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Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlett Letter illustrates his expertise of style in his portrayal of a sanctimonious period of American history in the mid-seventeenth century. Taking place in a strict Puritan colony in New England, Hawthorne displays the brutal, unforgiving, and ultimately fatal impact a single indiscretion has on three characters in the colony: Hester Prynne, Reverend Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses powerful symbols and motifs to…

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is publicly put to shame for committing adultery. Other than being isolated from the town, she is given the letter ‘A’ to wear permanently. As the novel continues, Hawthorn highlights her strong characteristics as she manages being a sinner. John Updike established the character of Hester as a “mythic version of every woman’s attempt to integrate her sexuality with societal demands.” It can be concluded that Updike intended to say that…

who was condemn for adultery, both were women who committed the crime of extracurricular relations. “’I killed my daughter because she insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it.’ Police investigator Rana Majahid quoted him as saying.” (“Pregnant Pakistan Woman Stoned to Death by Her Family” 1) The male relatives of Farzana Parveen, the murder victim, deny any guilt associated with the “honor killing”. Similar to The Scarlet Letter, the women…

The forest in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathanial Hawthorn is a recurring metaphor in the novel. Gossip and shame encircled the forest, causing a skewed view of this isolated location within the Puritan community. However, Hawthorne dubs the forest as a place of freedom, joy, and truth to those with secrets. Boston’s Puritan society of the mid 1600’s feared the near-by forest. Believing that “the black man that haunts the forest” (Hawthorn 71). The forest symbolized many things about…

In the book of Ezekiel, God tells Israel that He will replace their hearts of stone with living ones. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne’s living heart turns to stone under the judgment imposed upon her by the magistrates. Distancing herself the letter she must bear upon her chest, she allows her guilt to be nearly as removable as the mark upon her breast. Her illicit lover, Dimmesdale, lacks any such option, with the letter stitched on his skin, close to his living…

Have you ever read “The Ministers Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne? There is a debate about whether the minister has a secret sin or not. The minister is hiding a secret sin he had an affair with the maiden that died and her killed her to keep her quite about their love affair and to keep his wife Elizabeth happy. In this essay I will give examples to support my claim of the book. To begin, in “The Ministers Black” by Nathaniel Hawthorne the minister was hiding the fact that he was having an…

#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…

In this quote, Claudia sums up the city-wide treatment given to Pecola. It shows how the people of Lorain, Ohio have used pecola and her family as an emotional landfill. In the quote it states, “all of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed”, they took all their insecurities and negative feelings about themselves onto this little girl. They used her as a dumpster where they put all their ugliness and sadness in because she was a convenient scapegoat. However, in this part of the…

“Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character”(Unknown). In the novel The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, portrays Hester Prynne, the protagonist, as a strong character through the public eye of humiliation, disobeying the Puritan society, and the situation with her lover and her husband, from the sin of adultery she has committed, but is still able overcome to live her life as ordinary as possible. In the opening of the…

I think that the character, Hester, in the scarlet letter, will be Forgiven as long as she wants to. I think this because she believed that God punished you for your sins, but then, when someone had a new theory that God can forgive you, then beliefs started to change. It was just a common belief for the puritans that God punished sinners and that you could become a sinner from being born. In the story Hester said “thou shalt forgive me”. This means that Hester believes that God will forgive her…