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The Scarlet Letter in The Scarlet Letter The Puritans during the 1600s did not take sin lightly, anyone who disobeyed the law was heavily persecuted. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this is depicted through the character, crime, and punishment of Hester Prynne, who has committed adultery and is sentenced to wear the scarlet letter to publicly show her shame. This scarlet letter A plays a key role throughout Hawthorne’s novel as it is vividly described throughout it, it…

Scarlet Letter “A” “On a field, sable, the letter A, gules” (Hawthorne 259). The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story of a woman named Hester Prynne who overcomes the pestering punishment of wearing the scarlet “A”. This letter is given to her by the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester changes the symbolic meaning of the letter “A” from her sin of “adultery,” to being an “able” woman, to gracious, ultimately defining her own identity. The letter…

were noticeably harsher. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is heavily centered on how the Puritan people face guilt and sin in ways their religion and culture allowed. As the plot develops, the four main characters-Hester Prynne, Pearl Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingsworth- reach individual development by dealing with the effects of guilt and sin individually. Hester opposes it by flagrantly wearing a scarlet letter on her chest, Pearl manages by being a living symbol of…

Scarlet Letter "…This scarlet letter is his mark!" (176 Hawthorne). The character has become victim of sin, but she grows from this sin and guilt. She fought to make life better: despite, her place as a social outcast. The symbolism of the letter “A” changes from the meaning of adultery, to able, to angelic qualities, to Pearls living persona of the letter “A” on her mother’s bosom. Hester fell in love with another man, a man other than her husband. The emotional state leads to the “A” first…

philosophical movement known as Transcendentalism which supported the ideas of civil disobedience, self-reliance, and nature as a reflection of God. Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the Transcendentalist authors, uses the idea of this philosophy in The Scarlet Letter (1850), in which Hester Prynne along with her daughter, Pearl, is cast out by the Puritans as an adulterer. While Hester has been punished for her sin, Arthur Dimmesdale, the town pastor, is overcome with guilt as he is the other…

Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism throughout the entirety of The Scarlet Letter to show the importance and meaning of several people, objects, and things. Hawthorne utilizes these precious symbols throughout the novel for various reasons. While some symbols only have one distinct meaning, others are ambiguous, unlocking the secrets of a story. For example, Hester’s beloved scarlet letter “A”, the most obvious symbol in the narrative, takes on many meanings, such as shame, punishment, and…

The Scarlet Letter Through a Feminist Lens In a 17th century puritanical society one definitely does not get too much freedom. Especially if one is like that of Hester Prynne, an adulteress with a child from her affair. While Hester may be a cheater and stands for all of the things that are wrong in the world, there is two sides to every story. Hester could be seen as a hero, a 17th century feminist role model for all of the girls in the Puritan community despite the sins that she has…

The scarlet letter is supposed to be a symbol of dishonor; however, Hester Prynne turns the meaning around, and it becomes a symbol to distinguish her. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter shows that one should not flee from sin but should take it on directly. Puritans came to the New World to change the rules; however, committing adultery was not one of them and is still looked at as a terrible sin. Adultery is the sin of being unfaithful and cheating on one’s partner. Even though Hester is…

past is done, so forget it; your future is yet to come, so dream it.” People learn from their past in order to learn from their mistakes. They know that they can fix them and become better people. It wasn 't always like that, in the book The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character Hester realizes that even though she did she committed a sin in her past the Puritan community sees that sin as one of the worst sins you can commit and will never forget what she has done.…

the book The Scarlet Letter but does not pay attention to certain things that mean more than what it says. Everything you read could mean more than just words in a book, which is why you should pay more attention and read between the lines. There are many symbols in The Scarlet Letter with different meanings that represents more. To the Puritans the letter “A” represents adultery but in the book it had different meanings. For example, in the beginning of the book, the letter “A” represents…