The Scarlet Letter Essay

shows the difference between romantics and idealist by showing that not much has changed over the years. Hawthorne explains the idea of romanticism through nature for it reveals the truth and it’s where everyones identities are revealed. In The Scarlet Letter, nature is used to portray the characters…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a confusing and interesting book. At times it can have its good moments where it drags you in, but there are other times when you do not understand what is happening because of the old English. Overall this book is a good read, if you read it until the end. This book can be looked at as having many themes: Revenge, Guilt, Forgiveness, Justice, Nature and Hypocrisy, but the two main themes that I will be writing about are Justice and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter explores the nature of sin and redemption, especially through the character of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a beloved young minister in the seventeenth-century Puritan town of Boston. Contrary to his moral standing as a religious leader, Dimmesdale has secretly committed adultery with Hester Prynne, a young married woman who has come to Boston ahead of her husband. When she becomes pregnant, the Puritan officials discover her infidelity and brand her…

Hester about how miserable he’s been for the last 7 years and he goes as far as to say that he envies her public shame and wishes he had just one friend who recognized him for who he really was (Pimple, 266). “ Happy are you Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon you bosom! Mine burns in secret! ...Had I one friend, -or were it my worst enemy! ...I could daily betake my self.” (Hawthorne, 171). Several times throughout the conversation, in the forest Dimmesdale displays his weakness…

“I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.” Actor Benedict Cumberbatch states, humanity will influence one to empathize with the character no matter what. Writers, through direct and indirect presentation, can provoke empathy for a character who was thought to be black-hearted. With direct presentation, the reader explicitly receives presented information about a character…

The Scarlet Letter expands the division between what is publicly acceptable and one’s personal thoughts and feelings. Hawthorne uses themes of sin, guilt, punishment evoke the reader’s morals and emotions. Often subsequently after sin, guilt is a familiar counterpart. Guilt by definition is the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime. Societies’ morals, affiliate sin with and aftereffect of punishment, this punishment is to teach and reinforces that the behavior is wrong…

The question of whether Hester Prynne’s character develops over the course of The Scarlet Letter is debatable. To the Puritans living in her community, Hester drastically changes from a sinful adulteress to a charitable and selfless seamstress. True to their cold and unforgiving nature, the Puritans disregard Hester’s emotional development and focus on the technical, concrete aspects of her transformation instead. The shallow Puritans see her as they want to see her without making an effort to…

This conviction unveils her belief that if she runs away from her problems, it would only declare society’s power over her. The second imperative moment is when Roger Chillingworth informs her that the town fathers are considered to have her scarlet letter removed. Hester reacts with dismay, and is worried about losing her identity. There have been brief periods of time in my life where I have lost my identity. I have felt such shame and guilt about some of the choices I have made. I have had…

The Scarlet letter Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, the Scarlet Letter, conveys the theme that as people actions change so does others perspective of them, the character Hester’s scarlet letter “A” doesn’t just stand as a symbol by itself but as a symbol of Hester’s identity; as her actions change so does the towns thought on the scarlet letter as they do not recognize her scarlet letter as a sign of sin and adultery, but as a symbol of being able. What was meant to shame and disown Hester in…

call it stubborn, but, at the end of the day, the human spirit is always there to guide people through their troubles. Two distinguished examples of the fortitude of the human soul appear in the movie Good Night and Good Luck and the novel The Scarlet Letter; the characters Hester Prynne and Edward Murrow…