Love letter

please in society because you have the right to. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the entity of two different laws of nature, Puritan and natural are represented by Hester’s instinct to follow the laws of nature rather than the laws of the Puritans and their society, to earn her own contentment. A woman named Hester has a baby with someone who is not her husband, gets locked up, put in jail and is forced to wear a Scarlet letter “A” on her chest for the rest of her life to due…

The Scarlet Letter is a symbol of a sin, that both Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale committed. This sin is adultery. Hester Prynne was punished for her sin, but never told anyone who the other person was. She kept it a secret for a very long time. Hester Prynne had her baby, Pearl, and still never said who was the other parent was. Hester has spent time in jail, she has been publicly embarrassed, and she wears the scarlet letter on her chest everyday for everyone to see it. Hester deals…

What is change? Is change always for the better or does it end up hurting people? In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne explores how one grievous action can change how a person is viewed by society, how that person feels inside, or even how he examines the rest of the world. This change is not, however constant throughout this novel, the changes are in fact set on by Pearl. Whenever any character is near Pearl is when he or she changes because Pearl, herself, is a…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, he presents antagonistic Roger Chillingworth as he focuses his life on seeking revenge on Reverend Dimmesdale, wearing down his prosperous intelligence, and taking over his mental functions by transforming him into an identifiable diabolic embodiment. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter employs begrimed diction, despicable tone towards Chillingworth, and satanic metaphors to accentuate the counteracting and pernicious repercussions within cynical…

The Scarlet Letter is a framed story. The Narrator works at a customhouse in Salem Massachusetts, one day he discovers an uncompleted manuscript in the attic and a patch of cloth in the shape of an A. When he picks up the piece of cloth he feels as though he has been burned. The manuscript is a log describing events that happened around two hundred years ago. The narrator decides to finish the story and so he writes The Scarlet Letter. The story is set in 1600’s and depicts the life of Hester…

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…

writer, and in 1850 he writes one of the most “American” books on the shelf. Although, most claim he is a heavy Dark Romantic influence, in The Scarlet Letter his attractiveness toward the Transcendentalist movement - shine - through. The Transcendental movement embodied the spirit of hope and exuded emotion over logic. The fact that The Scarlet Letter is a romance, and not a novel is perhaps the easiest way to see that Hawthorne aimed for a symbolic view and not a literal one. Nature is the…

It was a cold, somber Tuesday in Puritanical Boston. The clock had just struck 5 a.m. when I was starteledly awaken by the sounds of the rooster’s crow as dawn rose. I had never quite gotten used to this town since the moment I arrived, about a year ago, from my dear England. Alas, I reluctantly got up and strolled to the kitchen when I glimpsed out the window to find an enormous crowd gathered around the loathed wooden scaffold. I wasn’t too surprised, after all the people in this town had the…

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a variety of descriptions to undermine the true character of Roger Chillingworth. "..he was originally the only character without a problem or a sin, he became the one who performed the worst sins of all.” Chillingworth comes into the story conveyed as the partner who had been wronged, although throughout the book steadily becomes symbolically evil. Hawthorne introduces Chillingworth in chapter three when Hester is serving her punishment on the…

because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear…” (Steen “Adversity Quotes”). In other words hope aids in overcoming adversity because it makes the situation bearable. Othello in Othello by William Shakespeare, Hester in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Huck in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain exemplify adversity. Adversity means overcoming misfortunes through hope and learning from one’s mistakes. Adversity occurs in many different ways; it may happen…