Letter

Course Date Analyze and Interpretation: The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis In The Screwtape Letter, Lewis writes a satirical and epistolary text that explores the Christian theological concepts of temptation and the capability of human nature to resist satisfying greed and personal benefit. Lewis uses fictional characters such as Screwtape, a senior demon who writes a series of letters to Wormwood, his nephew and a junior tempter. These letters are instructions which pertain to Wormwood’s…

In reading ‘The Scarlet Letter’ Hawthorne’s novel can be found to be psychologically cohesive based on its characters. Though many characters in Hawthorne’s story exemplify this, no one other than Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and the young Pearl express this trait more. Throughout the story, the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne plagues Arthur Dimmesdale, but this plague is not of his body. No, it is of his mind and soul, hence the psychology. Likewise, Chillingworth also…

committing adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter to show the crime she committed. Hester and the minister committed adultery and for this Pearl will never know her father and they will live their lives in loneliness. Growing up as a Puritan that was all Hester knew of, but after committing her sin she embraces who she has become. Hester Prynne represents transcendentalism for the way she embraces the scarlet letter and must be self-reliant to help support herself and her…

coworkers or some other terrible deed. After causing someone else grief, they still get some beauty from the world. The rosebush in the story is used to display nature’s grace and, the sun is used for freedom when it shines down on one. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses the rosebush outside of the prison and the sun shining on characters as symbols for the theme that sins can be forgiven. On this note, using a rosebush, Hawthorne shows the wonderful effects that can happen after sinning.…

The Scarlet Letter is a tale the exemplifies and expounds Romanticism in the faculty of mankind and the natural world have a relation. Also, God has been placed back into the specific nature. Hester Prynne, a young women, is marked with the absurd symbol of the Scarlet Letter, in which the community she lived within in Boston condemned her with, exhibiting her wrong doing. The Scarlet Letter was an “A” for the “adulterer” which she worn upon her bosom. Arthur Dimmesdale, the man who helped…

As with her lover and her partner in sin, the life of Hester Prynne 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…

The Scarlet letter was one of the most recognizable uses of symbolism in a novel over the last two centuries. The letter “A” has been given more than one meaning in the book. As a reader delves deeper into the book, “adultery, angel, and able” are all the symbols of “A” that the people associate the scarlet letter with. The main character Hester Prynne, a Puritan, married woman, commits adultery with a very ironic figure, a pastor. He goes by Dimmesdale, and in the act Hester gets pregnant.…

The scarlet letter took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the seventeenth century. There are many themes and ideas in The Scarlet Letter, they were based on the beliefs of the puritans during that time. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the ideas of how society was being hypocritical and punishing others for their own pleasure throughout the book to show how the people in society treated Hester prynne based on the sin that she commited and pearl based on her parent's actions. The author exposes…

In the novel The Scarlett Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main character, Hester Prynne, is branded with the letter A. She is branded with this letter because she has committed adultery, and her punishment is the ridicule from her peers. So I ask myself; if I were to have a scarlet letter, what would it be? It could be a P for procrastination or maybe an N noisy. Or maybe an I for indecisive because I am having some trouble even picking out a letter. But the one I think fits me best…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne written in the 1850’s is an American gothic novel that is about the sin and life of Hester Prynne and the novel also portrays acts of evil demonstrated by Roger Chillingworth, the ex-husband of Hester who she cheated on. Another American Gothic novel that portrays evil is Moby Dick by Herman Melville, written in 1851, which is about a sailor who is after the white whale that took his leg, this character also portrays a lot of evil acts throughout this…