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allowing their sin to be remain hidden will result with an escape of conciqence. Ironically, confession will have less of a negitive effect as it allows forgivness to enter the situation and remove the guilt. This emotion is very common In The Scarlet Letter as Nathaniel Hawthorne uses three characters who struggle with their sin either publically or privitely.…

literally the churches dirty laundry, providing a comical outlook on an extremely relevant moment. This event also comes at a crucial time in the play, because the reader soon finds out that Sister Virginia has secretly written, sealed and sent a letter to the bishop in the hopes of changing things at the laundry, even going so far as asking him to delay his trip to Rome. Correspondingly this threat of exposure to even a small portion of the outside world justifies the head being screwed on to…

Many humans today are afraid of revealing what they truly love, simply because the fear of exclusion. However, their passion and desire can be flawed, which increases the risk of sin and hate to the community. The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an excellent demonstration of how human nature will give into temptations due to their passion. This is expressed by the three main characters in the novel, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. These characters…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter focuses on an adulteress, Hester Prynne, depicting strict Puritan values and overall judgment from society. Hester’s daughter, Pearl, is conceived during Hester’s affair with the respected Puritan minister Arthur Dimmesdale. Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, returns to New England while Hester is being publicly shamed on the scaffold. After discovering his past intimate relationship with Hester, he torments Dimmesdale as his revenge for the…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Puritan society and its doctrine have dictated the people’s lives and makes their devotion to God to cause them to see the worse of its people. Hester Prynne, the main character, has her reputation ruined by committing adultery which causes the Puritan society to punish and continuously judge her. In addition, the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, is stuck between confessing to his sin of adultery or keeping it a secret which causes him to…

these sins are left to settle in the soul of the sinner. These sins simmer in the soul, begging the mind and heart to concede them and confess them to the world. This aspect of the soul is portrayed through Arthur Dimmesdale in the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Arthur Dimmesdale is the minister of a quaint little town in Salem, Massachusetts, who appears innocent and almighty, but secretly holds a heavy weight in his heart.…

1. The sin Hester Prynne commits is adultery, one of the gravest sins a person could commit in the 17th century puritan society of New England. Hester’s immediate punishment is that she has to wear the scarlet letter, and face the social ridicule that comes with it. Hester will never be able to blend in with the society around her, and instead be required to bear the consequences of her sin at all times. Hester, being cut off from mainstream society moves in to a small cottage outside of…

Don’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover In the novel, The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a process of how Hester’s letter A went from being adulterous to able to angel. Hester use to be seen as A sinner but as time went by Hester went through a Process that made her a better person. She helped others and was better off than if she had not confessed her sin. In the end The “A” became something more to others than just a symbol showing that she had committed a great sin.…

happened, shown in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. But it has not. Today is almost as it was nearly 400 years ago, with the same judgment and hypocrisy passed on people who may have “sinned” or have not held to other people’s standards, which those people may not even keep themselves. The puritan religion was ideally about being as pure as one could be. But in almost all parts of their society, there were examples of this hypocrisy such as in the Scarlet Letter, with Hester. Hester…

In Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter’, nature is presented as a sympathetic and forgiving force that is in direct contrast with the stringent Puritanical society and authoritative figures which are representative of civilisation in the novel. Some characters in the novel align themselves with nature, such as Hester and Pearl, whilst the majority of the townspeople vehemently avoid places such as the forest and seem to even live in fear of it. The former characters – Hester especially – are more…