Nathaniel Hawthorne

philosophical studies. On the contrary, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his famous dark romanticism and classical works. The anti-transcendentalist, Nathaniel Hawthorne describes his life growing up in an obscure and corrupt society in the introduction of his novel, The Scarlet Letter. He manifests his opposition towards commercialism and sees the dark side of man and the wickedness of society. In like manner, Hawthorne expresses, “literature… no…

Nathaniel Hawthorne includes the three scaffold scenes in The Scarlet Letter to create suffering and misfortune. These two nouns play to the plot of the novel and also to the character’s feelings throughout the story. The two characters that Hawthorne emphasizes into suffering and misfortune are Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale; in which both are seeing each other in secret and going against their beliefs. Their secluded meetings have led to Hester getting pregnant, which cannot be done…

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing in order to broadcast to the community that she has sinned. Throughout the novel the letter’s meaning begins to change. While it originally stood for “Adulterer”, it has begun to stand for “Able” instead, due to Hester’s acceptance of her sin and talent in embroidery. In the beginning of the novel after Hester is convicted and forced to wear the “A”, she is entirely shunned and scorned…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the theme of sin and hypocrisy which is used throughout the characters of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to show the biggest flaw that everyone carries, sin. Sin is an unavoidable, immoral action that every individual cannot deny and in this novel specifically; judgment is the main sin that takes place within the town and is directed towards Hester. Although the sin committed that the townspeople noticed and shamed Hester for was…

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne shows us three scaffold scenes that represents the basic structure of the novel. These three scenes took place in the center of the town which showed humiliation to the sinners. The scaffold scenes accorded in the beginning, middle, and end of the novel. Each scene showed how the book advanced action. In the beginning, the first scaffold scene involves Hester and Pearl. Hester is standing on the scaffold and holding her baby, Pearl.…

Nathaniel Hawthorne uses characterization to establish a tone of victimization throughout The Scarlet Letter. The people torment Hester Prynne and little Pearl through exclusion and mortification. Pearl suffers further from her stubborn and adventurous nature. Reverend Dimmesdale inflicts harsh punishments against himself out of guilt, resentment and shame for his sin. The deceptions that Boston’s naive masses believe make them the prey of ignorance. These psychological and physical horrors…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne presents three important scaffold scenes that help determine the genre of the novel. The genre could be classified as a romantic tragedy and historical fiction, which is Romanticism for this novel. Even though the story is more of a tragedy, the romantic elements are littered throughout the story, which is why some people consider the novel a romance. The romantic genre could mean two different types of romance, a love story, or Romanticism, a movement…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is resembled as the rosebush. The rosebush is shown to represent hope for the prisoners to have hope to leave a place of sins, the rosebush also resembles Hester’s life in which flowers sometimes blossom and fall apart at times. Hester Prynne was invented by Nathaniel Hawthorne who created Prynne to be a woman who commits adultery and gets punished. Prynne is taken to prison in which Hawthorne explains it as a sad, dark, and depressing…

Scarlet Letter Theme In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main characters Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale both committed the same sin, adultery. Hester became pregnant and was publicly shamed; however, none of the Puritans of Boston were the wiser about Dimmesdale’s sin. He alone lived with the constant knowledge of his sin. Whereas, Hester had everyone to share it with. Sin must be brought to light in order to be redeemed. Dimmesdale received many opportunities to confess…

In comparing two great writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson, we see both shared and unique traits. Though coming from different movements, both writers share similar ideas in their works. Hawthorne led the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism, while Emerson contributed to Transcendentalism. Romanticism includes that nature should be revered, cherished, and studied to its fullest capacity. The ultimate understanding and self-guidance is to be found in nature.…