The Scarlet letter: In the world of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, he shows the audience a 1600 Puritan society. ... The appearance of the Scarlet Letter is very mysterious. ... The meaning of the Scarlet Letter is also something that gets distorted throughout the book. ... (P.155) This line shows that the view of Hester had changed, and maybe the beliefs of the society that she lived in had changed a little. ... The distortion of the scarlet letter shows how the rest of the story is so distorted. ...

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Symbolism in "The Scarlet Letter", whoa just gave one away! ... Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" contains many symbols, including the forest, Pearl, and the scarlet letter itself, which all contribute to the main theme of sin and its consequences. ... " A squirrel, from the lofty depths of his domestic tree, chattered either in anger or merriment, -- for the squirrel is such a choleric and humorous little personage, that it is hard to distinguish between his moods, -- so he chattered at the child, and flung down a nut upon her head. ... In the begi...

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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 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 Scarlet Letter is wrapped in a deluge of allegorical theories and philosophies. ... Forth peeped at her, out of the pool, with dark gl...

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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author attempts to show the way society casts out individuals simply because their ideas and deeds differ from the common values. ... "Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast as the figure, the body, the reality of sin" (83). ... She barely gets by with the money she gets from her sewing skills, but still she shares what little she has with the indigent. ... "It was debated whether or not the scarlet letter was to be taken off her bosom" (163). ... "Such helpfulness was f...

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Whatever he does, whether he goes on the scaffold and professes his sin, or moves to England with Hester and Pearl, this relationship can not work because in so many ways, Dimmesdale rejects the Scarlet Letter, in both human and supernatural forms, it now rejects him, evidenced by the reactions of Pearl in the last chapter, when she runs to the brook to was her head after she Dimmesdale kisses her. ... Laced between the lines of Hawthorne, among the paths and the scarlet letter, the town and the brook, lay many of the themes in this book, which, during close reading can appear quite easily. ...

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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. ... Even little Pearl represents the "connecting link between the two [Hester and Dimmesdale]." ...

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the letter A is given to the characters Hester and Dimmesdale. ... For Hester, the Scarlet Letter symbolizes her adultery and for Dimmesdale, it is a reminder of his hidden sin. ... The Scarlet Letter portrays the idea that guilt is harsher and more destructive than public punishments. ... Such helpfulness was found in her,-so much power to do, and power to sympathize,-that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification. ... He admits to the community that his sin is the greatest sin, "I stand upon the spot...

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The novel The Scarlet Letter, The Ministers Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown all unite upon this common thread. The opening scene of chapter 2 in The Scarlet Letter describes a gaggle of gossiping women viewing Hester Prynne's punishment. ... But she, -the naughty baggage, -little will she care what they put upon the bodice of her gown! ... They little guessed what deadly purport lurked in those self-condemning words. ... Early on in The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne says "Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,-at her, th...

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A scarlet cloth lies in front of her; it has a very rumpled look, which has sexual implications. ... In the foreground one sees a bright scarlet cloth lying on a dark beach. ... Upon close inspection one can see the canopy is gray and blue striped with thin stripes of scarlet. ... Courbet uses black, gray, a blue gray, and scarlet. ... There is also little lighting in the picture but it is used more effectively than the colors. ...

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Little Women It all begins in the dead of winter; The Christmas Season. ... Little Amy decided to burn it, to get back on her for not taking her to the Theatre. ... As Marmee leaves they all hug, and she says, " I shall miss my little women." ... They have died of scarlet fever. ... Lawrence has given her a brand new piano that was supposed to be a gift for his little girl before she died. ...

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"Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin, for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since " (147). The truth of Hester's scarlet letter changed; it no longer represented her weakness and evil, instead, she was now seen as a hardworking woman who is kind and humble. ... "Throwing his eyes anxiously in the direction of the voice, he indistinctly beheld a form under the trees [...] and so little rel...

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The scarlet letter is a symbol which demonstrates that even when sins are committed, they can be confessed and forgiven. ... Pearl is the living scarlet letter that was created by sin and to her, the letter worn around Hester's neck, is Pearl's way of saying that what Hester did was wrong. ... In that remarkable forest scene in The Scarlet Letter, the long repressed/suppressed sexuality of Hester is suddenly exposed when she releases her hair. ... The scarlet letter had taken over her appearance."Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. ...

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The Metamorphosis of Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are many characters that transform; one of them is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. ... He also clutches his chest a lot in away that reminds Pearl of her mother, Hester's scarlet letter "A" By this point in time Hester Prynne's husband has found out about Dimmesdale's secret and has been tormenting Dimmesdale with it. ... After the two have talked Dimmesdale is relieved and a little happier. ... In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Dimmesdale makes many changes - espe...

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Chapter I: The Prison-Door In this chapter all the town's people are gathered outside the prison. The prison is very old and has a big wooden door with studded iron spikes. They tell us that one of the first things they built in the new colony was a cemetery and a prison. Another important thi...

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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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In Little Women, Alcott writes a fictional story about of four sisters growing up in Concord, MA. ... Both Beth and Lizzie are gentle and soft-spoken, and at an early age die of scarlet fever. ... Louisa May Alcotts mother (Abba) takes the part of a large role in Little Women. ... "Miss Alcotts novel Little Women is an agreeable little story, which in not only very well adapted to the readers for whom it is especially intended, but may also be read with pleasure by an older audience- (Kaplan 16). ... A Review of "Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy", in The Nation, Vol. ...

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"The decision to give up Audrey took a little longer" Baker said regarding their decision to move in his book. (64) Uncle Tom and Aunt Goldie wanted to take her in because of their impossibility to bare children. ... It was good pay; any pay was good pay by then." (75) People were starting to not care for what job they got as long as they had a little income flowing in. ... Times were hard and every little sliver helped. ... Russell also found that people in Newark are a little different from those back home. ... "Children were carried away by diphtheria, scarlet fever, and measles." (37) Ch...

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According to Anne Marie MacNamara, Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter goes through several stages of spiritual growth; preparation, communication, transformation and finally revelation. To further understand why Dimmesdale is so hard on himself we must first Learn a little back ground on Puritanism. ... Then he started to become a little more confident and was able to talk to the people of the town and see how they felt they felt about the whole ordeal. ... Dimmesdale now had a little stronger confidence and was able to talk to the people of the town (Gross 70). ... So through this ...

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In the text, there are several references to Heaven and Hell (the constant evocation of the fire with the "scarlet devils" on the cans, p.162, "Damnation!"... The narrator has this information and gives it to the reader in different places: "walking a little...a stolen horse thirty years ago" p.164. ...

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Where I lived was typical for a middle class family: small, close to school, and near a park. My neighborhood was full of families struggling financially, the same way we were. My father is big in stature; not in a fat way but more in a muscular toned up sort of way. His skin is naturally bronzed, t...

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Her hose were of the finest scarlet red and gartered tight; her shoes were soft and new." ... She shows how little control she has over him: "My fourth husband, he was a reveller, That is to say, he kept a paramour;" Paramour meaning mistress shows that first of all she was not all that desirable any more, and that her man could go out and do what and who he pleased regardless what the Wife of Bath said or wished. ...

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The turf was hemmed with an edge of scarlet geranium and coleus and cast-iron cases painted in chocolate color, standing at intervals along the winding path that led to the sea, looped their garlands of petunia and ivy geranium above the neatly raked gravel. ... When Archer is reintroduced to Olenska "she made way for him by pushing back her chair, and promptly, and a little ostentatiously, with the desire that the whole house should see what he was doing, Archer seated himself at the Countess Olenska's Side". ...

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The people of Medieval English society are seen to many as a culture that was holy and without a doubt moral. In The Canterbury Tales, a story about the flaws of Medieval English society, Chaucer proves otherwise. He writes about how the social status of an individual can be deceiving; ...

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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional British character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published appearance in the 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual, in the short story A Study in Scarlet. ... I always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year" However, Holmes is still fiercely loyal of the few friends he has. ... He is a sad, lonely little man who pretends as if he doesn't care but deep down, is desperate to connect with the world he constantly claims to reject. ...

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A few months after he moved, Thomas caught scarlet fever, a disease that would leave him hard of hearing for the rest of his life. ... He got very irritated by this because it interrupted the experiments he was conducting, so he created a little machine that would automatically send the message every hour. ... He debuts his kinetoscope; using shadows to display an image moving in a little box with movable parts. ...

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