The Scarlet Letter is a wonderful piece of literary work. ... The various types of characters in The Scarlet Letter help create a dim feeling to readers. ... Having Pearl point to the scarlet letter and then toward the heart of Dimmesdale illustrates the significance of his sin to the public eye of the Puritans. ... The Scarlet Letter was a book that met all guidelines and does not require any editing. The Scarlet Letter was a novel that can be beneficial to students in the future. ...

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"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne The extract from "The Scarlet Letter" gives a good view of what life in Salem was like and the way people act towards people's personal issues. ... For example, Hester had committed adultery, and not just being punished by the law, she had to wear "a scarlet letter" to make sure the whole community knew her offence. ... The town is also a civilized, rule-bound space where everything one does is on display and where transgressions are quickly punished, Hester is an example if this, and had the "scarlet letter on her bosom". ... Here, the...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible are both distinctly different works about the Puritan society. The Scarlet Letter is a novel and The Crucible is a play. While The Scarlet Letter deals mainly with the sin of adultery, The Crucible deals mainly with false accusations of witchcraft. ... This reaction showed their trust and devotion to the appointed officials. Though they are two very different stories, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible have similarities. ...

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The Scarlet Letter By: Nathaniel Hawthorne Period 4 Adv. English 11 November 2, 1999 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn begins by dealing with Hester Prynne's crime and sentence. ... Pearl's role in the story, I felt, was the scarlet letter come to life. ... The ending to The Scarlet Letter sends a message of how great the power of confession and unburdening the soul is. ... Bibliography The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn ...

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the letter A is given to the characters Hester and Dimmesdale. ... For Hester, the Scarlet Letter symbolizes her adultery and for Dimmesdale, it is a reminder of his hidden sin. ... The Scarlet Letter portrays the idea that guilt is harsher and more destructive than public punishments. ... The letter was the symbol of her calling. ... The reaction of the community was contrasting with his prediction, "'The godly youth!' ...

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The letter that Hester was forced to wear upon her bosom, the scarlet letter was not only a symbol of her adulterous sin, but of the women herself. ... Other than the scarlet letter, she was a very moral woman whose only joy in life was her daughter Pearl. ... p.46 The Scarlet Letter: A small piece of red cloth, with a capital A embroidered in gold on it. ... The scarlet letter is imposed on Hester as an act of punishment. ... * When thinking about Dimmesdale's opposite public and private reactions to her and Hester, Pearl calls Dimmesdalea strange, sad man.? ...

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The Scarlet Letter was the story of Hester Prynne, an adulteress who lived during the Puritan era, and the pain and shame she endured because of her sin. ... In his novel The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne used diction and certain symbols to display his disgust of the Puritan society. ... Hawthorne's negative tone conveyed his disapproval of the Puritan reaction to Hester's sin, and his tone and diction also alluded to the hypocrisy of the Puritans, for they persecuted sinners while they themselves sinned as well. ... For example, the scaffold, in which "the very ideal of ignominy ...

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In chapters 1-3, Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl are on the scaffold enduring public persecution and humiliation. This is Hester's first public appearance with her child and the scarlet letter on her bosom. ... Dimmesdale says she may remove the scarlet letter she bears upon her chest if she confesses. ... Her statement signifies an early attachment to the letter and declares her plans to willingly endure her punishment. ... " Meanwhile, Pearl and Hester stay by his side, enduring the stunned reactions of the crowd together. ...

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Scarlet Letter And Pearl One of the most complex and elaborate characters in The Scarlet Letter is Pearl, the misbegotten offspring of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. ... The Scarlet Letter. ... "The Scarlet Letter." ... The Scarlet Letter. ... "The Scarlet Letter." ...

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The Scarlet Letter- Effects of Adultery Puritan society had placed great importance on a person's reputation. ... Hester is publicly seen with the scarlet letter when she first comes out of prison. ... The spell that is mentioned is the scarlet letter, "so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom," (p.51). She becomes isolated and the scarlet letter is what isolates her. ... "The Scarlet Letter," is a demonstration of mental cause and effect. ...

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She is sentenced to the scarlet letter 'A' which is known for "adulterer." ... The scarlet letter "was her passport into regions where other woman dared not to tread. ... Through his internal suffering, it is believed that his own scarlet letter is formed. ... She portrays this when she sees that Hester has removed her scarlet letter. ... The novel, The Scarlet Letter, provides numerous examples that demonstrates issues of American identity. ...

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Guilt, the state of having committed an offense, plays a major role in The Scarlet Letter. ... In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne elucidates that although the causes and effects of guilt are usually evil as seen in Roger Chillingworth, good can come from such guiltiness as seen in the characters Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale. Among the most evil characters of the novel, Roger Chillingworth's guilt which is driven by evil, evokes evil as a result in his reactions to it. ... Labeled as a sinner by the community, she is forced to wear the Scarlet Letter A on her chest for t...

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He can no longer hide behind his secret guilt, but must make public what he did seven years ago. ... Whatever he does, whether he goes on the scaffold and professes his sin, or moves to England with Hester and Pearl, this relationship can not work because in so many ways, Dimmesdale rejects the Scarlet Letter, in both human and supernatural forms, it now rejects him, evidenced by the reactions of Pearl in the last chapter, when she runs to the brook to was her head after she Dimmesdale kisses her. ... Laced between the lines of Hawthorne, among the paths and the scarlet letter, the town and ...

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The first few chapters introduce the theme of sin, when they tell the reader about the prison, the scaffold, and how Hester is being publicly condemned for adultery. ... The women of the town criticize her for embroidering the scarlet letter, the symbol of her shame, with such care and in such a flashy manner. ...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, he describes the story as a "tale of human frailty and sorrow."" ... In the Scarlet Letter Roger Chillingworth's major flaw is revenge. ... He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost; but I shall read it on his heart."" (75). ... At this point in the story Chillingworth thinks but is not sure that Dimmesdale is Pearls father however, later in the novel Chillingworth discovers a deformed scarlet letter on the ministers chest his reaction was described as, "Had a man seen old Roger Chillingworth, at that moment of h...

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A Character Analysis of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter Abstract Hester Prynne is the main protagonist and the most complicated character in The Scarlet Letter. ... Among them, The Scarlet Letter has been casting into the limelight. ... Out of the magistrates' mercy, she was not condemned to death for her crime against society and Puritanism, but had to stand on the scaffold for several hours so that the townspeople may see her, the three-month little Pearl and especially the cloth scarlet letter "A" which she wears on her bosom. ... However, this scarlet letter does not flee fro...

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Superficial Moral Systems Exposed in Lord of the Flies, Crime and Punishment, The Scarlet Letter, and Pygmalion "The superficial nature of human moral systems" is a valid concern in society today. ... The manners that are so commonly used in public are rarely practiced in private. ... This concept is not far from what the reaction to any person would be in this situation. ... A perfect example of this human hypocrisy lies in The Scarlet Letter's Arthur Dimmesdale. ... The public opinion is dear to him. ...

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They were also very strict in their obedience to laws, which will later be addressed in reference to society's treatment of the young woman in the novel, The Scarlet Letter. ... In most of his novels and stories, there is a strong display of the Puritan society's reaction to a certain primary character's struggle. ... In The Scarlet Letter, a young woman has committed adultery. ... He made them the villains in The Scarlet Letter and created in Hester a somewhat Transcendental heroine (Waggoner 14). ... "Young Goodman Brown" is a short story that demonstrates hypocrisy i...

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A Burden Will be Lifted The Scarlet Letter is portrayed with profound symbolism and revolves around the idea that hidden guilt causes more suffering than open guilt. ... Hester experiences open guilt through being publicly punished for adultery. ... Chillingworth's first reaction is one of shock, but he quickly suppresses it. ... Seeing as how Dimmesdale's mounting of the scaffold and standing with Hester and Pearl at night will not suffice, Arthur knows that sooner or later the symbolic acceptance of his guilt must actually take place publicly in the daylight. ... It will be duri...

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The act of Shunning is viewed in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter when the protagonist Hester Prynne commits adultery in the puritan society. ... This can be directly linked to how Hester was treated for what she did in puritan society in The Scarlet Letter. ... Dimmesdale was shunned by all of Puritan society in the Massachusetts Bay colony. she was forced to stand on a scaffold in front of the townspeople for three hours wearing an embroided Scarlet letter "A" which stood for "Adultery" at that point in the novel. ... In comparison to Ray rice, a football player who was well li...

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The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel which portrays the message of sin and punishment, through the outcome of an adulterous relationship between Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale. ... When Dimmesdale said, "...methinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it all up in his heart", he delineates the contrasts between the fact that Hester can deal with her pain publicly, while he is forced to keep all of his emotions inside. ... His reaction, however, is not to palliate his suffering by confessin...

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Sin can be felt at unnamable frequencies personally or publicly. ... Similarly, eloquently within the folds of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearl subtly becomes the epitome of sin and the embodiment of unrelenting evil, using her actions and impish notions as a medium. ... The "elf child" as she is referred to in The Scarlet Letter, is by default and meaning, doomed to sin. ... Only an atrocity bred of evil could fathom such a heartless reaction at an age without knowledge. ...

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