The Scarlet Letter Essay

classic novel The Scarlet Letter. A sin by the main character, Hester Pryne, pushes for Hester to now deal with the consequences of her actions. She, being a devout Puritan wishes the townspeople and God to forgive her and not to send her to hell. Hester’s effort to continue working and living her life despite the entire town being against her shows her strength in the face of adversaries, and her ability to forgive those who could not forgive her. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,…

Love vs. Hate In The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne he conveys, “It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object”. Hawthorne…

recurring component found in many of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works, such as Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil. No where else, however, does it have as prominent of a role as it does in The Scarlet Letter, taking many different forms amongst many different characters. The Scarlet Letter showcases the unstable relationship between the adulteress Hester Prynne, her husband Roger Chillingworth, and her accomplice in sin, Minister Dimmesdale. In this fascinating tale woven with secret…

The characters in The Scarlet Letter all have different experiences dealing with sin, causing different outcomes. Hester Prynne starts off as a sinner, rejected by her community, who is accepted back into the society. Chillingworth, on the other hand, starts off as a respected member of the community, but eventually becomes described as the devil itself. Dimmesdale is the fellow perpetrator to Hester’s sin, but cannot repent due to his position in the Puritan society. In each of the cases,…

The forest in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathanial Hawthorn is a recurring metaphor in the novel. Gossip and shame encircled the forest, causing a skewed view of this isolated location within the Puritan community. However, Hawthorne dubs the forest as a place of freedom, joy, and truth to those with secrets. Boston’s Puritan society of the mid 1600’s feared the near-by forest. Believing that “the black man that haunts the forest” (Hawthorn 71). The forest symbolized many things about…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the reader is introduced to Hester, a young woman that has committed adultery. Hester was a humiliation and disgrace to the Puritan society due to her sin. She is put on the scaffold to be humiliated in front of her town, then placed in jail. On page 64 it states, “Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult…” This…

Scarlet Letter Final Essay Assignment There were many different themes expressed in The Scarlet letter, but the theme that kept recurring was sin.All of the main characters in this book are sinners, and a sin is the act of doing wrong. Both Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale's sin was Adultery. Roger Chillingworth's sin was seeking revenge on Dimmesdale after he had an affair with his wife. In the beginning of The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne is married to Roger Chillingworth. Chillingworth…

“perfect” image. They have been persecuted through time for taking a standing and showing their independence. Women were treated as inferior to men. In the story The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the meaning of the letter ‘A’ changes meaning as Hester evolves from the standard female. During the beginning of the novel the letter represents Hester’s sin that the town condemned her for, adultery. She did this act out of a passionate love for Dimmesdale. Even though Hester’s husband…

However, there is always the small part of the population that, for whatever reason, would put themselves through that kind of pain. At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne comes back to her Massachusetts home in the Puritan community that punished her for adultery and once more puts on the scarlet letter that marks her sin. Hester stays in Boston, the town that has been the site of her shame and her punishment not because she has any great love for it or because she…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a very grotesque story, however there is always something beautiful to come out of it to keep the reader interested throughout the book. This is a story of a woman named Hester who commits adultery and suffers, but thrives through the consequences. The storyline connects to a Puritan culture and a time of romanticism, where sins against God weren’t accepted at all. Where in today’s society, it may not be as big of a deal. The scaffold, the letter A,…