Harvest of Shame

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, is a story about sin and redemption, the light and darkness of these areas, and the appearance of to what something means and what significance it carries with it. The Scarlet Letter, takes place within a puritan community in Massachusetts during the Seventeenth century. Where a young woman moves into this community and waits for 2 years for her husband to return, while her husband is away she has an affair with the reverend Dimmesdale. The young woman…

Prynne who is being punished in front of her entire Puritan community in Massachusetts Bay Colony for committing adultery with a town minister. Because of her sins committed, she is now sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom to mark her shame because of her choice to have a love affair with a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout the whole story, Hester can be seen as a strong woman who not only wants to stand up to Puritan beliefs, but she wants to stand up for her rights as…

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing in order to broadcast to the community that she has sinned. Throughout the novel the letter’s meaning begins to change. While it originally stood for “Adulterer”, it has begun to stand for “Able” instead, due to Hester’s acceptance of her sin and talent in embroidery. In the beginning of the novel after Hester is convicted and forced to wear the “A”, she is entirely shunned and scorned…

in The Scarlet Letter gives key insights to idea that shame varies from individual to individual, and from society to society. Like Dimmesdale, she experiences a deep shame for her previous actions. Unlike Dimmesdale however, she is punished for her crime and is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet ‘A’, as a token of her shame, “the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his heart” (Hawthorne 122). From here, her experience with shame diverges from that of Dimmesdale. While the…

The scarlet letter is a constant reminder of the public shame she must feel and the evil deed she has committed. Her scarlet letter represents sin, her sin. Hester is affected negatively by the punishment. When she goes out in public, her letter reminds everyone of what she has done and discourages others from committing the same sin, “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne adulteress Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet ‘’A’’ to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is filled with gilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth seeks revenge. Even though Hester ends the story as a heroine,she plays a victim throughout via extreme societal judgement. After all, she is forced to wear the scarlet ‘’A’’ Hester wears it on her chest with her head held high on the scaffold. As she walks through the…

What is The Scarlet Letter about? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel about a woman named Hester Prynne who committed the sin of adultery and was sent to prison for it. She was required to wear an embroidered “A”, standing for adultery, on all of her clothes so people would know what she had done. When she had the baby, it was named Pearl. She was forced into standing on a scaffold with her baby as a public humiliation. While she being publicly humiliated, her husband, Roger…

The concept of face and how it relates to conflict can be complicated. However, understanding and evaluating the role that face plays in a conflict can help those involved understand the actions of the others involved and possibly hold a key toward resolving the conflict. In the Conflict and a R&D Organization case, saving face plays a prominent role in the conflict between Glenn and Greg (Conflict in an R&D, n.d.). Glenn and Greg both are concerned with face loss, this concern contributes to…

because he posted an inappropriate picture on Facebook. A teenager is being bullied and called names because of a comment she posted on her friend’s Twitter. Hence, public shaming has been around since the 1620s, where people started with bringing shame on to those who committed a sin. This practice is demonstrated through The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this book, Hester Prynne, of Puritan Boston, is shamed because she committed the sin of adultery. As a consequence, she is forced…

sin. Pearl “winked and turned aside her little face from the vivid light of day” because she was the product of sin and not virtue (45). Lastly light and dark are symbolic of freedom and the constraints of shame. While in the forest the light will not shine on Hester because of the shame she has placed on herself, not the actual sin. Once she takes the scarlet letter off, the sun shines on her because she is now free. Similarly, the sun shines on Dimmesdale when he confesses his sins and…