Thomas Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson was a religious leader who was born in England in 1951. She was killed in 1643 in an Indian raid killing in the state of New York which wss in the colony of Mid-Atlantic. Anne Hutchinson fought for women’s rights and she gave many girls and women hope that they might have rights again as shown by this quote, “ From the early Christian era, female activism in religious life gave some women high visibility, thus preserving their voices in the historical record. The splintering of…

The Scarlet Letter, created by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 is story about a strong young women named Hester Prynne who is being punished in front of her entire Puritan community in Massachusetts Bay Colony for committing adultery with a town minister. Because of her sins committed, she is now sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom to mark her shame because of her choice to have a love affair with a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout the whole story, Hester can be seen as a…

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing in order to broadcast to the community that she has sinned. Throughout the novel the letter’s meaning begins to change. While it originally stood for “Adulterer”, it has begun to stand for “Able” instead, due to Hester’s acceptance of her sin and talent in embroidery. In the beginning of the novel after Hester is convicted and forced to wear the “A”, she is entirely shunned and scorned…

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne advances the central ideas…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne adulteress Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet ‘’A’’ to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is filled with gilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth seeks revenge. Even though Hester ends the story as a heroine,she plays a victim throughout via extreme societal judgement. After all, she is forced to wear the scarlet ‘’A’’ Hester wears it on her chest with her head held high on the scaffold. As she walks through the…

What is The Scarlet Letter about? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel about a woman named Hester Prynne who committed the sin of adultery and was sent to prison for it. She was required to wear an embroidered “A”, standing for adultery, on all of her clothes so people would know what she had done. When she had the baby, it was named Pearl. She was forced into standing on a scaffold with her baby as a public humiliation. While she being publicly humiliated, her husband, Roger…

Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne writes his main character, Hester Prynne, loosely based on the real life Puritan dissenter, Anne Hutchinson. However, although Hutchinson is the main inspiration for Prynne, Hawthorne also wrote his own personality into that of Hester Prynne, making her a sort of cross between the characters of Hawthorne and Hutchinson. When she first appears in the novel, Hester Prynne is being taken from the jailhouse to a raised scaffolding in the town square…

The past of America is portrayed in both The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F. Karlsen and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, giving us a better perspective into our past. Puritan New England sets the stage for the two novels because the society is what shapes the characters and the events of both novels. Both novels show relations with Puritan society, sin, and women 's sexuality. However, the portrayal of the different sides of Puritan America and the focus of the novels are…

The justification behind the concept of punishment takes many different forms. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the primary rationale behind the Puritans’ punishment of Hester Prynne, the accused adulteress, is retributive, in proportional to the nature of the transgression. The Puritans intend their punishment of ostracism and forced visibility of the letter “A” to match Hester’s crime of adultery by shaming her with a sense of damnation. However, ironically this punishment brings an…

Nathaniel Hawthorne in his gothic romance novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850), depicts the life and the hypocrisy of the Puritan communities in the colonial days. In the novel, protagonist Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A on her bosom to mark the guilt adulterous sin she committed with Arthur Dimmesdale, a Puritan minister, while her thought-to-be long gone husband, Roger Chillingworth, is on the hunt to seek revenge. Hawthorne’s use of dramatic irony builds suspense and tension as he divulges…