Drapier's Letters

society 's morals, values, standards, rules, customs or behaviour and as a result they are met with contempt and condemnation, which can gravely injure one’s reputation or social standing. Both The Scarlet Letter and Far from Heaven show this prejudice and treatment of the ‘outsider’. The Scarlet Letter is set in the 1600’s Puritan society which bases its laws and society values on their religion. Everything about this society is based on the strict religious standard and if not this standard is…

transgressions are something more than just keeping things hush-hush. This is the fear of allowing the truth to set you free. Nathaniel Hawthorne discerned this verity in his book The Scarlet Letter, noting man 's want to be seen as upright yet, holding sin within his being. In the passages of The Scarlet Letter, a woman called Hester and…

The Scarlet Letter provides a thought provoking insight into the world of the Puritans back during the 17th century. The novel emphasizes the importance of original sin and the presence of evil in the lives of the Puritans, especially the three main characters. Hester Prynne can be described as a strong-willed, independent woman who is put to shame due to her sinful actions with the town 's minister. Arthur Dimmesdale is the town 's minister who preaches about purity and distinguishing all evil…

they “center”, and find clarity, peace and serenity. Even if they do, they still miss the instances of pure bliss. Human experience helps us grow and prosper, sometimes it passes on to others, like in The Scarlet Letter. The inauspicious characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter, portrays the hypocrisy of the aspects of American culture. Through the image of Hester Prynne, her daughter is the product of her sin, but also her most valuable possession. A mother is considered, in…

The poem by Margret Atwood, “Marrying the Hangman” exemplifies the conception of humiliation, commendably sanctioning the metamorphosing societal values. Effectively perceiving the perception of deception and guilt. Marrying the Hangman is fused by history which in turn invoked the official, written history of a woman who escaped sentence of death by convincing a condemned man to accept the position of hangman and to marry her, and the oral history of a violent encounter, shared among other…

In The Scarlet Letter, author Nathaniel Hawthorne includes Hester Prynne 's view in terms of the unfair position of women in society. Hawthorne conveys Hester 's thinking about the subservient role women play, and how this is a fundamental aspect of the society they live in, however unfair it may be; the only way to change this idea would be to build society anew and change the very hereditary nature of not just men, but women as well. Hawthorne shows how Hester 's speculative tone comes as a…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, signs of guilt, shame, sin, and redemption occur many times, but especially through the symbols of roses and rosebushes. Hester Prynne, the main sinner, is represented by these roses bushes when she walks out of the jail and a rosebush is flourishing. Through the novel Pearl and Hester are both referred to as “a wild rose-bush” at some point (Hawthorne 46). Unlike her mother, Pearl is not a sinner, but merely a symbol of Hester’s sin. Pearl also is…

passionately and adamantly tell you that Nathaniel Hawthorne has a God given talent of prolonging a story that could be told in five chapters or less. In reading The Scarlet Letter I have developed grey hair, a dislike for words such as ignominy and sagacious and intense abdominal pain. On the other hand, The Scarlet Letter didn’t totally set me off of literature written before the 1900’s; I’ll give it another try in 40 years or so. Yet, on a serious note Nathaniel Hawthorne was able to create…

Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites sees Agnes Magnúsdóttir condemned by her community for murder. As an educated, but socially lower-caste woman, Agnes is unable to escape her fate once the community view her as undeniably guilty. This inability to escape her fate, leads readers such as myself to consider the extent of which the stereotyping associated with gender is influential in determining one’s fate. However, it appears there is also the possibility of the individual changing their fate through…

What is life without risk? The two books The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, are both set during Puritan time establishments. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller do a remarkable job of illustrating what the typical Puritan society is like. In the two pieces, risk is a common theme in order to illustrate how Puritan society dealt with matters in contradiction to the religion. In the Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays Hester Prynne very early in the novel as “. . . perfect elegance…