Scarlett

forgiveness are prevalent within the novel based on Puritan locale. The characters of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, each exhibit behaviors, which have been placed upon them by the burdens in their everyday lives. The Scarlett Letter focuses on the puritanical judgment of what is deemed a sinful act and how this same act affects the three aforementioned characters who share this secret in an entirely different way. Hester Prynne impresses the reader by…

character or reading about one in a book, sin plays a great part in much of the characters downfalls, and in those moments they reveal their true characteristics. The characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth in the novel The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are no different. Throughout the novel, the reader witnesses how sin affects these three and teaches the reader about how sin can affect our human nature. Hawthorne suggests that a person’s authentic character…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter is set in a time when colonists were trying to create a better society than they were previously used to. Early Puritan towns set out to do just that; create a utopian society where puritan morals were followed very strictly. Hawthorne’s anti-transcendentalist views give a clear focus on the communities’ strict views that show no regard for the individuals in society, but only for the conformity needed to repress any sinful lures that may tarnish the…

“Good” and “evil” do not exist. There are noble ones who use these abstract ideals to help society stay afloat, but often times they’re only in place to assert dominance and perpetual fear over others. 19th-century author, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter analyzes a system that follows the latter. In the book, we’re introduced to Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected minister, who, in a moment of passion, fathers a child with a married woman, Hester Prynne. Committing this sin causes…

In a society of neutral colors, the child dressed all in scarlet and gold appeared to be an alien in a foreign land. As she pranced through the cemetery with her mother, also wearing the colors of scarlet and gold, the daughter stood as a reminder of the adultery that the mother had committed. The daughter, Pearl, and the mother, Hester Prynne, are characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a novel about sin and how people deal with the after effects of sin. Hawthorne uses Hester…

Everyone today has a place in their lives, whether it is a place for peace or a place to express their true feelings and guilt. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, Throughout the novel, the meeting place at the scaffold presents the three most important scenes. It symbolizes shame and sin as well as sight of redemption for Hester. Hester’s punishment comes full circle at the scaffold, as it starts with humiliation and ends with salvation for herself, Pearl, and Dimmesdale.…

In his novel, Hawthorne shows that while sin which is exposed and confessed, frees the sinner's mind and often brings about a transformation in their life, sin which is concealed and cherished causes ruin and death. Hawthorne uses Hester, the woman suffering public shame and contempt, the sensitive and disturbed minister who hides his participation in the sin withering inside, and the jealous old man, Chillingworth, addicted by the madness of revenge (Londhe 3). In The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne…

Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlett Letter, uses figurative speech in his writing to depict Puritan life and to show his views and beliefs of that society. This can be shown through the interaction between Pearl and the young minister, Dimmesdale and how much of a dichotomy in their actions they are but also how similar their expressed in the passage. The passage on page 96 starts off with the minister’s decision to allow Hester to keep her daughter, Pearl. After announcing his decision…

More often than not, heroes are represented as large, muscled men with capes, flying in the sky, working by day, fighting crime by night. Although this is a comic depiction, it is what the majority of children grow up thinking a hero looks like. Similarly, a hero, or heroine, is defined as someone who is “admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities”. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, plays with the idea of heroism, making it a subtle, yet effective…

From the time of King David and Bathsheba to Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affairs have been some of the most popular scandals in history. Most common of the ones we hear of come from well-known names and reputations. Likewise in Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter discovering Hester Prynne’s “partner in crime” was the minister Dimmesdale evidenced Hawthorne’s obvious disagreement with the Puritan’s during this time period. Dimmesdale represents the hypocrisy in organized religion, while the…