Nathaniel Hawthorne's literature can easily be used as a prime study for psychoanalysis. Freud's ideas and assumptions can be perfectly linked in a psychoanalysis of The Scarlet Letter. ... His ideas about the id, the ego, and the superego are extremely significant when taking a look at characters in The Scarlet Letter. ... Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! ... Freud's theories are especially interesting when applying them to The Scarlet Letter and their characters because it proves that everyone has subconscious yearnings that so...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Nathaniel Hawthorne's literature can easily be used as a prime study for psychoanalysis. Freud's ideas and assumptions can be perfectly linked in a psychoanalysis of The Scarlet Letter. ... His ideas about the id, the ego, and the superego are extremely significant when taking a look at characters in The Scarlet Letter. ... Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! ... Freud's theories are especially interesting when applying them to The Scarlet Letter and their characters because it proves that everyone has subconscious yearnings that so...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Looking Deeper Into the Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a well written book. ... Before the class discussion, I enjoyed the book, but did not feel there was any other symbolism than the scarlet "A" representing Hester's sin. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Secret sin is one of the themes most focused on in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... Although Hester is protagonist, and her sin is very influential, Dimmesdale's sin is probably the most important sin in The Scarlet Letter because it started the whole story. ... Chillingworth's view of confession, which is that each sinner must confess his sin and that if someone does confess his or her sins, that person would be physically healthier, is ironic because his sin is the most severe of all the sins discussed in The Scarlet Letter. ... Even though secret sin is a main...

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• Grade Level: High School

Both Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, show that one person with his or her own views may contradict a society. ... Not many people would go out of their way to help someone else and that is illustrated in the novel The Scarlet Letter. ... As of this, Hester wore the Letter A, which symbolized adultery. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale struggles to overcome sin, guilt, and public shame in Puritan society. ... When Dimmesdale is on the scaffold, it becomes clear that he is beginning to lose his mind, shown when "without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud" (Hawthorne 153). ... While they fight about whether or not Pearl is a devil child and should be taken away from Hester, Dimmesdale is described as, "the young minister at once came forward, pale, and holding his hand over his heart, as was his custom ...

• Word Count: 939
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• Grade Level: High School