Scarlet Letter Summary: The story revolves around Hester, a bearer of the scarlet letter. ... The theme within the story is unconfessed sins leads to the destroying of the soul. ... asked Pearl, stopping short. ... The passage explains how it is different between the city and nature. Nature is only governed by the rules of Mother Nature, where things happen freely without boundaries of human control. ...
" (MBV pg32) This details the fear of the unknown that permeates the innermost domain of the human psyche. ... Hawthorne's short stories both focus on distrust of the community, be it the community expressing misgivings about the protagonist, or vice versa. ... This idea is shown across many of Hawthorne's stories. ... He investigates human sin, human nature and hypocrisy. His novels The Scarlet letter, and his short stories Young Goodman Brown and The Minister's Black Veil all unite with similar themes as Hawthorne examines human interactions relating to punishment, reli...
Dealing with guilt and the difference between Nature and Civilization, two themes in this novel, are dealt with in this passage. ... But he leaped across the plashy places, thrust himself through the clinging underbrush, climbed the ascent, plunged into the hollow, and overcame, in short, all the difficulties of the track, with an unweariable activity that astonished him. ... Throughout this story, the character of Reverend Mr. ... In this book, Nature possesses its own set of rules, allowing people to act differently than they may back in society. ... Again, the path plays a role in the the...
