Scarlet

In the novel The Scarlet Letter, we can find many ways to show that there are strong female characteristics in the main character Hester Prynne. Hester goes through many changes after being charged with the crime of adultery. Even though she had committed a crime, they decided to let her live her life in ignominy. As a strong female character, Hester proves that people can change over time even if she perpetrated a big sin. Though Hester is a strong female character this doesn’t conclude the…

The Mysterious Being! The first chapter of “The Scarlet Letter” sets in motion the rest of the story in a few aspects including; the setting, an imagined world, and hidden in the text, is Mother Nature. Something that one may overlook throughout simple daily life is the gift, protection, and unforgiveable powers of nature. However, when the society of man dishes out a harsh, unwanted fate to someone while turning their back in disappointment, such as the Puritan Society did to Hester Prynne,…

The Scarlet Letter, a novel on the subject of Pearl used as symbolism by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Pearl is used as a symbol by Hawthorne throughout the novel. If Pearl were not to be in this novel, the novel would not be easily perceived to the intended meaning. Pearl is used as a symbol throughout the novel by her changing Dimmesdale’s actions, her realization of the scarlet from infancy, and her outburst at the brookside. To start, Pearl is used as a symbol throughout the novel by changing the…

1. The Scarlet Letter is a fictional historical romance novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2. In The Scarlet Letter, the protagonist, Hester Prynne has been accused of adultery in her Puritan society, in Boston, Massachusetts. The novel opens with the narrator discussing the Custom House and his discovery of the story of Hester Prynne. Following this introduction, the story flashes back to the time of Hester Prynne. She is going from the prison to the town scaffold with onlookers…

by the many different characters found in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and assist the reader into going more in depth into the personal characteristics and inner-workings of each individual character, as they each show signs of one or more of the three main themes of the novel. The themes alienation, appearance versus reality, and breaking society’s rules are common in different literary works, but are extremely apparent in The Scarlet Letter. Being isolated,…

In his 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the turbulent effects of sin and guilt in a seventeenth-century Puritan society. The story begins and ends on the town's scaffold, first with Hester Prynne standing before the crowd, so young but already burdened with the life sentence of wearing a scarlet “A” for adultery. She holds her child, who is more a complicated symbol of an act of sin, than a familiar comfort. In the crowd stands her lover and her betrayed husband, whose…

skeleton in the closest shocks not only those entangled in the rumor, but those observing from afar. A subtle and quiet scandal not only punishes the accused, but employs power to numerous individuals. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s condemning novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne of Puritan Boston Massachusetts becomes intertwined in the town 's biggest scandal since its settlement. Hester had a child with Reverend Dimmesdale, while her estranged husband is thought to be lost at sea, while…

The theme of nature is portrayed heavily in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Nature is used to show the freedom or/and exclusion in characters such as Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and mostly Pearl as its symbols such as light/darkness, religion and the forest act upon them. This nineteenth century romantic novel portrays themes of Puritan religion that are contrasted profoundly with nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the comparison of light and darkness to expose both the good and evil in…

Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contains a heavy amount of symbolism. One symbol that is most prominent is the symbol of nature. First, we see the sunshine showing sin for Hester, and purity for Pearl. Along with this, there is the prickly burrs, which tag the sinner. Finally, there is the meteor striking across the sky as Dimmesdale sees this as acknowledgement of sin. All of these symbols give a greater meaning to the story. First, Hester and Pearl…

Beloved and Pearl, the two spirit-like characters of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, share one important theme for the main characters of Sethe and Hester. They are both people that are a consequence of an unfortunate event, that of adultery and premature death, that serve as a sign of a priority that Hester and sethe must take care of. For Beloved, Sethe's priority is to begin to stop denying the past and facing it and for Hester, Pearl serves as reminder…