With this precision, Nathaniel Hawthorne structured his novel, The Scarlet Letter. ... Hawthorne shows that this name has two meanings, but only one is used to describe the importance of Pearl's existence. ... Hawthorne uses Pearl's name, in this sense, to express that Hester gave all she had for her child. ... From the very beginning of the book, Hawthorne portrays this character in a shady light. ... Perhaps Hawthorne is trying to express that the names and characters within his book can serve as symbols in life. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne used his writing skills to appropriately show the strict intolerant ways of the disciplined Puritan America of 1850, with his novel The Scarlet Letter. ... Understanding Hawthorne's symbols by themselves is key to understanding The Scarlet Letter as a novel. ... Towards the end of her life, the letter grows to mean "Angel", and "the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness"(Hawthorne 229) and it was even "looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too." ( Hawthorne 260). ... Hawthorne frequently refers to how Pearl is ...

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This quote clearly reminds a reader of a main character in the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Hawthorne writes, "He had begun an investigation, as he imagined, with the severe and equal integrity of a judge, desirous only of truth, even as if the question involved no more than the air-drawn lines and figures of a geometrical problem, instead of human passions, and wrongs inflicted on itself." ... This is what makes Chillingworth diabolical and, in Hawthorne's eyes, the greatest sinner." ― Nathaniel Hawthorne Roger Chillingworth has committed many si...

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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne strategically structures the story around three very crucial scaffold scenes. ... Hawthorne also connects Hester's openly displayed shame with Dimmesdale's secret shame by having them both touch the stop where the scarlet letter is simultaneously. ...

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What's more important in a novel, the main character of the story or the conflict? Often in works of literature, there are characters-other than the main character-whose presence in the work is essential. In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is an antagonist. The antagonist ...

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Guilt in Puritan Society The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, deals with crime, punishment, and guilt in Puritan society. The main characters include Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Reverend Dimmesdale. All of the characters undergo a certain degree of crime, guilt, and...

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Suffering is a major theme in The Scarlet Letter; all the characters are affected by their own agony. Nathaniel Hawthorne suggests that suffering is necessary to be remorseful. Suffering ruins Roger Chillingworth, while it aids Hester Prynne in becoming rueful. When Arthur Dimmesdale finally confes...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Arthur Dimmesdale, and old minister, deals with the pain caused by his sin and dies in the end. ... In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Hester, the main character has to live with a scarlet letter on her bosom, which lets others know about her sin. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne points out that the former is true of all people in the novel The Scarlet Letter. ... Like Hawthorne, I believe that evil is the nature of man but that there are different magnitudes of evil; some choose to fight it, like Hester, and some choose to give in, like Chillingworth. ... Hawthorne describes it as "The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment, that, hitherto, had always covered it even from the professional eye" (49). ... Hawthorne illustrates this event when he remarks, "Now, there was ...

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Secret sin is one of the themes most focused on in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... Hawthorne shows his disapproval of secret sins by the pain that each character endures and by the fact that each character dies in the end of the story. ... By freeing Dimmesdale as soon as he confesses, Hawthorne is showing his support for confession. ... Hawthorne said it best when he wrote, "Be true. ...

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The Effects Of Sin In The Scarlet Letter It is a fact that in time, we all have committed sins. The severity of the punishment is very difficult to agree on though. Some people feel that sinners should be punished severely no matter how little the sin was. Many other people feel that a person...

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Roger Chillingworth: Friend or Fiend? There are many complex emotions displayed in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. A prominent one is shown in the character of Roger Chillingworth. He is the long-lost husband of Hester Prynne: a woman charged with adultery and forced to wear a scarl...

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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. ... Bibliography The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn ...

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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale has committed the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne. The story begins with Hester coming out of a jail and being put on the scaffold for the sin she has committed with the cursed child in hand. The town is ashamed a...

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When faced with a decision in life, big or small, people try to make the best choices. However, despite good intentions, people often make poor choices. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the story about Hester Prynne, a woman who commits adultery and is filled with many feelings, includi...

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