Love letter

the theme of overcoming sin and shame by benevolent actions and deeds in The Scarlet Letter through the use of different symbols like the scarlet letter, Pearl, and the forest. Hester’s scarlet letter “A” starts off with being a symbol of sin, shame, and wrong doing but, by the end of the novel turned into a symbol of her identity that people came to respect. Pearl is like a living symbol of Hester’s scarlet letter where at first was the reason for all of Hester’s shame but, ended up being a…

The Scarlet Letter written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne was about what happens when you commit one of the greatest sins and it starts to eat you up inside because you don’t want to confess. The book is set in seventeenth century Boston, Massachusetts. In this time period the Puritans were extremely religious and they believed if you did good deeds you would be sent to Heaven and if you committed a sin you would be condemned to Hell. When men commit a sin in the Puritan society they are less…

It may be hard to remember what you were like as a seventeen-year-old girl, and you may have subconsciously or consciously erased embarrassing details at your discretion. In case your selective memory has been imposed upon you once more, I have provided a refresher course to remind you of how misguided but benign you were and how courageous and content you can be. An all encompassing characteristic of your childhood lies in the heart of confusion. A euphemism for it would be that you welcomed,…

revenge when another wrongs him or her in order to feel satisfaction and receive justice, but his or her acts may cause him or her to become like the other. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays revenge as a sin worse than adultery in his novel The Scarlet Letter. Roger Chillingworth, a physician, reveals in the beginning that he does not feel anger towards Hester, only towards the man who did not confess his sin. Chillingworth stays in town with his real identity hidden and notices a drastic…

Scarlet Letter Pearl is a fascinating character, she is Hester and Dimmesdale’s daughter and the incorporation of their sin, which symbolizes their concealed love affair. She is a living reminder of Hester’s sin; born not only out of outright sin, but through the innermost absolute love imaginable. Pearl is a very intelligent and energetic child but whom also has a mysterious, unusual trait about her that her mother has always been concerned of. Pearl symbolizes the scarlet letter “A”,…

This story happened about 200 years ago in Boston. It tells the story of love between three people. The punishment of the woman. Hester Prynne and her husband. Who claimed to Roger Chillingworth. He is an old man and a doctor deformity. Hester did not love him. Another man was a young minister, Dimmesdale, who has a high position ministers and respected among his people in the town. Hister and Dyer love one another. But their love is forbidden during that time. It is sinful. For this reason,…

He pulls aside his shirt and right away looks upon his chest, the same area he is feeling pain. The moment Roger was waiting for had come. His suspicions of the secret Dimmesdale were hiding was put to an end. On Dimmesdale’s chest was the Scarlett Letter. Roger walked away to safer grounds and a large smirk grew upon his face. His legs were stomping, his arms were waving accompanied by the signature evil scientist laugh. His demeanor is one similar to witchcraft. His reaction to the discovery…

she evaluates C.S. Lewis’ portrayal of women in his works. She discusses this term as the understanding that, according to Christian theology, that “the subordination of ego as well as of concerns of worldly power to the ultimate authority of divine love is liberating” (Hilder 21). Whereas in her essay “A Sword Between the Sexes,” Mary Van Leeuwen expresses her frustration with Lewis’ portrayal of “archetypal femininity and wifely obedience in a universe that, at its core, is one continuous…

burden for an individual. Corrupted by his unwillingness to do the righteous action, he becomes indecisive since there is a high possibility of becoming ridiculed by his society. Such a theme certainly exists in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Arthur Dimmesdale seems to have no consideration regarding the punishment of his lover, Hester Prynne, who has given birth to his child. Throughout the novel, however, he realizes the reality of which he becomes involved after the events that…

This viewpoint has appeared in stories, describing the purity of a woman indirectly as well as directly. As if women are like roses that once beautiful, after they are sullied are now hideous and should be ashamed of. Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter, was to be forever known as an adulterer, was banished from her society. If it had been known that Hester was married, she would have been hanged after the birth of her child. The ultimate crime of women cheating on her husband deems death, yet…