In the gothic novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorn carefully interlaces the theme of good and evil throughout the complex characters of Chillingworth, Hester, and Pearl. ... Hester's goodness is expressed through her willingness, "to give her little substance to every demand of poverty; even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or garments wrought for him by fingers that could have embroidered a monarch's robe " (147). ... Hester gives up the little she has for those she feels need the food or clothing mo...

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Demonic Child In Hawthorne's novel the Scarlet Letter the character Pearl is the product of sin. ... For example when the government tried taking little Pearl from Hester one reason she was able to stay because every time Hester looked at her she was reminded of her sin. ...

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It was then she decided not to tell [Richard] yet about [his child John]. ...That night [Richard] cut his wrists with his razor and he was found... dead among the scarlet sheets." ... The little things add up to the one big issue for John, his father resents him. ...

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By speaking to God in his diary he says, "I find my heart prone to take secret pleasure in thinking how much I do for others good: but lord how little of it is done for thee." ... In the Scarlet Letter Hester mentions a Black man who gives her the scarlet letter on her chest. ...

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1 An Absent Father The impact of a fatherless home has consequences that sometimes cannot be realized until much later in life. In addition, when a father who is in the ministry, commits a grievous sin, it affects not only his family's views but the...

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