During the 19th century Poe and Hawthorne were among the many prominent writers. ... The following pages will examine the way sin affected the Puritan Community in the Scarlet Letter. ... Hawthorne's sensitivity to guilt is clearly present in the Scarlet Letter, as well as some of his other works. ... It wasn't until the publication of his novel The Scarlet Letter in 1850 that Hawthorne became a well-known writer. ... The town first requires Hester to wear the scarlet letter and stand in ignominy on the scaffold. ...

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The Scarlet Letter To the naked eye, the story of The Scarlet Letter appears to just be a well-written love story within a puritan society full of unexpected flips and turns. Upon closer examination, The Scarlet Letter is really filled with obsession, guilt, and morals. ... Hawthorne's ultimate theme in The Scarlet Letter is vengeance amongst all of mankind. ... "It was whispered, by those who peered after her, that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior"(48). ... Pearl was just a smaller version of the scarlet letter. ...

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The Scarlet letter: In the world of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, he shows the audience a 1600 Puritan society. ... The Scarlet Letter is very distorted in its depiction of the appearance of the letter, the meaning of the letter, and the affect that the letter has on other people. The appearance of the Scarlet Letter is very mysterious. ... People view this lady with the "A- as being evil and just not a good Puritan person. ... The Scarlet Letter is very distorted in the appearance of the letter, the meaning of the letter, and the affect that the letter has on other peop...

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Symbolism in the Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne contains abundant symbolism, which is used to unify the novel and add deeper meaning. ... Through the scarlet letter, Hester become a sympathetic heroine, and the Puritan society becomes not only bigoted and joyless, but essentially evil. ... This in turn causes the Puritan view of her letter "A" to change from adultery to ability. ... (Bloom 91-92) Pearl is also greatly affected by the scarlet letter, but in another way. ... During their time in the forest, Hester and Pearl both have different experiences. ...

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the letter A is given to the characters Hester and Dimmesdale. According to the law of the Puritan society and the strict interpretation of the Bible, adultery is one of the deadliest sins that led to the deadliest punishment - execution or corporal punishment. ... 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. ... Afraid of revealing his sin to the Puritan society, ...

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The Scarlet Letter To the naked eye, the story of The Scarlet Letter appears to just be a well-written love story within a puritan society full of unexpected flips and turns. Upon closer examination, The Scarlet Letter is really filled with obsession, guilt, and morals. ... Hawthorne's ultimate theme in The Scarlet Letter is vengeance amongst all of mankind. ... "It was whispered, by those who peered after her, that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior"(48). ... Pearl was just a smaller version of the scarlet letter. ...

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The Puritan community was a dark, strict society, feeling indifferent to the humanity of the woman standing before them on the scaffold, with her infant daughter against her chest. ... During "Another View of Hester," Hawthorne explains to the reader that the scarlet A has yet another layer of meaning, which is in fact another view of Hester. ... Although Hester is clearly not a Puritan, she does show respect for the Puritan code. ... Hester and her scarlet letter never achieve simplicity. ... Another vision of Hester's letter is that of its color, scarlet. ...

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Throughout the course of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne several occurrences of sin are recognized within each of the characters. ... While she was facing a considerable amount of hardship and misfortune during her life in Boston, it was the time in which she truly found her own identity and place in the Puritan society. ... Hester even continues to wear the scarlet letter, no longer because of its negative connotation, but because it played such a prominent part in her life that she does not wish to eliminate. ... Hester choosing to wear the letter was her showcasing her own sin. .....

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During my reading, I spent much of my focus on this idea of the path and its difficulty. ... 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 bro...

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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. The type of shunning that is done by the townspeople against Hester in centuries past by communities is based off of what were considered immoral to society during this particular time period. ... 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 o...

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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. ... Nature offers a happier alternative to the strict and stressful Puritan life. ... Society judges women quickly and without mercy. ......

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He has been reared in a Puritan home. ... During the 1850's Puritan goals were to purify the Church of England (Internet Source 2). ... This is not to suggest that God was absent during this time. ... Unfortunately, as in today's society, many children are exposed to an "absentee" father. ... He even took a knife and carved the letter "A" into his chest. ...

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Evidence of cruelty within the Puritan society is one way Hawthorne disparages the Puritan culture. ... Hawthorne critic of the unkindness within the Puritan society is very subtle, but yet very clear. ... Something as simple as a black piece of crape mixed with a Puritan society can destroy a Minister. ... The answer: the Puritan way of life is a cruel and hypocritical society. ... "The Scarlet Letter- shows the protagonist Hester Prynne segregating herself from society by the famous letter A' sewn on her bosom. ...

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During the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a kind of parliament known as the Estates General composed of representatives of the clergy, the nobility and the common people, had met at irregular intervals. ... The reign of terror, the period of greatest chaos during the French Revolution, showed that liberty is not so easy to earn, many lives were sacrificed when trying to reach it. ... Slavery had changed Southern society so much that the North and the South no longer shared enough in common to exist as a single nation. ... Just as the lack of liberty black people suffered durin...

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