In the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a number of themes but the most important and significant are guilt, alienation, and redemption. ... Prynne is to wear a red scarlet letter, the letter A. ... Hawthorne uses symbolism to show the alienation of Prynne by making her wear this bright red scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. ... Hawthorne redeems his guilt by writing the Scarlet Letter. ... Hawthorne has a number of themes in the Scarlet Letter, but the most significant are guilt, alienation and redemption. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nathaniel Hawthorne is even related to Judge Hawthorne from The Crucible. In this essay, I will compare and contrast The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible in themes relating to both. ... Thus it becomes related to Nathaniel Hawthorne's book whose entire plot revolves around the sin of adultery. ... Throughout the span of The Scarlet Letter Dimmesdale has to suffer, egged on by Chillingworth, over his terrible sin of adultery. ... The wilderness and town, the human conscience and adultery, at least in The Scarlet Letter, were critical to the structure of the novels and made the foc...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne proves this point in his novel "The Scarlet Letter". ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter", the people of the community's true characters reveal themselves when in chapter 11 page 99, Reverend Dimmesdale confess's that he is a sinner like them. ... In chapter 5 page 56, Hawthorne describes Hester making richly embroidered clothing at all hours for public officials. ... Hawthorne describes this in chapter 7 page 72, with this "a large pewter tankard"-"frothy remnant of a recent draught ale." ... Nathaniel Hawthorne showed us tha...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand, The Scarlet Letter was an old-fashion, fiction novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... (Hawthorne 130) This quote refers to John Proctor and Arthur Dimmesdale. ... In The Crucible, as well as in the Scarlet Letter both groups of people were told to abide by certain rules of the Puritans. ... Although The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter consist of numerous similarities, it had a few differences, as well. ... The Scarlet Letter is a fiction story of Hester and the scarlet A; there was no such thing as it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this short story "Young Goodman Brown,"" Nathaniel Hawthorne creates an image of innocence compromised in the face of the evil of the world. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. ... This provided Hawthorne with much solitude. ... Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Massachusetts. ... But Nathaniel is most famous for his novel "The Scarlet Letter."" ...

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• Grade Level: High School