With this precision, Nathaniel Hawthorne structured his novel, The Scarlet Letter. ... In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses evocative names to portray the characters' inner self and what they represent in the story. ... Hawthorne shows that this name has two meanings, but only one is used to describe the importance of Pearl's existence. ... Hawthorne uses Pearl's name, in this sense, to express that Hester gave all she had for her child. ... From the very beginning of the book, Hawthorne portrays this character in a shady light. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne used his writing skills to appropriately show the strict intolerant ways of the disciplined Puritan America of 1850, with his novel The Scarlet Letter. ... She continues to wear the scarlet letter there. ... The Scarlet Letter is overflowing with symbolism. Understanding Hawthorne's symbols by themselves is key to understanding The Scarlet Letter as a novel. The Scarlet Letter "A" is the central symbol of the novel. ...

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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne strategically structures the story around three very crucial scaffold scenes. ... Hawthorne also connects Hester's openly displayed shame with Dimmesdale's secret shame by having them both touch the stop where the scarlet letter is simultaneously. ... While on the scaffold, they see a meteor in the sky that resembles a red letter "A". ... He shows them the scarlet letter he bears. ...

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The Scarlet Letter Part two: Formal Literary Response 1.a. Identify and describe both the time and place of The Scarlet Letter. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Arthur Dimmesdale, and old minister, deals with the pain caused by his sin and dies in the end. ... In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Hester, the main character has to live with a scarlet letter on her bosom, which lets others know about her sin. ... Identify a major theme of The Scarlet Letter. ...

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In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is an antagonist. ... Without Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter, there wouldn't be much of a story to tell. ... In The Scarlet Letter, the antagonist is Roger Chillingworth. ...

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The Scarlet Letter By: Nathaniel Hawthorne Period 4 Adv. English 11 November 2, 1999 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn begins by dealing with Hester Prynne's crime and sentence. ... Pearl's role in the story, I felt, was the scarlet letter come to life. ... The ending to The Scarlet Letter sends a message of how great the power of confession and unburdening the soul is. ... Bibliography The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn ...

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The Effects Of Sin In The Scarlet Letter It is a fact that in time, we all have committed sins. ... The Scarlet Letter is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne which revolves around the theme of sin. ... When the townspeople became aware of what Hester has done, they forced her to wear a sign of punishment, the scarlet letter. ... The theme of The Scarlet Letter is interesting because it can be put into terms in today's world. The Scarlet Letter is a timeless novel because it deals with sin, punishment, revenge, and guilt; emotions that will be felt by generations to come....

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The Scarlet Letter One belief that people live by is that evil is the nature of mankind, yet there are others that feel man has good intentions but those intentions can be overrun by the devil. Nathaniel Hawthorne points out that the former is true of all people in the novel The Scarlet Letter. ... Like Hawthorne, I believe that evil is the nature of man but that there are different magnitudes of evil; some choose to fight it, like Hester, and some choose to give in, like Chillingworth. In the novel, Hester received a scarlet letter, "A," for her sins, which she had to wear upon her c...

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Suffering is a major theme in The Scarlet Letter; all the characters are affected by their own agony. Nathaniel Hawthorne suggests that suffering is necessary to be remorseful. ... She illustrates this in the making of her scarlet letter, " fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!" ... He finds the father when he " laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment..." seeing a symbol on Dimmesdale's chest that constitutes the sin of the scarlet letter. ... The novel, The Scarlet Letter, exhibits many different themes. ...

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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale has committed the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne. ... She is made an outcast and to show this he was forced to wear the letter "A" for adulterer upon her chest which forced her to live with the guilt and shame openly. ... Pearl first points to the scarlet letter on Hester's chest then she points to the reverend's chest. ...

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This quote clearly reminds a reader of a main character in the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Hawthorne writes, "He had begun an investigation, as he imagined, with the severe and equal integrity of a judge, desirous only of truth, even as if the question involved no more than the air-drawn lines and figures of a geometrical problem, instead of human passions, and wrongs inflicted on itself." ... This is what makes Chillingworth diabolical and, in Hawthorne's eyes, the greatest sinner." ― Nathaniel Hawthorne Roger Chillingworth has committed many si...

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Guilt in Puritan Society The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, deals with crime, punishment, and guilt in Puritan society. ... Hester's sin plays a major role in leading on the sins of others in The Scarlet Letter. ... (Hawthorne 82). ... The most least guilty of the characters in The Scarlet Letter has to be Chillingworth. ... The Scarlet Letter shows that there are consequences for the actions we take....

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the story about Hester Prynne, a woman who commits adultery and is filled with many feelings, including pride, surrounding that sin. ... Lack of insight leads people to make bad choices, and there are several examples in the book, The Scarlet Letter. ... He whips himself, and he engraves a letter A on his bare chest. ... After years of helping, serving and sympathizing with the townspeople, the scarlet letter A on her chest is viewed as able rather than adulteress. "Such helpfulness was found in her,-so much...that many people refused to interpret t...

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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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There are many complex emotions displayed in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... He is the long-lost husband of Hester Prynne: a woman charged with adultery and forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her chest for the rest of her life. ...

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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne similarly develops the concepts of guilt and the freedom gained by confession. ... Hester also reveals that this embrace covered her scarlet letter, but that " wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm,"with a glance that would not be abashed - (46). ... According to The Scarlet Letter: A Student Casebook , however, " The Minister's Vigil' (Chapter 12) takes place at night when the purpose of the scaffold is controverted, becoming a place of concealment rather than expo...

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