Badge of shame

adultery, but because her husband was presumed dead she was spared and forced to wear a letter "A" on her chest. The letter itself is a symbol of sin that she has to deal with her whole life. A goodwife in the crowd stated, "This women has brought shame to us all, and ought to die" (49.) This shows how Puritan society views sin as the ultimate…

In Nathanial Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is wracked with guilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge. Hester Prynne is forced to suffer under the staring of the townspeople because of the scarlet letter that she wears upon her breast. Hester committed a sin, that in those times, were unforgivable and her punishment was to be known for what she did and to be…

Started From the Bottom Now We Here: The Story of Hester Prynne After reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter,” I have come to the conclusion that Hester Prynne had the most positive moral development of the characters in the book. In the Scarlet Letter, a Hester Prynne is sent overseas to the new colonies by her husband. However, she traveled there alone, which led to her adultery sentence, which is why she is required by law to wear the scarlet letter A for the rest of her…

Hutchinson lived in, faith was also a strict enforcer of the law. Similarities can be made between faith and the strict laws in which it enforces in the Scarlet letter. Adultery is a sin in Puritanism and in Hester Prynne’s society that sin is heavily enforced and frowned upon. Faith in this instance is strict due to the heavy enforcement of the sin. “Thus the young and pure and would be taught to look at her, with the Scarlet Letter flaming on her breast….as the figure, the reality of sin. And…

Imagine losing the respect of your entire community including friends and family, all because of letter embroidered on the bosom of your clothes. Often times in puritan society adultery was punishable by death; however, in Hester Prynn’s case, her husband was allegedly dead from travel to New England, so she was required to wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ as punishment for her sin. Not only is the scarlet letter punishment of her sin, her daughter Pearl becomes the living embodiment of the scarlet…

The book the “Scarlet letter” is a story of two lovers stuck in turmoil, over a crime that was an accident. Hawthorn takes us on a journey about Hester, Dimmesdale, and the Scarlet letter. This paper will talk about why Hester is innocent. First, I will talk about the scarlet letter. The Scarlet letter is the letter A that is put on Hester’s bosom. The letter stands for Adultery. Adultery is committed when a person that is married, has sex with a person who isn’t there husband or wife. Partake…

own pride, envy, greed, wrath, lust and jealousy lead him to sin against King Duncan. I love Othello and Macbeth because I was able to analyze them during my high school year. I wish I had read Scarlet Letter when I was in high school. It is such a shame that I did not look into it. The novel Scarlet Letter is mainly about sin, adultery, guilt, deception, revenge and courage. After reading the Scarlet letter, I can say that the author beautifully wrote it. Moreover, I started to ponder this…

The justification behind the concept of punishment takes many different forms. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the primary rationale behind the Puritans’ punishment of Hester Prynne, the accused adulteress, is retributive, in proportional to the nature of the transgression. The Puritans intend their punishment of ostracism and forced visibility of the letter “A” to match Hester’s crime of adultery by shaming her with a sense of damnation. However, ironically this punishment brings an…

I will be writing about feminism. I’m going to explain what feminism is, how it relates to The Scarlet Letter, why it is important, Hawthorne’s view of women in the book, whether or not Hawthorne portrays women accurately, and will be providing specific examples from the book to support my analysis. Women have been discriminated against from the very beginning in my beliefs. It started out with Adam and Eve; Eve took the first bite of the apple not Adam. Now I’m not saying God is feminist but…

Nathaniel Hawthorne in his gothic romance novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850), depicts the life and the hypocrisy of the Puritan communities in the colonial days. In the novel, protagonist Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A on her bosom to mark the guilt adulterous sin she committed with Arthur Dimmesdale, a Puritan minister, while her thought-to-be long gone husband, Roger Chillingworth, is on the hunt to seek revenge. Hawthorne’s use of dramatic irony builds suspense and tension as he divulges…