Nathaniel Ayers

Things, people, and opportunities come and go throughout one's life, but one thing stays forever, sin. Hester Prynee is a woman living in a Puritan town in present day Boston, whose sin of adultery sentences her to a life time of wearing a scarlet "A". In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses Hester to prove that sin is eternal. This is shown through how her daughter sees her, Hester's personal view of the "A", and the inscription on her tombstone. When one sins, it becomes apart of…

Throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne’s objective is to convey a message that individuals must be true to themselves and to others. Hawthorne allows readers to see what prompts characters to act the way they do such as Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and Pearl Prynne. Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth do no stay true to themselves or others around them, hence their life’s negative outcome. Pearl remains true to herself and those around…

Commandments being some of the most important. The seventh commandment is referenced throughout the entirety of the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” In this novel, Hester Prynne has committed this particular act of evil, and is forced to wear a scarlet letter “A” for the remainder of her life as punishment. Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates that while human nature is inherently evil, -- judging by the characters of Roger Chillingworth, Pearl…

In The Scarlet Letter the third scaffold theme develops the vital theme of embracing your true identity; Dimmesdale confesses his sin, Chillingworth realizes that his life is pointless with out someone to torture, and Hester stay’s true to her life in the past. The Election Day sermon has all of New England praising Dimmesdale, his words have moved them. Dimmesdale, however, has been hiding his sin for what seems a life time. The secretiveness has had a torturing affect on him. Dimmesdale…

stunning Sasha Fierce. Creating another persona for oneself is seen as something empowering that allows one to gain a greater sense of self. But what happens when one’s personalities are at odds with one another? Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the character Arthur Dimmesdale to show the tragic side of wearing two faces. As Hawthorne shows in his work, the maintenance of two different personas leads to moral conflict which can inflict physical and psychological damage on…

My time with the Bostonian Paper The interviewer asked “What can you remember from the time when Hester was up on the Scaffold?” Twas’ a crisp summer morning as I remember, Hester was coming out through the prison lane and onto the scaffold. Walking by the People were gossiping about her whilst she was on the stage, talking about her adultery with this, unknown male. Up there on the stage she was being scorned at by all the townsfolk, her baby in her arms. The light was shining bright upon them…

Midterm Reverse Outline 2017 Directions: Using your Midterm writing, fill in the parts of the outline next to the description. Do not add in, yet. This is simply a way for you to see what information you did and did not provide. It might be helpful to use black font, rather than the PINK Controlling Idea (CI): xxxxxxxx Literary Element (LE): Define the LE: Symbolism... the snow represents the bomb INTRO: Begin with a general statement: Something about the Controlling Idea but not…

From Friend to Fiend The human race is an evolving species over millions of years or in a character’s case, over a few hundred pages in a book. Roger Chillingworth is a character that falls in the category of evolving and changing throughout the text. In the beginning of The Scarlet Letter, he can be viewed as someone who can be related to the poem “If” written by Rudyard Kipling, but as the plot is twisted and turned so is the character of Chillingworth. His innocence and sympathy is quite…

“American Romanticism was the first full-fledged literary movement that developed in the U.S. It was made up of a group of authors who wrote and published between the years 1820 and 1860, when the U.S. was still finding its feet as a new nation.” It’s understandable that when people hear the word romanticism, they think of love and romance. However, the word “romanticism” actually comes from a movement that changed the way in which various literary writers (and artists) expressed themselves,…

Scarlet Letter "…This scarlet letter is his mark!" (176 Hawthorne). The character has become victim of sin, but she grows from this sin and guilt. She fought to make life better: despite, her place as a social outcast. The symbolism of the letter “A” changes from the meaning of adultery, to able, to angelic qualities, to Pearls living persona of the letter “A” on her mother’s bosom. Hester fell in love with another man, a man other than her husband. The emotional state leads to the “A” first…