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. ... The letter was the symbol of her calling. ... The reaction of the community was contrasting with his prediction, "'The godly youth!' ...

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He can no longer hide behind his secret guilt, but must make public what he did seven years ago. ... 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 ...

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The act of Shunning is viewed in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter when the protagonist Hester Prynne commits adultery in the puritan society. ... This can be directly linked to how Hester was treated for what she did in puritan society in The Scarlet Letter. ... Dimmesdale was shunned by all of Puritan society in the Massachusetts Bay colony. she was forced to stand on a scaffold in front of the townspeople for three hours wearing an embroided Scarlet letter "A" which stood for "Adultery" at that point in the novel. ... In comparison to Ray rice, a football player who was well li...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate