The Tale-tell Heart’ ‘The Tell-tale Heart’ is a short story written by the famous writer, Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1843 and was revised to its present form in 1845 (Seghir, H.M., Djelloul, B., & Noureddine, B., 2013). The tell-tale Heart is a story of a murder, told by the murderer, himself. It tells about an old man who is seemingly under the care of a young person. The relationship of the characters in the story was not…

Character Comparison: Younger Heathcliff vs. Older Heathcliff Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë, published in the year 1847. Wuthering Heights – a farmhouse – is the location of where the novel is set, along with the property of the Lintons, Thrushcross Grange. The main themes in the novel are jealousy (caused by love) and vengeance. There is an ongoing feud between two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons over the inheritance of property. In Wuthering Heights, one of the…

During the Medieval time period, it is evident that women were customarily discriminated against as well as, oppressed by and sanctioned by a certain role within every society. However, the Medieval time period comes with it’s very own historical female figures that set out to renounce and bend these gender roles and social norms regardless of the consequences and social scrutiny that was laid out by the men of their time. It is palpable that religion played a major role in the development of…

writing The Scarlet Letter. He did this to make the reader think deeper about the story, and to make it have a figurative meaning. A symbol doesn’t always have to be an object or a sign, in the case of The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses Pearl and many other people as symbols. Settings, or where the story takes place, can be used as a symbol as well. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses symbolism while portraying Pearl, Dimmesdale’s “sickness”, and through the scarlet letter.…

Demons; Wretched beasts from the pits of Hell ordered to serve Satan. We all have demons residing inside us and they can be awakened at any moment either through traumatic events or by the demon in the bottle, alcohol. Throughout his life, poet Edgar Allan Poe struggled with alcoholism and this is apparent throughout his short stories and poem. Most noteably his short story, The Black Cat, where the narrators actions are influenced by the demon in the bottle or perhaps influenced by the animal…

The Scarlet Letter, created by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 is story about a strong young women named Hester Prynne who is being punished in front of her entire Puritan community in Massachusetts Bay Colony for committing adultery with a town minister. Because of her sins committed, she is now sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom to mark her shame because of her choice to have a love affair with a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout the whole story, Hester can be seen as a…