Literature, as a whole, would be much more appealing if authors let their readers make their own decisions about the events or characters in the story. The ambiguousness of The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne leaves many of the actions, events, and issues involving the characters up to the reader's own assumption. ... A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. ... Openly showing Hawthorne's attitude about irresponsibility as diminishing the integrity of a person and those a...

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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. ... The question that comes to mind when thinking about the idea of public shunning is: Is this act of shunning positive or negative? ... the answer to these questions vary depending on the situations at hand. ... But what about something like committing adultery? ...

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American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. ... The political influences on American romanticism include 18th century notions about human perfectability, the ideals of American democracy, and the tensions caused by growing concerns over the rights of women and the problem of slavery. ... Poe's work often explores questions of individual psychology, but can certainly be read to gesture to a sort of cultural psyche, a particular American unconscious. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne: many of Haw...

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We hold it therefore our dutie and safetie whilst we are about the further establishing of this government to collect and expresse all such freedomes as for present we foresee may concerne us, and our posteritie after us, And to ratify them with our sollmne consent. ... Many religious leaders preached sermons about God's punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah to remind the people of what could happen to them if they disobeyed God's law. ... Generally adulterers were forced to wear the letter A sewed on their clothes and counterfeiters wore the letter C (Hemlines 140). ... Witchcraft (1...

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