Hawthorne's Views of the Puritan Culture "The principal action of The Scarlet Letter occurs in the Boston of 1640's, a somber, gray, violently moral community founded as a kind of Puritan utopia." ... Though there are also many examples of Hawthorne's distaste for the culture directly from the text. ... Another negative aspect of Puritan life that Hawthorne brings up in the text is one which takes place in the church, the place most holy and revered in their time. ... Clearly representing the Puritans in a positive light was not a very prominent thought in Hawthorne'...

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That being said, Nathanial Hawthorne, in The Scarlet Letter, straddles the line between the two realms and creates a 'grey area' with characters that can exist in both realms by means of using ideas from both Romanticism and Realism. The Scarlet Letter can be considered as Romanticism in several different aspects especially when it comes to exotic settings, symbolism, and supernatural elements. ... The Scarlet Letter happens in the wilderness on the outer parts of civilised humanity. ... For example, the most frequent symbol in the novel is the scarlet letter 'A' itself,...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, is a classic tale of human frailty and sin and the hardships that are caused by a single mistake. ... At the same time, The Scarlet Letter, tells the story of one woman's struggle to find meaning in living after disobeying the highly regarded word of God. ... The Scarlet Letter uses dark romanticism as Hawthorne attempts to explain the sinfulness of human nature and why people act as they do. ... It [the letter] was revealed!" ... The obvious symbol is the letter A on Hester's chest. ...

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Hawthorne's Views of the Puritan Culture "The principal action of The Scarlet Letter occurs in the Boston of 1640's, a somber, gray, violently moral community founded as a kind of Puritan utopia." ... Though there are also many examples of Hawthorne's distaste for the culture directly from the text. ... Another negative aspect of Puritan life that Hawthorne brings up in the text is one which takes place in the church, the place most holy and revered in their time. ... Clearly representing the Puritans in a positive light was not a very prominent thought in Hawthorne'...

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"The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" in 1850 in the highly religious area of New England. ... "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne has many different themes contained in the novel, but the themes of Puritanism vs. ... The Scarlet Letter is chock full of symbolism. ... Not only Hester, but also the physical scarlet letter, the badge of shame, is shown through the author's tone and word choice as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece attached with gold thread, thus giving the scarlet letter A a majestic tone when Hester wears it. ... The Sca...

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In the novel, The scarlet letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne arrives at colony where she is accused of adultery due to a love affair with minister Dimmesdale. ... She is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter, which symbolizes her sin. ... The characters actions, throughout the text, convey the themes of hypocrisy and the inherent viciousness of the human spirit. ... Hester proves her courage when the chance to flee her sentence and remove the scarlet letter, is presented to her . ... Unlike Dimmesdale, Hester is able to accept her sin by wearing the Scarlet Letter. ...

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Much of the novel, "The Scarlet Letter" centers around determining the identity of Hester's lover, Pearl's father. ... Using plot points, dialogue, or other specific descriptions from the text, pick out at least three places from the first half of the novel (through "The Leech") that lead the reader to believe what is ultimately true: that Arthur Dimmesdale has a very big secret. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorn, the author of "The Scarlet Letter," lived from 1804 to 1864. ... People such as Hester Prynne, who committed adultery with Author Dimmesdale in "The Scarlet Letter," were made well known to the public eye. ... The intended audience for "The Scarlet Letter" could be anyone interested in the way people interacted with one another during the late 1840s. ... The way in which women were thought of during that time explains the subject of "The Scarlet Letter.... The writing in "The Scarlet Letter" was not only based upon narrative, but...

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Sin and It's Many Ways The author of The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne, has different views of how one doesn't have to hold sin inside of them forever. ... The Scarlet Letter deals with the adultery sin of Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the revenge of Roger Chillingsworth, and the towns people's attitude toward Hester and her daughter Pearl. ... She had to wear a scarlet Letter 'A' on her chest. ... By Dimmedale holding his sin in, he stood their and watched Hester stand with his baby in her hands right next to the scarlet letter that was the...

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In Speak, Anderson's use of rhetorical devices like allusions, symbolism, and metaphors and similes helps to create the texts depressed tone that later change to hopeful. Using allusions like Picasso's cubism and The Scarlet Letter help to show Melinda's internal pain. ... In English class, Melinda reads The Scarlet Letter. ... In The Scarlet Letter, the main character, Hester, is scorned by her community and forced to wear a big letter A on her clothes because she committed adultery. ... Melinda, inside her, carries an invisible scarlet letter because she has not learned to dea...

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American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. ... Recent texts have challenged Matthiessen's notion of an American Renaissance, pointing out that the work of major American authors of this period did not occur in a vacuum. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne: many of Hawthorne's stories are set in Puritan New England, and his greatest novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850), has become the classic portrayal of Puritan America. ...

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Color is often symbolic, as with the red passion of the Scarlet Letter in the novel of that title. ... The more evocative a text, the more the reader must do the work of finding meaning within the text. ...

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For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its Constitution to the daily practices of its citizens--is a response to the absent/objectified presence of the black Other or, in her words, "to a dark, abiding, signing Africanist presence" (5). ...

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My opinion is that E-books will slowly infiltrate society, eventually replacing much of the printed text as we begin to rely on the electronic medium for our literature and information. ... These free websites had small collections of e-books, though much of the collected works was composed of books considered classics, such as "Tom Sawyer" and "The Scarlet Letter." ...

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