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When someone thinks of a good role model they think of a person that has great success and can be emulated. However that is not always true, Nathaniel Hawthorne views a role model in a different aspect. In The Scarlet Letter there was a lot of hate and suffering in the community of Boston. Throughout Hester’s life she has changed dramatically, coming from insults and insecurities she has become a great role model. From being a heinous adulterer to a very wise women she has changed the views of…

Is Miss. Strangeworth Evil? Throughout the story, Miss. Strangeworth has showed a bunch of innocence over the course of the story. Near the end, she has been proved to evil in every possible way for writing harsh letters to innocent people. But it turns out that Miss. Strangeworth is both evil and unevil. Miss Strangeworth is a 71-year-old lady who was one of the first individuals on Pleasant Street. She believes that she is a huge part of the town and is to keep the town in order and writes…

The Not so Puritans Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne presents his negative attitudes towards Puritans and their views. In the first chapter, Hawthorne describes the Puritans in a dark and gloomy light and projected civilization, in general, in a dark manner by referring to the prison as a “black flower” (Hawthorne, 477). Hawthorne projected his negative attitudes by assembling situations, in which the reactions and actions taken by the Puritans portray them as judgmental,…

Gothic literature has been known for its basis of sin and evil. By vaguely evaluating the two novel-based stories, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Moby Dick by Herman Melville, one may seem to find similarities between the two. The Scarlet Letter is about a young, married woman named Hester Prynne, who becomes pregnant and has a child by another man out of wedlock; she is then forced to live with her shame and wear the letter “A” on her bosom to symbolize “adultery.” After her…

In the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathon Edwards incorporates personification, analogy, and repetition to persuade the listeners to repent for their sins they committed against God. Edwards includes personification in his sermon to better convince the listeners to repent for their actions. Edwards states that the arrow of justice is a "moment from being drunk from [their] blood." Because people enjoy drinking to the point of being drunk , Edwards is suggestion that the…

Backbiting is one of greatest sins you can commit in any religion. Backbiting is a sin every human begins commits. There are many different punishments for backbiting in the many different religions. In Islam backbiting is a major sin and the punishment for it is hell fire. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne you can also see how the Puritan society deals with backbiting. The puritan society believes that must not judge of the action by the person but of the person by the action. Islam…

The Scarlet Letter is a historical fiction novel originally published in 1850 by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. Written by Nathanial Hawthorne.(http://www.bartleby.com/br/83.html) The novel gives an inside look at the puritan religious structure and the impact of their belief. The setting of the narrative is taken in Boston, Massachusets in the middle of the seventeenth century. The narrator analyzes each character by telling their stories and introducing them to the reader. Yet, never introducing…

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is a charismatic, independent and a lovely woman who in the article, When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision by Adrienne Rich is “threatened with loss of beauty, the loss of youth” due to the Puritan laws of Adultery. Adrienne Rich points out in the article, When We Dead Awaken: Writing as a Re-Vision that women are a luxury. In the scarlet letter, Hawthorne describes Hester as a luxury when Hawthorne says, “The young woman…

In the seventeenth century, the Puritans grew discontent in the Church of England, for which their own ideals opposed those of the church. The Puritans created a rigid structure that possessed patriarchal principles and suppressed the majority of the society’s individualism. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hester, similar to the Puritans with England, refuses to comply with society’s religious ruling. Through the use of metaphorical imagery and juxtaposition Hawthorne…

Mitchell Shaw Mrs. Way Eng III Dec, 7, 2017 Mitchell Cannon Shaw’s essay over “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 I. Intro Intro Intro Intro Intro In the novel the scarlet letter the letters meaning changed from adultery to ability to an angel to living persona of pearl II. Body 1 In the beginning the scarlet letter was supposed to mean Hester has committed adultery. Society had set religious standards that did not go with her true feelings at heart. "If thou feelest it to be for…