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    #2 Characterization Paper In the book The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are many ways that the author depicts the characters individually. Each persona of the novel has specific and special characteristics that explain their part in the book. Many of these are important traits that reflect upon themselves, leading towards different events in The Scarlet Letter, consequently taking us to the climax of the book. The nature of these characters is: Hester Prynne is a sign of…

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    The Scarlet Letter is a tale the exemplifies and expounds Romanticism in the faculty of mankind and the natural world have a relation. Also, God has been placed back into the specific nature. Hester Prynne, a young women, is marked with the absurd symbol of the Scarlet Letter, in which the community she lived within in Boston condemned her with, exhibiting her wrong doing. The Scarlet Letter was an “A” for the “adulterer” which she worn upon her bosom. Arthur Dimmesdale, the man who helped…

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    Scarlet Letter Reflection

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    The Scarlet Letter a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the nineteen centuries the age of reason, while written about the seventeen centuries. Nathaniel Hawthorne used his perception of the age of reasoning to give his audience a new view of the seventeen centuries. Nonetheless during that time the settlers wanted to be pure under the eye of God they also wanted to have all sorts of benefits. That is not only in the novel like that but it is also implemented in the actual time period.…

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    Hypocrisy Scarlet Letter

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    The scarlet letter took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the seventeenth century. There are many themes and ideas in The Scarlet Letter, they were based on the beliefs of the puritans during that time. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the ideas of how society was being hypocritical and punishing others for their own pleasure throughout the book to show how the people in society treated Hester prynne based on the sin that she commited and pearl based on her parent's actions. The author exposes…

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    In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the letter “A” as a powerful symbol to identify the central character, Hester Prynne. It is also the title of the novel. Hester is obligated to wear the letter as a symbol of her adulterous affair with Dimmesdale, a minister of the church. They both reside in the puritan community and are compelled to practice the Puritan moral code which torments them daily. Hester walks out of the prison door carrying baby Pearl towards the scaffold…

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    The Letter “A” At the start of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, the “A” acted as a symbol for Hester’s sin of adultery. In fact, her Puritan community punished her by forcing her to don a scarlet letter “A” upon her chest. Wearing this letter labelled her as a fallen woman. This caused her to stand out in such a way that numerous community members looked down at her and judged her for her sin. However, as time elapsed, the community gradually saw Hester for her contributions to…

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    about in “The Scarlet Letter”. ‘The Scarlet Letter” is a romance from the time period of the 1850s, before the salem witch trial occurred. The book was written by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote the book in 1996 and the book is considered to be his “master piece” or “masterwork”. She had to wear the letter A for “adultery”. She had a child out of marriage. The town wants to know who the father is, but she won’t say. There are many letters I can pick out from, so any letter can…

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    novels to convey a certain purpose and to form the theme. Within the novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne must model a scarlet red A on her bust or, in other words, breast. This A means many things throughout the book. Hester Prynne has committed a crime in which her village has strongly been disgusted by. Her punishment affects the entire village in many different ways. The way her child, Pearl, had viewed the letter on Hester’s bosom was definitely not the same of how the villagers saw it.…

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    The Scarlet Letter, from townspeople, the Reverend, and a physician. One of the main characters is the infant that was born due to sin. Her name was Pearl; her mother chose that name because she felt she that Pearl was truly the greatest gift, for she took everything away from her mother and was all that she had. Throughout the novel, the reader can see Pearl grow up and see things that Pearl finds an interest in. Three things that can be associated with Pearl are pearls, the scarlet letter “A”…

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    Sin In Scarlet Letter

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    Every single sin that has ever been brought to action must eventually be brought to light. Hester Prynne, Robert Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale can all testify to this statement. These characters from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, The Scarlet Letter, have each sinned in ways that directly reflect back into their actions, transforming their worlds based on the nature of their sin. To start off, there is Hester whose sin was revealed, taking away any guilt that she held because everyone was…

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