Application Letter Essay

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, focuses its attention around many predominant themes, which generate innumerable interpretations. Motifs such as adultery, revenge, and forgiveness are prevalent within the novel based on Puritan locale. The characters of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, each exhibit behaviors, which have been placed upon them by the burdens in their everyday lives. The Scarlett Letter focuses on the puritanical judgment of…

keeping with society, Dimmesdale held his secret until his untimely death, so that he would not have any cruel repercussions. In one last act of glory, Dimmesdale “he tore away the ministerial band from his chest” (242), revealing his very own scarlet letter, evidence that he was the mystery adulterer. Dimmesdale’s actions in the novel are indicative of his role in society. He continues to act as a minister, but secretly suffers in his heart because of his grave sin. The sense of conformity in…

past is done, so forget it; your future is yet to come, so dream it.” People learn from their past in order to learn from their mistakes. They know that they can fix them and become better people. It wasn 't always like that, in the book The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character Hester realizes that even though she did she committed a sin in her past the Puritan community sees that sin as one of the worst sins you can commit and will never forget what she has done.…

The Letter in Life: the role of Pearl and Chillingworth In the corners of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, stand two fascinating characters—Pearl Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. Both of these characters are intimately connected with the protagonist, Hester Prynne, as her illegitimate child and her estranged husband. They each have a surreal presence and are deeply involved in Hester’s life, particularly her life after the discovery of her adultery. They are made to be very…

All people have their own views of what it means to be an American. One’s vision typically revolves around the values of society and the situation that the people are placed in. Suffering leads to a dream of success, while suppression leads to a dream of change and independence. Pieces of literature from American history show that Americans are willing to overcome adversity when faced with it, using idiosyncrasies between themselves and their environment to grow and make themselves stronger.…

Composers raise social and political issues that reflect the context in which they are exposed, in order to critique and analyse the values and prejudice of their time towards the outsider. The Victorian text ‘Scarlet Letter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorn revolves around the Puritan religion in relation to the outsider. It explores the dangers of a society that make religion and politics the sole basis of its law and order. Similarly, Todd Haynes 2002 film ‘Far from Heaven’ reflects issues of…

which he uses specific diction with the passionate, connotative style in a more informal tone in order to draw attention to the theme of logic versus emotion and to highlight the thoughts and feelings of the main characters affected by the Scarlet Letter. The two main tone shifts are apparent, but subtler shifts into neutral and colloquial tones are included, allowing Hawthorne to capture the shifting thoughts and moods of the main characters as the story progresses. The author allows imagery…

The past of America is portrayed in both The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F. Karlsen and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, giving us a better perspective into our past. Puritan New England sets the stage for the two novels because the society is what shapes the characters and the events of both novels. Both novels show relations with Puritan society, sin, and women 's sexuality. However, the portrayal of the different sides of Puritan America and the focus of the novels are…

The Scarlet Letter tells the tale of a woman named Hester Prynne, who has an illegitimate child, Pearl, with one of Boston’s well-known ministers, Arthur Dimmesdale. Set in Puritan New England in the 1700s, the environment encircles the Puritan beliefs as well as the Puritan government. Caught by the town when her pregnancy starts to show, Hester is sentenced to prison time and public humiliation for her adultery. As she raises Pearl she encounters her eccentric behavior and wild actions in…

The justification behind the concept of punishment takes many different forms. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the primary rationale behind the Puritans’ punishment of Hester Prynne, the accused adulteress, is retributive, in proportional to the nature of the transgression. The Puritans intend their punishment of ostracism and forced visibility of the letter “A” to match Hester’s crime of adultery by shaming her with a sense of damnation. However, ironically this punishment brings an…