John Winthrop

Avni Trasi 26 January 2017 Glynn English 11H The Significance of the Scaffold In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the scaffold serves as an integral part of the story. Every significant scene in the book occurs on the scaffold. It helps express the most important themes of the story. Throughout the book Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl all go through transformations and the scaffold appears periodically, acting as a constant. In Puritan society, a scaffold is used as a…

Significance of Title: The title of this novel signifies the main character’s (Hester) crime, sin, and representation in her town. The Scarlet Letter “A” embodied in threads of gold is to be worn on her chest as a public acknowledgment of her adultery, which make the letter attract even more attention. As a result, Hester experience disrespect, hardship, and an outcast from the public. Another significance of the scarlet letter is Dimmesdale, whose the father of Hester’s daughter, Pearl…

Love is a complicated aspect of the human condition. It makes us do things for other people that we may not have done if love was not binding us together. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne takes on public humiliation for her lover’s sake, so that he may resist public ridicule, all the while displaying her feelings for him and their daughter, Pearl. This novel takes place in New England during Colonial America. At this time, adultery and extramarital affairs were…

Converse to the busy cover of option #1, option #2 has little happening, but each figure has a discrete meaning pertaining to the themes of “The Scarlet Letter”. The foremost pronounced thing in the art is the large red “A” which overshadows almost everything in the illustration. The overt letter correlates with the scarlet letter overshadowing Hester and dehumanizing her. The “A” chokes “all the light and graceful foliage of her character… leaving a bare and harsh outline” (Hawthorne 151). As…

Tartuffe: Why You Can’t Trust Everyone Who Claims To Be Holy Tartuffe is a play filled with religious hypocrisy and the danger of trusting just anyone. The play centers around Orgon whose devout devotion to the supposed holy man Tartuffe almost cost him and his family everything. Orgon’s blind following of Tartuffe shows that he trust this virtual stranger more than he does his own family mainly because this man claims to be a man of God. The play also indicates that Orgon feels he is losing…

Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale being a foil for Hester develops both characters more and helps show the Hester’s spirit. •He publically hides behinds his ministry while Hester outwardly wears the A •He is a big deal in the community while she is hated and isolated. •He doesn’t immediately accept Pearl as his daughter while Hester accepts her immediately and loves her and takes care of her. Dimmesdale dying with the red mark on his chest is parallel to Hester having to publicly wearing the…

The Letter “A” At the start of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, the “A” acted as a symbol for Hester’s sin of adultery. In fact, her Puritan community punished her by forcing her to don a scarlet letter “A” upon her chest. Wearing this letter labelled her as a fallen woman. This caused her to stand out in such a way that numerous community members looked down at her and judged her for her sin. However, as time elapsed, the community gradually saw Hester for her contributions to…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is resembled as the rosebush. The rosebush is shown to represent hope for the prisoners to have hope to leave a place of sins, the rosebush also resembles Hester’s life in which flowers sometimes blossom and fall apart at times. Hester Prynne was invented by Nathaniel Hawthorne who created Prynne to be a woman who commits adultery and gets punished. Prynne is taken to prison in which Hawthorne explains it as a sad, dark, and depressing…

As Hester Prynne prepares to walk upon the scaffold for the townspeople to publicly shame her for committing adultery in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the narrator introduces not only the characteristics of Puritan society, but also how Puritan beliefs and ideologies affect Hester’s punishment and reputation within the community. Many townspeople believe that Hester’s punishment is not enough, one woman even going as far as to suggest that Hester “...has brought shame upon us all,…

As you live your life, everyone in their lifetime will encounter dark and light in the world. But… the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s scorn and bitterness, and become a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, and yet with reverence, too. Throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter, light and dark imagery, alluding to the larger conflict between good and evil, is present throughout the novel in the characters of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale,…