Although the Puritan society believes that Hester Prynne is immoral, the actions that she takes shows that she is actually very moral. ... After Hester moves away from the village, the Puritans give her the job of making fine clothing for the upper class. ... Hester never let the clothing be plain for Pearl. ... Hester Prynne does many things to be a good citizen of the Puritan society. Very early, the Puritans find that Hester Prynne has an extraordinary talent for needlework. ...

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The actions of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne were done for the soulful purpose of love; however Puritan's society looked down upon Hester Prynne for the actions of her sins. ... - Within the thirteenth chapter, Another View Of Hester, we the reader begin to learn that the once accusers of Hester Prynne's sin are now changing the contextual meaning of the letter A' that stands on the bosom of Hester Prynne's clothing. ... They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength."" ... This also leads we, the reader, to ...

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Chapter Two Hester Prynne is first described from two different perspectives. ... Such words and imagery complement the assumed beauty that Hester Prynne seems to have as she walks out of the prison with her child clutched in her grasp. I personally think that Hester Prynne is a passionate person, proud and strong, unyielding to the beliefs and the acceptable living standards of the Puritans. ... Hawthorne's sympathetic attitude toward Prynne, a victim Puritan society, is best exemplified by having her associated to the rosebush, and the Puritans to the prison. ... Hawthorne includ...

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John Proctor and Hester Prynne, two characters derived from a seventeenth century, puritan community have interesting views on life. ... Hester prynne comes from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... Although sharing these occurrences, John Proctor and Hester Prynne demonstrate their different outlooks on life. ... Hester cares for the poor by bringing them food and clothing. ... John Proctor and Hester Prynne are characters ahead of their time. ...

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The Scarlet Letter is about a Puritan woman in Boston, Massachusettes, named Hester Prynne who commits adultry and is sentenced to wear a scarlet A on her breast. In result of the affair Hester Prynne had a little girl, Pearl. ... The punishment received by Hester in the novel was based upon the Puritan religious, social, and governmental beliefs, structured into a single ideology, which was formed from their English experience and complete commitment to religion. ... She cares for the poor and brings them food and clothing. ... She can make any kind o...

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This is just what the puritans thought about life. ... Hester Prynne follows the puritan idea on idleness. In chapter 5 page 56, Hawthorne describes Hester making richly embroidered clothing at all hours for public officials. "Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves"- "-there was a frequent and characteristic demand for such labor as Hester Prynne could supply." ... "I have been watching at a death-bed," answered Hester Prynne;- " at Governor Winthrop's death-bed ." ...

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Hester's Isolation and Alienation in The Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale have committed adultery, an unacceptable sin during the Puritan times. ... The letter "A" was to show Hester Prynne as an adulteress and as an immoral human being. ... Her clothing and the way she wore her hair changed from being beautiful and revealing to plain and common. ... "From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew...

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In the beginning of the book Hester Prynne is publicly humiliated as a punishment for breaking a Puritan belief and one of the Ten Commandments; adultery. ... Fear was the motivation that drove the Puritans to exclude Hester Prynne from society. ... When the community banished Hester Prynne they succeeded in upholding their morality but lost an individual. ... This closed mindedness could only see hatred for Hester Prynne and the need to identify her with the letter "A". ... They said that it meant "Able": so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength" (156). ...

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In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, a sinner, is mistreated by the Puritan society. Hester Prynne is publicly humiliated as a punishment for her transgression against one of the Ten Commandments, adultery. ... Fear was the motivation that drove the Puritans to exclude Hester Prynne from society. ... They said that it meant "Able": so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strenght"(156). Hester is "Able" to overcome hardship, live through the shame, and thrive in the hypocritical Puritan society. ...

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They all think that they live with such perfect values that they all jump on Hester Prynne for having this baby out of wedlock. ... The greatest amount of distortion goes to Hester Prynne's Scarlet Letter, which is her burden for her sin. ... They almost seem to be jealous of Hester Prynne's beauty. ... However, seven years later Hester Prynne was viewed as being very different. ... They Said that it meant "Able-; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength.""...

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"The Scarlet Letter" tells the story of Hester Prynne's sin and all that came about from her daughter's being born because of adultery. The Puritan society, Dimmesdale's, and Hester's story takes place in a strict, hypocritical, and judgmental one. Their adulterous sin was one the puritans believed should have been punished by death. ... Hester was forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" on all her clothing, as a symbol for her sin and shame. ... He carves an "A" on his chest, just like the one Hester is forced to wear on her clothing. ...

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Hester Prynne was the poor soul who fell victim to this sin of unforgiveness and paid dearly for her acts of passion, but Hester was not alone in this act of sin. Hester Prynne had a significant other whose name was kept secret, because of the high social status he held in the community. ... (p.1368) The Puritans because of Dimmesdale's education put him on a pedestal so high that there was no room for error. ... (p.1369) Dimmesdale had the Puritans crowd at such awe that even the baby couldn't resist his intellectually prepared speeches. ... Next Hawthorne portrays Dimmesdale ...

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The women in Hester's community actually felt threatened by Hester's presence. ... Had a Catholic been there looking upon Hester and baby Pearl he would have interpreted the scene very differently than the Puritans had. ... She has also become an outcast, which in turn makes her different from the average Puritan child. ... But in Puritan society nothing was discussed; it was proposed by a lonely red letter: Purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne's? If we followed t...

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Although there were not any reports on specific individuals convicted of adultery in Puritan history, a 1694 law in Salem stated that women convicted of adultery were required to wear a capital 'A' on their clothing. ... Disbanding her previous marriage, Hester Prynne had an affair with another man. In Puritan society, adultery was clearly unacceptable and looked down upon. ... Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne, is the symbol of the illegitimate relationship Hester had and is considered a sin in Puritan society. ... Hester Prynne viewing Pearl as a blessing is proven when the rel...

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The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a story about Hester Prynne, a woman who commits a sin. ... Hester Prynne's sin is adultery. ... This sin is regarded very seriously by the Puritans and is often punishable by death. ... Pearl the product of Hester's sin, is usually dressed in red clothing, representing sin. ... The Puritan's describe Satan as the Black Man in the forest. ...

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The only "crime" she commits is one that is based on the laws and morals of the Puritan society. Although adultery, in the eyes of Puritans, is seen as a horrendous crime, if it is out of love it contradicts the actual crime, which is to go against one's spouse as an act of spite. ... They said that it meant "Able"; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength" (p.145). ... She always dresses Pearl in the most colorful clothing of very fine cloth. ... Hester takes no shame in her actions. ...

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Americans started to shift there focus from a very strict religion known as Puritanism and started looking at the things of nature and how they related to religion and the unknown. ... One of the most complex and elaborate characters in The Scarlet Letter is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Hester dresses Pearl in clothing that is made of a fine crimson red velvet. ... Hester shows how she is trying to conform to the Puritan way of thinking and seeing Pearl as a symbol of the guilt she should feel and how she should see what Pearl really is(Baym 93). ... At one p...

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The characters who are affected by the letter are Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Pearl, and Hester Prynne (Schneider). The scarlet letter is a sign by which the colonial authority seeks to fix the crime of adultery and the criminal, Hester Prynne. The "A" both indicates, yet hinders the Puritan community's authority over Hester's identity. ... (Bloom 13-14, 97, 100) The person that is affected most by the scarlet letter is Hester Prynne, for many very obvious reasons. ... The only times she even comes into the city is to sell her very well-crafted clothing. ...

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Hester Prynne leaves that community to reside in isolation with her illegitimate child. ... It is placed on Hester by the Puritans to give her shame and to mark her as an "adulterer." ... Hester Prynne, because she wears a sign of shame on the surface of her clothing, cannot feign innocence; consequently she has a greater potential for salvation and peace"(James 2). ... Indeed, this is the way the Puritans view Hester. ... It is in this fashion that all of the Puritans are described. ...

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Hester is also maternal with respect to society: she cares for the poor and brings them food and clothing. ... Dimmesdale - Arthur Dimmesdale, like Hester Prynne, is an individual whose identity owes more to external circumstances than to his innate nature. ... The Scarlet Letter defines the relationship between the individual and society through Hester's alienation from Puritan Boston caused by the sin she committed, and subsequently the scarlet A she wore on her bosom. Hawthorne's Hester Prynne is a common character among Romantic writers; a rebel who refuses to conform to society&...

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PLOT Clutching her baby to her chest, the beautiful and poised Hester Prynne stands on the scaffold in the square of the small town of Boston. ... The first is Arthur Dimmesdale, the leader of the local Puritan church and Hester's minister. ... She also makes Pearl brightly colored and extravagant clothing. ... Hester Prynne, the bearer of the scarlet letter in public, is the central character of the book. ... CHARACTERS Major Characters Hester Prynne - the protagonist of the novel who is an English woman and the wife of Roger Chillingworth. ...

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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 lovely dresses and her beauty cause her to be viewed as even stranger from the other typical Puritan children ,whom are dressed in traditional clothing. As a result, she is accepted only by nature and animals, and ostracized by the other Puritan children. ... Pearl and nature are referred to as not conforming to Puritan society. For the Puritan's sought to destroy (human) nature, and in the Puritan's ey...

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Chapter One: The Prison Door Summary A large crowd of Puritans stands outside of the prison, waiting for the door to open. ... Several of the women begin to discuss Hester Prynne, and soon vow that Hester would not have received such a light sentence for her crime if they had been the judges. ... Hester spends hours clothing Pearl in the richest garments she can find, even though Hawthorne comments that Pearl would appear just as beautiful in any garment. ... Having been scorned by the Puritans all her young life, Pearl is positively wrathful when other children approach her, going so far a...

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