There are many images of truth shown in Hawthorne's novel, "The Scarlet Letter." ... Even in certain passages of the novel, she is shown as being ahead of her times, being born to early is this puritan society. ... She shows this through her scarlet letter, and she insists on it being exposed. To conclude, there are many situations in the Scarlet Letter where truth is shown, exposed and hidden. The Puritan society in which the characters live in do their own part to show or hide the truth as well. ...

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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. ... Unfortunately, Puritan society did not permit this expression, so characters had to use different ways to relieve themselves. ... In the Puritan society, individuality is stressed among many other things. ... This is possibly one of the reasons that Puritans won't accept these displays, because the society is so socially oriented. . ... Puritan society can be harsh and crippling to one's inner self. ...

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The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a story about Hester Prynne, a woman who commits a sin. ... She comes to a point where she cannot go out during daylight. ... Hawthorne uses many symbols throughout The Scarlet Letter. ... Red most obviously represents Hester's sin, as shown by her scarlet letter. ... Hawthorne also uses black and darkness as symbols throughout The Scarlet Letter. ...

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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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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. ... It's during this journey that the great moral crisis in Huck's life occurs. ... Not many people would go out of their way to help someone else and that is illustrated in the novel The Scarlet Letter. ... During the seventeenth century, in the town of Boston, Puritans went by the Bible, especially the Eighth Commandment "Thou shall not commit adultery." As of this, Hester wore the Letter A, which symbolized adu...

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Evidence of this is seen throughout American history, from the Puritan era onward. ... Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorrence nature of the Puritans. ... With that, almost every woman in town is accused of being a witch, and the cycle continues.43 Another important example of hysterical paranoia from the Puritan era is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This novel does not deal so much with witches as it does with the Black Man, which "is a traditional American name for the Devil."44 In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne co...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale struggles to overcome sin, guilt, and public shame in Puritan society. ... At one point, Dimmesdale goes to the scaffold during the night to confess his sins, shows signs of his state mental weakening. ... Dimmesdale thinks of his sin as not showing loyalty to God; However, he avoids confessing his sin due to the fear of judgement, and losing his upheld reputation in the society. ... During the meeting his eyes are described at dark and trouble, expressing how guilty he is for troubling Hester with a child that he can n...

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