Scarlet Witch

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…

the boxes we hide in. It is always difficult to accept our failures and shortcomings, but it always has a way of teaching us valuable lessons. Our mistakes are gifts and guideposts in our learning and growth as people. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, he reveals that the most important virtue is the capacity for self growth and the most destructive human weakness is hypocrisy. Hawthorne uses Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to emphasize the flaws in Puritan society. As Hester…

There are many situations where adversity will impact someone’s emotional state and their health; these situations can induce advantageous qualities in a person or cause permanent emotional harm. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the major characters all undergo a form of adversity. Throughout the book, Hester Prynne and Pearl constantly endure judgment and condemnation from the Puritan townspeople. Arthur Dimmesdale, unable to confess to his sin with Hester, suffers and has trouble…

In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses many symbols, for example the sunshine, the forest, and water. Symbols of things would be the scarlet letter itself and the symbols of places would be like the scaffold. Finally, symbols of people would include Dimmesdale and Pearl, also being a symbol, are one of the heavily symbolized characters in the book. Some of these symbols can help characters understand their lives or even foreshadow events that appear later in the story.. In this novel, the symbols…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Puritan society and its doctrine have dictated the people’s lives and makes their devotion to God to cause them to see the worse of its people. Hester Prynne, the main character, has her reputation ruined by committing adultery which causes the Puritan society to punish and continuously judge her. In addition, the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, is stuck between confessing to his sin of adultery or keeping it a secret which causes him to…

The five major scenes in The Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, there are five major scenes that are huge turning points for the characters involved. These scenes are powerful to the readers and essential for the progression of the plot. The first major scene was when Hester stood on the scaffold holding her tiny baby in her arms with the striking scarlet letter “A” embroidered on her bosom. The second was three long years after Hester had descended from her shameful…

Kayla Sparling Mrs. Soltis English 10 H 11 January 2016 The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism Symbolism is a topic that is widely concealed throughout the chapter of The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne uses such symbolism in a way to give the reader a better understanding of the book. Some symbols relatively have a limited range of meanings, but could be simplified to stand for only one thing (Foster 98). Throughout The Scarlet Letter, symbols including character names, the letter “A” found…