Confirmation Letter Essay

Nathaniel Hawthorne in his gothic romance novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850), depicts the life and the hypocrisy of the Puritan communities in the colonial days. In the novel, protagonist Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A on her bosom to mark the guilt adulterous sin she committed with Arthur Dimmesdale, a Puritan minister, while her thought-to-be long gone husband, Roger Chillingworth, is on the hunt to seek revenge. Hawthorne’s use of dramatic irony builds suspense and tension as he divulges…

Intro: In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale wears no outside symbol of shame, yet buries it deep within. He has no law that condemned him to bear a letter marking him as sinful -- like the A pinned to Hester -- however, he is constantly reminded by his roommate. As the victim of Hester and Dimmesdale's affairs, Roger Chillingworth devotes his remaining life to forever remind Arthur of his sin. He tells Hester “few secrets can escape an investigator, who…

daughter, Pearl, and the mother, Hester Prynne, are characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a novel about sin and how people deal with the after effects of sin. Hawthorne uses Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the other adulterer, to show the effects of both private and public remedies of dealing with sin. Hester’s public shame in front of the entire town and wearing a scarlet letter A, as well as her private remedies…

Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel tells the story of the violence leading up to the 1947 Partition of India and its aftermaths. The novel focuses on the division of British India into two separate countries, India and Pakistan, and tells the story of this event through the eyes of a young Parsee girl named Lenny. Lenny is just a child at this time, and she must watch in horror as her country falls and a very large religious divide occurs between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs in India. We are able to see the…

I. Introduction 1) Body Paragraph 1: When Nathaniel Hawthorne first introduces Roger Chillingworth in the The Scarlet Letter, he describes his physical appearance as mildly deformed. 2) Body Paragraph 2: However, Roger becomes consumed by revenge and as a result, transforms into a decrepit, uglier, more deformed man. 2) Body Paragraph32: Roger is also initially presented as an incredibly bright man who loves reading and knowledge. As the novel progresses, however, Roger loses…

In his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Huck), Mark Twain satirizes falsehood, and dishonesty through Huck’s vernacular voice in order to show the ignorance of the shameful southern culture where the values consist of greed and manipulation. Although Twain criticizes this seemingly mendacious behavior of lying, he argues that there are circumstances in which deception is acceptable. He adopts a typical southerner mentality through Huck’s genuine voice for the purpose of expressing to…

The scarlet letter took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the seventeenth century. There are many themes and ideas in The Scarlet Letter, they were based on the beliefs of the puritans during that time. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the ideas of how society was being hypocritical and punishing others for their own pleasure throughout the book to show how the people in society treated Hester prynne based on the sin that she commited and pearl based on her parent's actions. The author exposes…

Thought to be the scandalous sinner in the Puritanical town of Boston and the disgraceful mother of a child out of wedlock, Hester Prynne is portrayed to be a shameful mistress in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. In a town where everyone acts as if they are saints, as soon as one citizen slips up and commits a human error, that event becomes the talk of the town. In Prynne’s case, her heinous act left her with the undeniable punishment of a child that prevents her from dismissing of her…

Violence rooted from the deepest relationships can be drawn back only to the idea of internal and physical entrapment. Richard Matheson’s “Prey”, William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily”, and Horacio Quiroga’s “The Feather Pillow” all have the universal moral that the violence, sometimes emotional more than physical, can only be procured from any feeling of entrapment. Violence in the short story “Prey” prevails throughout the entire story. It is seen that the monster that posses the young…

Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contains a heavy amount of symbolism. One symbol that is most prominent is the symbol of nature. First, we see the sunshine showing sin for Hester, and purity for Pearl. Along with this, there is the prickly burrs, which tag the sinner. Finally, there is the meteor striking across the sky as Dimmesdale sees this as acknowledgement of sin. All of these symbols give a greater meaning to the story. First, Hester and Pearl…