The Scarlet Letter Essay

(Thomas Fuller). Everyone has sinned in their lifetime because we are all born sinners. Although people try their best not to sin, most people fail to resist the will to sin. Sin is a transgression against divine law. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne suffered at the hands of the townsfolk, Roger Chillingworth, and the rule of the Puritan religion. As the crowd watches and waits for Hester to exit the prison door, the gossips discusses Hetser and the sin she…

wearing a scarlet letter for the rest of your life is unbearable. The scarlet letter stood for many different things like adulterer and able. These symbols are the most common things that the scarlet letter stands for because it says it in the novel. But, there are also more symbols that are not talked about in the novel. These symbols are more meaningful than the two common symbols. They show just how the scarlet letter really is now just what it means. These three meaningful symbols of the…

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the book , The Scarlet Letter, with certain themes in mind, such as, guilt, shame, and redemption. These themes are clearly seen throughout the book and their presents help the readers understand the overarching meaning and moral message of the book that was intended by Hawthorne. One of the most dominant themes is guilt and the way guilt affects specific characters within The Scarlet Letter. The reader can especially see that guilt affects Hester and Dimmesdale. To go…

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…

In reading ‘The Scarlet Letter’ Hawthorne’s novel can be found to be psychologically cohesive based on its characters. Though many characters in Hawthorne’s story exemplify this, no one other than Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and the young Pearl express this trait more. Throughout the story, the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne plagues Arthur Dimmesdale, but this plague is not of his body. No, it is of his mind and soul, hence the psychology. Likewise, Chillingworth also…

After committing adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter to show the crime she committed. Hester and the minister committed adultery and for this Pearl will never know her father and they will live their lives in loneliness. Growing up as a Puritan that was all Hester knew of, but after committing her sin she embraces who she has become. Hester Prynne represents transcendentalism for the way she embraces the scarlet letter and must be self-reliant to help support herself and…

The Scarlet Letter Draft “All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity”-James Fenimore Cooper. Throughout the Romantic novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne establishes the idea individuality and conformity and how it defines one’s identity. By utilizing a cast of characters such as the young adultress, Hester Prynne and her secret…

They are forgiven Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter hoping he had shown forgiveness for his father's mistakes. He wanted to make statements for example, “Be True” and “Everyone is Forgiven”. In the story Hawthorne had it seem as if everyone had shown forgiveness. When he wrote the characters that had died he wrote about the good things that they did or the good things that happened to them before they died. The characters that lived went on to live happy successful lives. Hawthorne had…

introduction 1 “The Scarlet Letter” is a historically based novel published in 1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2 The story is set in 17th-century Boston, a town heavily reliant upon Puritan doctrine and belief. 3 The year is 1642. Hester Prynne, a young spouse whose husband has been missing for more than a year, is convicted of adultery following the birth of her newborn daughter Pearl. As part of her punishment, Prynne is forced to wear a red patch of the letter A.…

The Scarlet letter was one of the most recognizable uses of symbolism in a novel over the last two centuries. The letter “A” has been given more than one meaning in the book. As a reader delves deeper into the book, “adultery, angel, and able” are all the symbols of “A” that the people associate the scarlet letter with. The main character Hester Prynne, a Puritan, married woman, commits adultery with a very ironic figure, a pastor. He goes by Dimmesdale, and in the act Hester gets pregnant.…