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of place and draws attention, but reminds one to think past the sorrows. Similarly , in any sombre situation, children are just as incongruous. They’re out of place, but can cause one to think past the despair. Pearl is a necessity to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, because her presence is one of very few factors that cannot be changed without altering the entire book. If Pearl was absent from the book, meaning there was no child at all, the book would be greatly changed; even if…

Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, threats to character’s sense of identity result in huge changes to their personality. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the townspeople stripping Hester Prynne of her initial sense of identity unexpectedly exposed her charitable nature. Hester, a woman who was punished after committing…

as successfully argued in the article, “Guilt: Or Why It’s Good To Feel Bad,” written by Jane Brody. These arguments are then strengthened by the main characters: Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth in the novel The Scarlet Letter. Guilt is positive emotion…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, written in 1850, the author brings about the question of who the better guardian would be to raise Hester’s daughter, Pearl. In the novel, the three adults who are introduced as possible guardians are Hester, Pearl’s mother, Roger Chillingworth, the town’s physician, and Arthur Dimmesdale, the town’s Minister. When the question is brought forward it is clear that Hester is the superior choice, not only because her guardianship is…

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 Dimmesdale was challenged many times and each time he failed, proving he was in fact cowardly. From the very beginning Dimmesdale hid the fact that…

The Scarlet letter follows the life of a woman named Hester Prynne. Shunned for having a child out of wedlock, Hester is publicly humiliated and sentenced to wear a scarlet letter upon her bosom. The father of the child never comes forward during Hester’s humiliation and she refuses to reveal his name. Belonging to a church, which is under a young clergyman named Mr. Dimmesdale, the responsibility falls on him to convince Hester to reveal the guilty one’s name; pleading with her to have pity on…

12 October 2015 The Scarlet Letter Essay (2015 FRQ 3) The Scarlet Letter is a novel centered on contrasts. Contrasts between outward reputation and inner guilt, puritanical law and true sin, and intentions and actions, create a dynamic of hypocrisy, a hypocrisy that infects and slowly debilitates all those involved. Specifically, acts of cruelty are used as vehicles through which Hawthorne delivers his indictment of duplicity and hypocrisy. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses…

Everybody has their secrets, things no one would expect of them. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale are prime examples of this in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. After Hester Prynne makes her way into the Massachusetts colony where Dimmesdale lives, they eventually become lovers and she becomes pregnant with his child. While no one in the community is sure of the identity of the father, they treat Hester with revulsion and punish her for her actions. Hester’s crime causes her to face new…

The moral consequences of sin always bestows itself upon the wrongdoer, whether he or she is a strong and independent individual or even a figure of God. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale must live in shame for the rest of their lives because of the adultery they committed with each other. Later in the story however, Hester progressively becomes accepting of her sin and it strengthens her sense of individuality while Dimmesdale hides it…

Hawthorne’s romantic novel, The Scarlet Letter, revolves around the themes of sin and concealment. In this novel, the protagonist Hester bears the scarlet letter, a reminder of her sin in society. However, governor Dimmesdale hides his sin, eventually causing a sense of internal conflict that manifests him. After struggling with his sin, the governor repents, causing both Hester and him to become one with their sins. Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses dualities to reveal that society…