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Clark Bolding Mrs. O’Neal AP English Language and Composition-4 14 November 2015 The Scarlet Letter Writing about Reading Defense of Passages Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet Letter contains many overarching themes throughout the book. The author uses the themes to teach the reader a moral lesson. The main theme of the scarlet letter is sin, which causes many other ideas such as isolation and guilt as well as many others. The Scarlet letter is about a woman named Hester Prynne who cheats…

A Post Away From Shame Journalist, Jon Ronson, in his article, How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s life, interviews victims who are suffering from publicly exposed ridicule. Ronson uses the story of Justine Sacco, someone who has been extremely publicly shamed, to examine the process of public shaming. He uses pathos to sympathize with those who have been publicly shamed. Ronson used the rhetorical appeal of ethos to form a connection with those who has judged and or considered the…

A Scarlet Punishment with Positive Consequences Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter explores how the human condition and sin clash. Placing the characters in Puritan Boston, Hawthorne reveals the hypocrisy of a theocratic government, especially when it comes to punishment. Hester Prynne has committed a great sin, which coincides as a malicious crime in such a government, and is punished accordingly. Or is she? Her punishment consists of public humiliation that will be paraded on her chest…

In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne the thought of sin is exhibited by the telling of a woman who has committed adultery against her missing husband and how not only her husband, but her husband and the man she loves struggle with the decisions they have made. The author shows this through the symbolic meaning of their names,their sins, and how their decisions affect them. Names have a symbolic meaning that can help the reader understand why the author chose that name. In Nan Lei’s…

Symbolism in literature is used to convey ideas, themes or certain qualities to the reader, by using symbols that are different from their literal meaning. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter uses several key symbols throughout the novel to both structure and give symbolic meaning to the book. In particular, Hawthorne uses the sunshine as a symbol of happiness and freedom, the scaffold as the structure to the novel, and the letter A, the biggest symbol in the book, to represent…

Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter to tell the story of Hester, who had a child out of adultery with the man whom she loved. Early in this story conflict builds with Hester realizing that her husband isn’t lost at sea. While the story transpired her husband slowly discovered the truth behind the sin of the Scarlet Letter. Hester and the ones she loved developed together throughout the whole story.The Scarlet letter focused on a sin committed by Hester and she was given the letter “A”. This…

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…

Victims of public shame, such as Monica Lewinsky, Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Justine Sacco from “Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence” are humiliated following the disclosure of their secrets, harassed by critics of the incident, and have spoiled reputations based on one broadcasted mistake, therefore, public shame should be left in the past. Victims of public shame face humiliation following the disclosure of their secrets because their actions are…

Kayla Kelly Mrs Melisse Aiello English III Honors November 2, 2016 Hester Prynne: Slut or Feminist Icon? The thing women have yet to learn is that nobody gives you power, you just take it. ~Roseanne Barr. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester shines as a feminist throughout the story. A feminist is described as having the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities and partake in organized activity in support of women 's rights and…