Love letter

Hester Prynne and Arnold Spirit are two characters who don’t have much in common besides the fact that despite all issues and conflicts, they tried to fit into society. These two have tried to conform to social norms, yet at the same tried to escape society and rise above their struggles and the hatred they received from others. For Hester Prynne, each and every day she struggled to deal with ignominy and the townspeople constantly looking down at her because of her past. Arnold Spirit on the…

¨The Scarlet Letter¨ has a deep theme of morality. Hawthorne himself states that ¨The Scarlet Letter¨ is ¨a tale of human frailty and sorrow,¨ (55). This morality which is found throughout the entire book. Hawthorne makes sure that the reader knows this theme very well by the time the reader finishes this book. This theme of morality can be found in the Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and the important scenes of which they are involved. Hester, the executor of a crime against marriage, has…

away and, as far as she and the rest of the town know, dead. When the town learns about her adultery, they imprison her for years. Eventually, she gets out of prison in turn for an even worse punishment. Every day she is required to wear a scarlet letter A sewn into her clothes and she must spend hours on a scaffold being ridiculed by the townspeople for her crime. As far as I knew, my husband was dead. He went out to sea four years ago and never returned. I made one mistake and now I lost…

Sophocles once said “Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.” In the novel The Scarlet Letter, hiding from the truth destroys the character Arthur Dimmesdale. In the novel, Arthur is a Puritan minister and has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne, and he seeks to hide the truth of his relationship with her. While he longs to hide his identity as Pearl 's’ father, Hester Prynne must have an “A” attached to her chest while she is condemned by her…

This conviction unveils her belief that if she runs away from her problems, it would only declare society’s power over her. The second imperative moment is when Roger Chillingworth informs her that the town fathers are considered to have her scarlet letter removed. Hester reacts with dismay, and is worried about losing her identity. There have been brief periods of time in my life where I have lost my identity. I have felt such shame and guilt about some of the choices I have made. I have had…

one eighty change It is ironic how one mistake can lead to the demise of the main characters in The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the novel, the reader experiences the drastic changes the main characters go through after the adultery the adulterous act of by Hester and Dimmesdale. Since Hester had committed a sin, she must endure the punishment of wearing the scarlet letter. The sin caused Dimmesdale to become sick with guilt and her ex-husband Chillingworth to be consume…

chin, I think this was because his smile and words are important to the mood of the story. The people begin to believe that Mr. Hooper had committed a sin and was using the veil to hide from God. Hawthorne had done something like this in The Scarlet Letter when Hester had to wear the “A”. “Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost of fearful a sight to the minister, as his black veil to them.” (2) Showed us that the congregation was afraid of the veil, but Mr. Hooper was also afraid of…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was about this lady named Hester, who commits a sin. She was accused of adultery and had to run around town wearing the scarlet A. Although this book talks about many other people committing to sins, Hester is the only one who had to wear the scarlet A. Hester did not commit the biggest sin, yet she was still punished the most. The character who committed the biggest sin was Roger Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth commits the biggest sins because he had…

How does Hawthorne use Dimmesdale's character to help emphasize the hypocrisy of the puritan society? Puritan society of the 1800s saw the world in black and white, good or bad, right or wrong. In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Dimmesdale’s character, who is a minister in a puritan society, to highlight how this simplistic view of the world is full of hypocrisy. In a society that does not see people for the multiple dimensions they have, individuals are easily painted in…

The Scarlet Letter the physician, Roger Chillingworth, of a small, Puritan town in 17th century Boston believed he was paramount. Roger Chillingworth ambitiously put his own aspirations above everyone else’s in order to establish preeminence over Hester Prynne’s, his wife’s, lover and attempt to secure Hester’s heart forever. Chillingworth…