Confirmation Letter Essay

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a book written about punishment of bearing the cost of Adultery. This features the leading character, Hester Prynne, to live with a letter A, standing for Adultery, and to raise her only child, Pearl who was born out of the result of the sin, as a single parent. The appearance of the letter was first broadcasted to the public in the second chapter of the book when Hester and Pearl both was stood on a scaffold to be publically humiliated for her sin.…

in The Scarlet Letter by breaking down Puritanical control of society through the unknown lineage of Pearl. She states, “In Hawthornean romance, doubt is the condition of our lives in this world. Faith is the willingness to entertain and keep alive our skepticism alongside our commitment to thinking and acting determinately” (Budick 84). Budick claims that due to the indeterminate and changing nature of the answers to both the question of Whose child is Pearl? and What does the letter mean?…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, sin and repentance are recurring topics, depicted in the novel’s three main characters. Each can be accused of immorality, and each suffers differently as a result of their offenses, however, only one individual clearly repents of his sins. Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the theme of sin and repentance is apparent in the characters of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale. During the entirety of the novel,…

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne likes to blur the lines between what is real and what is not, leaving his readers to interpret what they want from his writing. Ambiguity in Hawthorne 's novel is one way he adds a certain level of conciseness that almost every romantic story requires. He gives you the general theme without really giving away the message and that is what makes The Scarlett Letter and many of his other books intriguing to read. In The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne…

A is for Alibi In The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale, one of the main characters, has declining health from which he, at the end of the novel, unfortunately dies. The readers of the novel were left to decide the reason for both Dimmesdale's declining health and death. Based on observations, many readers conclude that the reason for Arthur Dimmesdale's declining health and death was the overwhelming guilt he had augmented from being unable to confess his sins. However, Dr. Jemshed A. Khan in…

Self- Made Identity, and The Identity Society Burdens Her With: In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main turmoil of the story follows a young woman who is burdened by the austere constraints of the Puritanical society she lives in. For her punishment of adultery, she is forced to wear a scarlet letter on her chest at all times representing her shame for the world to see. Throughout the novel, the letter, among other things, gains a vulgar reputation in the town to which many form…

what kind of power he has over her. From the start, it is possible to see how Briony’s vivid imagination and her lack of understanding of adult dynamics can contribute to her misinterpretation of certain events. This continues when she reads Robbie’s letter to Cecilia, which leads Briony to think Robbie is a potential threat to her sister and starts to believe he is a “maniac”. She immediately “casts herself as her sister’s protector” (McEwan, 2002, p. 115) for “she did not doubt that her…

While reading The Scarlet Letter, I was introduced to many characters such as Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl Prynne. Of all the main characters in the story, the person I most empathize with is Pearl. Even though Pearl is a little girl, I can understand, in a way, what she is going through. Throughout the beginning of the story, she has no idea who her father is. While I have known my father for my whole life i have known of people who have never met…

The most important part of any story is the plot, but what is the most important part of the plot? As shown in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the characters are what drives the plot. Characters can drive the plot in a couple of ways that can be shown with The Scarlet Letter; they can be symbols, they can be used to show aspects of the plot in a more visual and less abstract way, and they will physically move the plot forward. Without the characters there is no plot and so by…

Revenge is one of the classic staples in drama, and its role in The Scarlet Letter is perhaps one of the greatest examples. The story is about Hester Prynne, a woman who tries to raise her daughter in a Puritanical society that shuns her for cheating on her husband, later revealed in the story as a man named Roger Chillingworth. As a result of this sinful deed, she is condemned to wear a scarlet letter, the letter “A”, as a reminder of the atrocity she had committed. Her lover is Arthur…