The Scarlet Letter Essay

The Symbols of a lifetime Symbols are used around us rather it be the business logos or colors. Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter there are many symbols. The three that the reader will be informed about will be Pearl the product of the sin between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, the scarlet letter “A”, the sign for adultery, and Roger Chillingworth, a doctor bent on revenge. Pearl is the illegitimate daughter of Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne who was conceived…

The three works by Nathaniel Hawthorne all have overlapping themes, characters, settings, symbols, and plots. To begin, the major theme behind the stories is sin. This is evident in The Scarlet Letter through Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne's adultery. In "The Minister's Black Veil" by the minister hiding his face to represent that the entire world in hiding behind their own black veils, or sins. In "Young Goodman Brown", does not trust anyone because of their hiding sins. Sin overwhelms…

the Puritans were about their religion. The Scarlet Letter- The scarlet letter promotes the impure act of adultery. The red stands as a symbol of sin and evil. It could also mean that Hester can burn in hell for her impurity. The Scarlet Letter- In chapter 13, the scarlet letter is not really mentioned so much as a symbol of impurity, but as a symbol of her calling. With all of her charity work, people began to ignore the origin of the scarlet A, but beginning to call it a sign of Abel.…

Devices of The Scarlet Letter Guilt is a feeling with which many people are familiar. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a woman named Hester Prynne is condemned by her entire village after committing adultery and having a child. Her punishment is that for the rest of her life, she has no choice but to wear a red letter “A” embroidered into her shirt to ensure that she feels the shame of her infraction every day. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the symbolism of the scarlet letter, internal…

Throughout all of American Literature, authors have used different techniques to relay a message to the reader, one way being by depicting how the community’s influence on the protagonist shapes the protagonists’ development. In The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, authors Hawthorne and Miller, respectively, use the social norms in Puritan society to express a common theme by portraying the positive and negative moral changes in characters. In Puritan society, individuals believed they were…

things. In The Scarlet Letter Pearl is curious about nearly everything, but, especially the letter “A” on her mother’s chest. While it is human nature to be curious, Pearl’s curiosity is extremely apparent in recent chapters, it is similar to the curiosity children have today, and it is Hester’s job to control this issue. The following essay will delve into the life of Pearl and her obsession with curiosity. We already know that Pearl demonstrates lots of curiosity towards the scarlet letter…

The introduction of The Scarlet Letter, titled ‘The Custom House’ is seen as somewhat irrelevant to the story of Hester Prynne by many. They usually end up feeling it was unnecessary to have it as an introduction, and skip the reading of it. In Hsiou-ling Lyu’s case, it is greatly relevant to The Scarlet Letter as it does not tell us a lot about the story itself, but about the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his decision to write The Scarlet Letter. Lyu starts out her essay by stating that…

While reading The Scarlet Letter, I was introduced to many characters such as Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl Prynne. Of all the main characters in the story, the person I most empathize with is Pearl. Even though Pearl is a little girl, I can understand, in a way, what she is going through. Throughout the beginning of the story, she has no idea who her father is. While I have known my father for my whole life i have known of people who have never met…

The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, depicts a woman’s opposition to strict Puritan society in the 1700’s. Nathaniel Hawthorne shares a story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ostracizing Hester Prynne. According to the laws of the church, adultery calls for severe punishment. Therefore, the Puritan society bestows harsh punishment unto Prynne after she commits adultery with an unknown man. Hawthorne’s choice of words indicates his disagreement with the Puritan society’s verdict of Hester…

Especially the significance of the Scarlet “A”. In this second scaffold scene the “A” is more prominent than ever increasing its reign and pain of suffering greatly as compared to the first scaffold scene. In this scene Dimmesdale initiates the scene by ascending onto the scaffold willingly…