Love letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an author in the 1860’s. Obsessed with writing about Puritan society, he wrote a romance novel in 1850 set in a 1600’s Puritan town. In this novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne used the symbolism of the Wild Rose Bush, Pearl, and the Sunlight in the Forest to contribute to the overall theme of imperfection. First off, Hawthorne uses the Wild Rose Bush to contribute to the theme of imperfection. The rose bush holds beautiful blossoming flowers, but each flower…

public shunning, she stood on the scaffold holding Pearl in her arms with the scarlet letter “A” on her chest without crying or trying to hide. She wore the embroidered “A” for the rest of her life as if the only one who could possibly erase it was God himself. She knew what she did was wrong; she didn’t need anyone to tell her that. She even dressed Pearl in clothes to symbolize a visual image of the scarlet letter so she could repeatedly remind herself of what she had done. After she was cast…

Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is one of the first feminists in literature. She has committed adultery and is sentenced to wearing a scarlet ‘A,’ signifying her sin, as her punishment. This ‘A’ brings her shame and judgment from the community, allowing everyone to know of her illegitimate relations. However, as a feminist figure, she accepts this punishment as one from herself. She understands what she has done, and by accepting it, she becomes a strong willed, free woman. In The Scarlet Letter,…

feels about people and their community can often subconsciously come through in their work, since works of literature are often a reflection of the author’s life or point of view, even when not intended to be so. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne demonstrates the way he views society and other people as a whole through the way he makes characters interact with each other, and also through how they interact with their society. His writing makes it clear that he has an…

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Keller. The truth in one’s character is a prevailing theme throughout The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is being accused and persecuted for her sin by hypocritical townspeople and powerful men. She protects her lover, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, even though others are begging her to give…

The letters of Abelard and Heloise The letters of Abelard and Heloise describes the story of a love not meant to be for their time due to the ideas and morality of the religion. The tragedy is presented by an exchange of letters between Abelard and Heloise starting when Heloise receives by mistake a letter that was not meant to fall in her hands. The letters describe the struggles of two lovers during medieval times. Heloise and Abelard fall in love during Abelard’s teachings and their sexual…

make them understand that she is the hero. This tone shows the respect that Van Doren feels toward Hawthorne due to his successful portrayal of the character Hester Prynne. Van Doren points out her “she makes more show than she needs to make of the letter on her bosom, the symbol she insists upon adorning with such ‘wild and picturesque peculiarity.’” He uses his reverent tone to show how he respects the character of Hester Prynne for her bravery. To show that not only does she make the object…

show the progression of their personalities throughout the story. Hawthorne does this in his novel The Scarlet Letter. He ties all the characters together and uses them to show each others personalities. Roger Chillingworth is the antagonist of the story, and he becomes more and more evil as the story goes on. Roger chillingworth comes to town as a mysterious figure, but everybody loves just because of the fact that he is a doctor. Nobody stops to think twice, or to question his morals, they…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth are tied in complex ways. Married openly and then in secret, both have betrayed and harmed one another. Both have sinned, and both have let their hopes and passions blind them and carry them astray. While Hester and Chillingworth have seemingly opposite motives, drives, and desires, their fates are bound together. Chillingworth’s comparisons of Hester and himself communicate his views on their past and future…

excessive and unhealthy interest in them” (C.S. Lewis). As one of the most influential Christian writers of all time, C.S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters as a collection of 31 convicting letters from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon. After beginning in July of 1940, it took Lewis a little over six months to complete the letters. They were later published weekly in a gazette called The Guardian. Screwtape, who is described as an assistant to “Our Father…