Dudley–Winthrop family

the life of the main character and his family, this novella starts by showing the readers about kino's life " the main character " before he finds the great pearl and the events leading up to the discovery of this pearl , this novella starts with the discovery of this pearl and the effects of finding this pearl on kino's life and family in general , as we begin reading this novella we can form a picture of kino's simple…

Throughout the mid-1800’s, the time period that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan society in the New England colony abided by strict codes of conduct, many of them strongly influenced by perceptions of gender roles. Here, men were perceived as authoritative figures, while women were highly condemned due to constant accusations of crimes such as witchcraft and adultery. Set in Boston during the late seventeenth century, Hawthorne’s romantic novel depicts the story of…

In the Hands of a Coward There are many situations where a person is a coward, cowardliness is a choice Some people overcome the situation and others are defined by it. Overcoming a cowardly situation means accepting and admitting flaws. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses his main characters in The Scarlet Letter to show how they failed and became cowardly. Hawthorne gave these many challenges to Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and Hester Prynne. Throughout the book The Scarlet Letter Arthur…

Universal Truths of the Human Condition The Scarlet Letter, although written in the 1850’s, continues to speak truly about many universal truths of the human condition. The Novel displays all-consuming effects of guilt on a sinner and how it can be worse than the punishment itself, although religion can guide a person, it can not guide a government, and that no person is without sin. As displayed by Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, guilt can affect a person worse than the punishment for the crime.…

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter revolves around the meaning of Hester Prynne’s punishment for her sin of adultery in a Puritan society, which was to wear the scarlet letter. In the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter, the reader is introduced to Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl. Pearl is the product of Hester’s sin of adultery. The father of Hester’s child is the well-known and extremely loved priest of their town, Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale refused…

A true contemporary of the modern era, Hester Prynne was cast into the 17th century Puritan America in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne as a foreigner of the times. Immediately speculated as an adulteress for bearing a child with no known father in the community, Hester Prynne is expelled from society. Hester, although ridiculed and alienated, emerges as the representative of the new female image. She defies the status quo as a proponent of feminism and individuality, a product of her…

patriarchal society. Hester Prynne, the Puritan adulteress shamed for her crime in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, primely exemplifies this definition. Throughout the course of the allegorical work, Hester is able to overcome the ignominy brought upon her, support a child on her own, and make a living, despite being known as the town’s adulteress. For these reasons, the Hester Prynne stood as the strongest feminist of her time, and perhaps even of today. During and after her public…

Public Humiliation Public humiliation was a acceptance with the Puritans, and how they treated people who sinned. Nathaniel Hawthorne made Hester Prynne the main character the one who committed the biggest sin of all. Adultery, and she wore A on her chest that only changed her appearance. ‘’Concerns Raised on ‘’Scarlet Letter’’ for Drunk Drivers”. By Toni Locy thinks its ok to put a letter on the driver's licence of people that drink and drive. The Scarlet Letter does not serve as a…

Themes are very apparent and are found in practically every work of literature. There are many different types of themes which are used to express what a work is about, and help the reader create a better understanding of what the story is telling. These themes are exhibited by the many different characters found in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and assist the reader into going more in depth into the personal characteristics and inner-workings of each individual character, as they…

Grandparents that contradicted what I knew as a kid. Neither my Dad nor my Grandparents were the polite and the “good Christians” I knew them to be. The more I learned about my family, the more I saw how everything they did illustrated what they perceived as socially acceptable; however, deep down they were anything but. Although my family tightly followed their religion and…