Scarlet

After committing adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter to show the crime she committed. Hester and the minister committed adultery and for this Pearl will never know her father and they will live their lives in loneliness. Growing up as a Puritan that was all Hester knew of, but after committing her sin she embraces who she has become. Hester Prynne represents transcendentalism for the way she embraces the scarlet letter and must be self-reliant to help support herself and…

The Scarlet Letter a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the nineteen centuries the age of reason, while written about the seventeen centuries. Nathaniel Hawthorne used his perception of the age of reasoning to give his audience a new view of the seventeen centuries. Nonetheless during that time the settlers wanted to be pure under the eye of God they also wanted to have all sorts of benefits. That is not only in the novel like that but it is also implemented in the actual time period.…

(Thomas Fuller). Everyone has sinned in their lifetime because we are all born sinners. Although people try their best not to sin, most people fail to resist the will to sin. Sin is a transgression against divine law. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne suffered at the hands of the townsfolk, Roger Chillingworth, and the rule of the Puritan religion. As the crowd watches and waits for Hester to exit the prison door, the gossips discusses Hetser and the sin she…

In other words, a feminist is an advocate or supporter of women’s rights and equality. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, women are generally portrayed as inferior to men. Feminism was not in existence in the setting of Hawthorne 's novel , nor was it supported at its publication. Nevertheless, women 's advancement in society is made apparent in The Scarlet Letter by the novel’s main character, Hester Prynne. Unlike the submissive women of the Puritan community, Hester pursued…

As has been well established in The Scarlet Letter, there are sins and sinners galore, no matter your definition of it. Who is actually at fault for these sins, though? Should we put more blame on the sinner themselves, or maybe turn to look at the enforcers and the ones who encouraged and even perhaps helped the sinner commit their crime? Is there only one side to the story, or are there several? While it very well could be argued that Chillingworth/Dimmesdale/Hester is the sole person to…

The Scarlet letter was one of the most recognizable uses of symbolism in a novel over the last two centuries. The letter “A” has been given more than one meaning in the book. As a reader delves deeper into the book, “adultery, angel, and able” are all the symbols of “A” that the people associate the scarlet letter with. The main character Hester Prynne, a Puritan, married woman, commits adultery with a very ironic figure, a pastor. He goes by Dimmesdale, and in the act Hester gets pregnant.…

Pearl, a child born from sin and a living embodiment of the act itself, is a complex character in The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Pearl’s personality and actions throughout the novel are reflective of her surroundings, as ignorance to the sin which created her prevents any influence from the concept that her existence is a result of an act which those in a Puritan community find so repugnant that Hester is punished with being the permanent representation of adultery. The…

The Scarlet Letter is a tale the exemplifies and expounds Romanticism in the faculty of mankind and the natural world have a relation. Also, God has been placed back into the specific nature. Hester Prynne, a young women, is marked with the absurd symbol of the Scarlet Letter, in which the community she lived within in Boston condemned her with, exhibiting her wrong doing. The Scarlet Letter was an “A” for the “adulterer” which she worn upon her bosom. Arthur Dimmesdale, the man who helped…

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the letter “A” as a powerful symbol to identify the central character, Hester Prynne. It is also the title of the novel. Hester is obligated to wear the letter as a symbol of her adulterous affair with Dimmesdale, a minister of the church. They both reside in the puritan community and are compelled to practice the Puritan moral code which torments them daily. Hester walks out of the prison door carrying baby Pearl towards the scaffold…

The scarlet letter took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the seventeenth century. There are many themes and ideas in The Scarlet Letter, they were based on the beliefs of the puritans during that time. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the ideas of how society was being hypocritical and punishing others for their own pleasure throughout the book to show how the people in society treated Hester prynne based on the sin that she commited and pearl based on her parent's actions. The author exposes…