Drapier's Letters

Seventeenth century, romance, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne enhances the meaning and importance of the letter A through the main character and protagonist, Hester Prynne, who has committed the sinful act of adultery. As her punishment she is to wear the scarlet letter A imprinted on her so all will know of her wrong doing. As Hester begins to embrace the permanent embellishment of herself, she begins to alter the meaning of the letter into a more promising and encouraging meaning…

The novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells of an adulteress named Hester Prynne in the New England Puritan society. This adulteress gives birth to a daughter, Pearl Prynne, while accompanied by her partner in adultery, Reverend Dimmesdale, and her lost husband Roger Chillingworth in this highly offensive and judgmental society. Each of these main characters changes through each of the scaffold scenes which signifies a place of hiding and releasing secrets and confessions…

write or say one statement while implying a completely separate opinion rather easily. This theory is prevalent among the great authors of our time, but none so much as Nathaniel Hawthorne. For example, throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne’s varying usage of enticing imagery and marvelous diction reflect how the Puritans feel about Hester, as a result implying how his opinions of the group. Within the novel, Hawthorne shows the Puritans as pertaining from one violent…

laughter” (Hawthorne 101). The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the article “Concerns Raised on ‘Scarlet Letter’ for Drunk Drivers,” by Toni Locy, both provided very different examples of public shaming. Both show the pros and cons of shaming by either telling a story or explaining people’s opinions. The Scarlet Letter provides a historic view on shaming during the Puritan times. A woman named Hester is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter to show that she has sinned. She is…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter is set in a time when colonists were trying to create a better society than they were previously used to. Early Puritan towns set out to do just that; create a utopian society where puritan morals were followed very strictly. Hawthorne’s anti-transcendentalist views give a clear focus on the communities’ strict views that show no regard for the individuals in society, but only for the conformity needed to repress any sinful lures that may tarnish the…

Scarlet Letter, which focuses on Hester Prynne, a woman ostracized from society for adultery, Hawthorne depicts 17th century Boston and the way women were treated at that time. Furthermore, from his depiction, one may notice a feminist foundation upon which he wrote the book. Hawthorne’s representation of the women in the 17th century, the women’s rights movement in the 19th century, and the women in his own life play a significant role in the feminist portrayals of women in The Scarlet Letter.…

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne gives readers a taste of what life was like in a society controlled by Puritans. It is a miserable life, as Hawthorne shows readers through the degradation of Hester Prynne, the adulterous protagonist, who has to bear being isolated from society. In the sidelines, there is Reverend Dimmesdale, who is tortured internally by his secret “sin” of having an affair with Prynne. And while all of this is going on, Roger Chillingworth, Prynne’s revenge-ridden…

thread, appeared the letter A" ( Hawthorne 45). In the book, The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is a woman convicted of adultery and who must wear the letter A upon her chest for her sin. The reader may assume that Hester is a coward who refuses to show her face in town after this incident but instead, Hester is a strong leader because of her ability to be honest about her sin through the symbol of the scarlet letter. Because of her ability to show her sin through scarlet letter that she must…

romantic encounter with Ms. Hester Prynne. Dimmesdale eventually becomes physically and mentally sick from his shame and guilt. This essay will use a combination of psychoanalytical and ecocritical lenses to analyze Dimmesdale’s sickness in The Scarlet Letter, leading up to his death. In the beginning of Dimmesdale’s sickness, the reverend is seen constantly holding his hand on his chest, which eventually causes Pearl to connect his chest grasping to Hester’s “A” (Hawthorne,…

always two folds to a situation. The Scarlet Letter, a classic American novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that was published in 1850, explores this idea of duality. It is a culmination of the experiences of Hawthorne's life, who grew up in a household steadfast to the Puritan predominant beliefs of being sinless, pure and divine; although fallacious, these were the underpinnings of the Puritan society back in the 16th and 17th centuries. In The Scarlet Letter, we delve into the world of Hester Prynne…