The conjoining of church and state was not as evident within The Scarlet Letter but instead displays the inability to perfect human nature regardless of any assistance given by a created lifestyle such as Puritanism. ... Sin, rather than power, is the basis of The Scarlet Letter and donates to the message that perfection is not achievable by a set of rules that is ever created by man. ... The Crucible uses this power in a more apparent fashion by personifying this necessity for power through Reverend Parris, while The Scarlet Letter explains the inabilities of these powers, which in tu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter" was published in 1850 and when it was first released it did not do well. ... Although Hawthorne wrote many novels, none of them were as successful as "The Scarlet Letter". ... In the Scarlet Letter, there is the symbolic significance of various settings: the scaffold; the forest, which ironically becomes an oasis of freedom for Hester and Dimmesdale, though everyone else views it as the devil's territory. ... The scaffold is a place in the Scarlet Letter in which Puritan punishment takes its course, through the scorn that...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The scarlet letter, a book about a lady named Hester Prynne who lived in the New World, in Puritan Boston. ... Dimmesdale were to tell to the public that he is the father of Pearl, and the spell of the scarlet letter is to be broken. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Known for their strict, repressive society, the Puritans barred all forms of deviation within their community, as described in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Set in the mid-1600s, The Scarlet Letter epitomizes the religious intolerance of Puritan society. ... In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan community of Boston essentially creates Hester Prynne's deviation. ... Puritanism's repressive intolerance challenged the people of the 17th Century, as portrayed in The Scarlet Letter. ...

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne takes a very biased side against the Puritans he writes about. ... Hawthorne's presentation of the Puritans throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter is not much different from my own opinion, though he leaves out even the slightest amount of good characteristics that they might possess. ... Even though he wrote The Scarlet Letter subjectively against the Puritan culture, one should not overlook the possibility that he wrote in such a way so the reader would view his ancestors as he did. ...

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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. ... 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 of the townspeople for three hours wearing an embroided Scarlet letter "A" which stood for "Adultery" at that point in the novel. ... In comparison to Ray rice, a football player who was well li...

• Word Count: 1654
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate