Scarlet Witch

"Fun little trick, isn't it?" Moriarty questioned, keeping his hands behind his back formally. "What did you do to me…?" he asked firmly but his voice only comes out in a hoarse whisper. Jim didn't answer, he just smiled, sitting in a metal chair not to far away. "Figure it out Holmes," He challenged, his palms facing the ceiling. Sherlock searched his mind, it didn't take very long, and the answer was obvious. He should have figured it out sooner but he can blame the slowness of his quick…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book, “The Scarlet Letter”, and short story “Young Goodman Brown” both have an abundance of mentions of the subject of witchcraft. Witchcraft has origins that go back hundreds of years (Brief History of Witchcraft). Witchcraft was originally performed by approximately an equal amount of both men and women, but was later practiced more predominately by women (Brief History of Witchcraft). Witchcraft most often entails common or low magic worked through spells, charms, and…

The Scarlets Letters Meaning Throughout Time Imagine being in kindergarten, eager and adolescent, anxious to learn new things. What will be first? Spelling? Math? No, here it comes, the alphabet. “A, B, C, D..” and so on in tiny maturing voices. It’s one of the most vital things anyone can learn in life, it’s the basics for all language. But who knew while getting older, that the letters can be turned into a whole other meaning? We as individuals can decide what each letter may represent, but…

fantasy. These worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape.” Neil Gaiman writes about the two worlds all people live through. One side of a personality is shown to the world, while the other side is hidden. Hester Prynne, the main character in The Scarlet Letter, which is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, experiences the negative and positive aspects of two worlds. In the time period of the book, which takes place in Colonial America, most communities, including Boston, were Puritan. Harsh…

The Scarlet Letter Draft “All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity”-James Fenimore Cooper. Throughout the Romantic novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne establishes the idea individuality and conformity and how it defines one’s identity. By utilizing a cast of characters such as the young adultress, Hester Prynne and her secret…

The Scarlet Letter is a novel containing a character that is considered to be one of the first great heroines of American Literature. Hester Prynne is illustrated as a very strong woman despite the way she has been victimized. Many people residing in the same town she moved to had mistreated her because of a sin she committed. She was publicly humiliated in front of women who, for the time she spent standing on a scaffold, belittled her. Regardless of the fact that she had to go through this…

In this novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one character stands out above all. Pearl, the walking scarlet letter, at several points in this novel, serves as a bridge between sin and happiness. Unity is a key part in this novel, and is displayed by and through Pearl at various parts of this novel. Pearl is constantly used to symbolize several different things, and is essential to understanding each individual character and also essential to understanding the novel in…

Sin and its Consequences in the ScArlet Letter Nathanial Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” is a novel with numerous themes, spanning from revenge to femininity to the supernatural. One of the most prominent themes, is the theme of sin and its consequences on peoples mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of their lives. In “The Scarlet Letter”, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth epitomize the theme of sin with each of their unique situations of sin and in how…

Today, people punished by law get sent to jail, but imagine unique circumstances where punishments from the past were allowed to be used in present day. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an American classic. Set in New England, Hawthorne brings in the aspects of a pioneer settlement during the 1700s. Though the book was written in the 1800s, it more closely relates to life in the 1700s. Religion played a very important role in society during the 1700s. The ministers and…

shaming has been around since the 1620s, where people started with bringing shame on to those who committed a sin. This practice is demonstrated through The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this book, Hester Prynne, of Puritan Boston, is shamed because she committed the sin of adultery. As a consequence, she is forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her clothing. Then, fast-forward to modern times, and those who do wrong are shamed through…