Cover Letter Essay

Hester Prynne, the talk of the town, along with her young daughter Pearl, have become the subject of ridicule for the town of Boston. Hester has committed an unspeakable sin against the church and her husband. Hester should have her daughter taken away and her sentence should be lengthened as a result of her poor choices. Even so, Hester will not and can not understand the severity of her act if she is to live a blessed life with the only good thing to come from it, her daughter, Pearl.…

Creating a more realistic story with his usage of historical figures as actual characters in the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses these minor characters—Governor Bellingham, Mistress Hibbins, and Reverend Wilson—to not only help develop the main characters’ plotline, but to mainly use them as examples of aspects in Puritan society that he does not support completely. In his writing style, he never directly criticizes the people, but he uses ironical situations with minor…

A Familiar Character “The Screwtape Letters” is an epistolary novel written by C.S. Lewis in 1942 from the point of view of a senior demon writing to his nephew. Primarily written with Irony and Satire, this book is more than a literary masterpiece. The Letters are thought-provoking and inspiring, in that they are an interpretive description of what the Devil is trying to do through various situations in our lives. In the letters, the human character, referred to as “The Patient”, experiences…

Scarlet Letter Hawthorne’s use of symbolism within The Scarlet Letter constitutes the use of objects, characters, settings, etc. to help unfurl an extravagantly woven tale around the ‘moral’ of the book from beginning to end. Within this though, Hawthorne’s use of symbolism is one that at times takes certain signature symbols within his stories and applies a different meaning of that symbol towards the characters within his stories such as the scarlet letter in this case. The scarlet letter is…

Born and raised in Massachusetts, author Nathaniel Hawthorne formulates The Scarlet Letter through the comfort and familiarity of his childhood home. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth-century, Hawthorne unravels the themes of corruption and sin in humanity through the character of Hester Prynne, otherwise known as the town adulterer. After conceiving her daughter, Pearl, through a forbidden affair, society alienates Hester as she brawls to conquer her…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter, we can find many ways to show that there are strong female characteristics in the main character Hester Prynne. Hester goes through many changes after being charged with the crime of adultery. Even though she had committed a crime, they decided to let her live her life in ignominy. As a strong female character, Hester proves that people can change over time even if she perpetrated a big sin. Though Hester is a strong female character this doesn’t conclude the…

It all starts with one question what's Hawthorne's thought process throughout the Scarlet Letter? In many ways Hawthorne's writing The Scarlet Letter shows is the use of Protestant and puritan life. It is been told that Hawthorne uses his writings to criticize Puritans. For example he uses Hester as the tortured heroine, exaggerate and how extreme Puritans are and how he presents his characters. Hawthorne good probably be one of the most symbolist writers of all time. Starting off…

The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a well known book, between the scandals and lies within it. It starts out with Hester prynne, a women from a small puritan community. Hester is forced to stand out in front of the people of her community for a few hours as punishment for breaking one of them many laws of the people. What law did she break to be forced to do this? She committed adultery, having a child with another man while still married to her husband back in amsterdam. Throughout…

The Scarlet letter is rich with symbols that have captivated readers for a number of years. Out of all of these symbols the forest seems to be the most profound because of the amount of interpretations that readers form about it. The Puritans cast the forest as evil and home of the devil because of the freedom it entails, however, to an individual such as Hester and Pearl it provides a sanctuary; a place for individuality without any influence from the Puritan society. The Puritan society…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a work of fiction which was set in seventeenth century in Boston. The story shows complex topics of the Puritan system in the colonial era and the idea of sin and justice. It is more than just the tale of sins, it is an intense love story between Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. The main character of the story, Hester Prynne is punished for her sin of adultery. Throughout the story, the author, Mr. Hawthorne seems to sympathize with…