Confirmation Letter Essay

The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, depicts a woman’s opposition to strict Puritan society in the 1700’s. Nathaniel Hawthorne shares a story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ostracizing Hester Prynne. According to the laws of the church, adultery calls for severe punishment. Therefore, the Puritan society bestows harsh punishment unto Prynne after she commits adultery with an unknown man. Hawthorne’s choice of words indicates his disagreement with the Puritan society’s verdict of Hester…

Academic Essay Finding a poem that multiple readers can connect with can be a difficult task. Not everyone is love and not everyone has been heart broken. Philip Dacey’s poems have a relatability to multiple people and often have a message to get across to his readers. From poems about crucifix factories to bull riding, Philip Dacey has found a way to connect with his readers. “The Feet Man” is a poem about working in a factory that makes crucifixes. The narrator of the poem had the job of…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, tells the tale of a Puritan community in Massachusetts, rocked by scandal. Hester Prynne is convicted of adultery after the birth of her daughter and the disappearance of her husband three years prior. Her fellow sinner, the reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, is never discovered after Hester lies to protect him. Dimmesdale is shown under constant duress throughout the story as the guilt of what he committed builds inside of him. The pressure and stress created…

There are two types of people in life, people who change and stay the same. Each story that we read contained at least two main characters that were static and dynamic. The first story is “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe. The second is “The Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and the last is “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. In these stories there are two types of characters, static such as Fortunato and dynamic such as Rainsford and Madame Loisel. The Cask of Amontillado had one…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about Hester Prynne, who’s the protagonist. Overall, she has been branded with the letter A, which signifies adultery, for the wrong that she has done in her life. For the rest of her life, and till death, she is forced to wear forever her public shame. Now, in the society that we live in currently, people aren’t branded, but if I was branded with a letter that shows my flaw, what would it be? What letter would I have that would shame for the rest of…

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn, takes place in 1642 Boston, Massachusetts and is about a woman named Hester Prynne, who is married to Roger Chillingworth but committed adultery with the town’s Reverend, Author Dimmesdale and had a baby, named Pearl. People, in this time period, believed that adultery was one of the worst sins to commit and forced Hester to wear a scarlet letter A, on her chest, to remind her of her sin. Another American gothic novel, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, is…

The scarlet letter is supposed to be a symbol of dishonor; however, Hester Prynne turns the meaning around, and it becomes a symbol to distinguish her. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter shows that one should not flee from sin but should take it on directly. Puritans came to the New World to change the rules; however, committing adultery was not one of them and is still looked at as a terrible sin. Adultery is the sin of being unfaithful and cheating on one’s partner. Even though Hester is…

“The Possibility of Evil” QuickWrite Journal The short story “The Possibility of Evil”, by Shirley Jackson uses symbols to represent abstract ideas. In the story the first name mentioned is Miss Adela Strangeworth, this already intrigues the audience because of her last name. Her last name Strangeworth already indicates that something “strange” will occur throughout the story. This symbol can be a representation of her actions and who she is as a person. She seems strange during the beginning…

Through a single independent clause, it is simply stated Hester is no longer confined in prison. However, her freedom is not that simple, due to her decision to stay in the community she is still confined within the puritan model of society. The syntax here used signifies that Hester being free from the prison is a small action and simple in the grand scheme of things. Thus, the syntax makes a subtle comment that Hester is to endure a much harsher form of confinement now within her community as…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about the vengeance of a man after his ex-wife suffers for her sin in a small town in Boston whilst taking care of her daughter she bore after cheating on him with the town minister. Herman Melville wrote a similar American gothic novel titled Moby Dick, which is about a wildly obsessed captain seeking revenge and death on a gargantuan white whale along with his shipmates. The Character, Captain Ahab, was written after King Ahab in the Bible…