In The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne creates a story where every emotion is shown. ... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. ... Jimmy Eat World's two lines summarize The Scarlet Letter and all the characters, "Someone's gonna ask you what it's all about. ... - These two lines ask all the questions about the book. ... Both The Scarlet Letter and A Praise Chorus explain how life has unexpected twists and turns. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", life is centered around a rigid, pure society in which one is unable to show his or her deepest thoughts and secrets. ... She talks to him about subjects which would never be mentioned in any place other than the forest. ... (p. 188) The questions she asks also are like the well-spoken questions in which Dimmesdale would state during his sermons. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hester Prynne, the leading character of The Scarlet Letter, and Edna Pontellier of The Awakening, are both women with striking similarities and distinctions. ... Additionally both women are in dilemmas about love. ... Edna is very selfish she fails to think about how her actions can affect others, for example the affect of her suicide on her children and husband, Edna is so obsessed about her own rights and needs of trying to become and individual she tramples on other peoples feelings and need. ... Only until recently have women truly obtained equality amongst men and in the eyes of society...

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