Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlett Letter, uses figurative speech in his writing to depict Puritan life and to show his views and beliefs of that society. This can be shown through the interaction between Pearl and the young minister, Dimmesdale and how much of a dichotomy in their actions they are but also how similar their expressed in the passage. The passage on page 96 starts off with the minister’s decision to allow Hester to keep her daughter, Pearl. After announcing his decision…
potential. Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses this theme of self-sacrifice in his novel, The Scarlet Letter, by using countless examples of characterization. He paints two living embodiments of Stafford’s quote: Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. These two characters stand as the physical representation of Hawthorne’s defense…
When considering Nathaniel Hawthorne as a writer, one would say guilt is a prevalent motif in his works, but has anyone ever thought about the psychology behind it? It may be difficult to realize, but Hawthorne looks through a psychological lens, especially in The Scarlet Letter and “The Birthmark.” Hawthorne’s characters are his own creations and each one is very distinct. The majority of these characters endure traumatic experiences, and the direction their sanity heads is all up to them.…
The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a well known book, between the scandals and lies within it. It starts out with Hester prynne, a women from a small puritan community. Hester is forced to stand out in front of the people of her community for a few hours as punishment for breaking one of them many laws of the people. What law did she break to be forced to do this? She committed adultery, having a child with another man while still married to her husband back in amsterdam. Throughout…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, focuses its attention around many predominant themes, which generate innumerable interpretations. Motifs such as adultery, revenge, and forgiveness are prevalent within the novel based on Puritan locale. The characters of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, each exhibit behaviors, which have been placed upon them by the burdens in their everyday lives. The Scarlett Letter focuses on the puritanical judgment of…
The Symbols in Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Minister’s Black Veil” “The Minister’s Black Veil”, one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s first published in 1836, have the reputation of been one of his best short stories during his life as a writer. The ambiguity of “The minister’s Black Veil” have been criticism exaggerated in the modern culture but more in some religious for the fact that they consider that the Reverend Mr. Hooper reflects the antichrist. Some scholars, particularly William Bysshe, have found,…
In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Dimmesdale, the town's minister, commits the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne. At the beginning of the novel the town forces Hester to stand on the town scaffold in order to confess and atone for her sin, while Dimmesdale hides in the background for seven years. Throughout the novel, Dimmesdale creates his own means of repentance in order to have himself forgiven. After confessing to the town he dies peacefully believing that God forgives…
In “The Birth-Mark”, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne provides a short story in which he has represented the characters with a higher meaning. The characters, Aylmer, Georgiana and Aminadab are given a bigger meaning than the surface of their characters; characterized as science, nature and man. Aylmer is symbolized science in “The Birth-Mark”. He is scientist whose love for science has intervene with the love of his wife, Georgiana. His greater love for science has caused him the desire to…
In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne the thought of sin is exhibited by the telling of a woman who has committed adultery against her missing husband and how not only her husband, but her husband and the man she loves struggle with the decisions they have made. The author shows this through the symbolic meaning of their names,their sins, and how their decisions affect them. Names have a symbolic meaning that can help the reader understand why the author chose that name. In Nan Lei’s…
It is better to let out a secret sooner rather than later because it can make a person to go insane. The novel The Scarlet letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne was filled with secrets and conflicts. The novel takes place during the 1850s; when people were accused for multiple reasons and trialed. Most of the trials were for adultery. In this novel, one character; Arthur Dimmesdale was accused for adultery. He loved Hester Prynne who also was accused for adultery because she was already…