Cover Letter Essay

Dimmesdale’s decision to leave Boston changed him internally and externally. His newfound freedom allowed him to become in charge of his own identity by telling Chillingworth to leave, but by dismissing him, he lies again. When Chillingworth lies to him too, it shows that Chillingworth continues to walk the path he started, lying more and more. Dimmesdale, who had a reborn freedom and found his identity chose the same path as he did before, continuing to lie. Even though his action of burning…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter he shows how individuals should not conform to religious and social guidelines in society. There is no sense of individualism in 1600s Salem because laws envelop every bit of human society. With all these severe rules in place, there are bound to be rebellious actions. The individual in todays society feels the need to follow the normal in society, through the scarlet letter Hawthorne demonstrates that there is no need to do so. The new Puritan society…

The Role of the Scarlet Letter While many individuals in The Scarlet Letter could be called the main character, people often overlook the importance of the scarlet letter itself. In Nina Baym’s thoughtful analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the most attention-grabbing articles is “The Scarlet Letter in The Scarlet Letter.” In this article, Baym shows that the physical “A”s seen on Hester, the night sky, and Reverend Dimmesdale play very important roles in the novel.…

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne conforms to the life of shame and guilt as she is required to wear the symbol of adultery on her chest. Hester is treated as a disgrace to puritan society because she has the undeniable proof of her sinful action, Pearl. Throughout her conformation Hester has changed from a passionate woman into a “bare and harsh outline” of her older self because of the A she, now, proudly wears on her chest. When Hester gets branded with the letter A upon her chest she…

Screaming all i hear screaming, yelping, whimpering, I hear my sister yelling like a banshee growling like a tiger, snarling like a wild beast, there is so much grief, pain and anger in her tone of voice. I make out the sound of my mom screeching, weeping, sobbing, howling, roaring like a lion, bellowing there is sadness, pain and regret in her thundering voice. The whole room is dark i can’t see anything. Sweet, salty tears run down my face. I feel like i am being squeezed by snake, my…

eventually destroy a person and isolates a person. From the beginning of the Scarlet Letter, Hester Pryne was the only person being publicly punished for a sin that she not only committed, but someone else. The other person was Aurthur Dimmesdale, no one knew who also committed this sin, so when regret started to derive he was being internally and externally destroyed. The reader of the Scarlet Letter would come to this conclusion by analyzing the drastic changes that Dimmesdale went…

will significantly impact them as an individual. In the following text, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne’s reputation was ruined with one careless mistake. Despite being hated by everyone in the Puritan community, Hester learned to ignore what the townspeople had to say and tried to create a better life for her daughter and herself. Another piece of writing that is similar to The Scarlet Letter is a poem called “If,” by Rudyard Kipling. Throughout this poem, it discusses…

The Scarlet Letter begins its story by introducing the main character, Hester Prynne. She has just been released from prison to fulfill her punishment of public humiliation. Hawthorne helps us illustrate not only Hester’s appearance, but also her personality through his syntactical description of her composure as she is being led to the scaffold to be exposed to the whole town. “In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne written in the 1850’s is an American gothic novel that is about the sin and life of Hester Prynne and the novel also portrays acts of evil demonstrated by Roger Chillingworth, the ex-husband of Hester who she cheated on. Another American Gothic novel that portrays evil is Moby Dick by Herman Melville, written in 1851, which is about a sailor who is after the white whale that took his leg, this character also portrays a lot of evil acts throughout this…

was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart with a first flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain” (Hawthorne 90). When Dimmesdale places his hand over his chest, it represents the scarlet letter on Hester Prynne’s bosom. Dimmesdale’s health begins to decline because he feels guilty of the sin he committed with Hester Prynne. The guilt from the secret that Hester Prynne…