The Scarlet Letter is a wonderful piece of literary work. ... The various types of characters in The Scarlet Letter help create a dim feeling to readers. ... " Hester Prynne, leading along little Pearl, in her scarlet grab, and pointing her forefinger, first at the scarlet letter on the bosom, and then at the clergyman's own breast."" (134) The dreams Dimmesdale had because of his guilt with having a relationship with Hester led him to have powerful dreams. ... The Scarlet Letter was a book that met all guidelines and does not require any editing. The Scarlet Letter was a novel t...

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The Scarlet Letter is a novel that's deals with the topic of sin in Puritan society. ... The Scarlet Letter is a novel that deals with the theme of sin. ... Some people feel that sinners should be harshly punished no matter how little the wrongdoing was. ... When the townspeople become aware of what Hester has done, they forced her to wear an ultimate sign of punishment, the scarlet letter. ... As Hawthorne expresses, it is clear to Puritans that they have little or no sympathy for unruly persons. ...

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The scarlet letter, a book about a lady named Hester Prynne who lived in the New World, in Puritan Boston. ... Instead Pearl developed to be a wild child, to her mother and the rest of the Puritan community she seemed to be a little elf and they sometimes doubted that she was human, " Hester was constrained to rush towards the child,- to pursue the little! ... At the end where Pearl is running about in the market place she runs to the seamen " they gazed wonderingly and admiringly at Pearl, as if a flake of the sea foam had taken the shape of a little maid, and were gifted with a soul of the...

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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". ... The scaffold is a place in the Scarlet Letter in which Puritan punishment takes its course, through the scorn that the townspeople provide to the victim on the pillory. ... "Bystanders" shows a people who were able to make Hester's life a little less painful by helping her in a time when she had no one to help her, but they instead decided t...

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Secret Sin Leads to Guilt In "The Scarlet Letter", Hawthorne depicts a way of life that no longer exists in today's society. ... Hester cannot even bring herself to tell her own daughter the true reason for the scarlet letter, which seems everyone but Pearl knows. ... shows how little the distinction between sinning and breaking the law was (Hawthorne 238). ...

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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author attempts to show the way society casts out individuals simply because their ideas and deeds differ from the common values. ... "Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast as the figure, the body, the reality of sin" (83). ... She barely gets by with the money she gets from her sewing skills, but still she shares what little she has with the indigent. ... "It was debated whether or not the scarlet letter was to be taken off her bosom" (163). ... "Such helpfulness was f...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, is a classic tale of human frailty and sin and the hardships that are caused by a single mistake. ... At the same time, The Scarlet Letter, tells the story of one woman's struggle to find meaning in living after disobeying the highly regarded word of God. ... The Scarlet Letter uses dark romanticism as Hawthorne attempts to explain the sinfulness of human nature and why people act as they do. ... Even little Pearl represents the "connecting link between the two [Hester and Dimmesdale]." ...

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For example the hippies, one could say without looking deep within were much different then the puritans but if you look a little deeper you find that they were both tryig to achieve the same goal. ... In the book The Scarlet Letter you read about very many views that tie directly into this sort of control. ... Since the Society in The Scarlet Letter was a puritan society the people were highly subjected to this concept. ... Hester prynn was a great example, in the scarlet letter, of how strict the puritan belief was at that time. ...

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Hester prynne comes from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... The scarlet letter is an "A" embroidered on Hester's clothes with gold thread, which signifies that she is an adulterer. ... "The truth was, that the little puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child; and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not infrequently reviled them with their tongues" (Hawthorne 94). ... The reason for her scarlet letter has faded. ...

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Throughout the novel Dimmesdale becomes increasingly hurt, as he bears his own scarlet letter within his heart. ... This sermon is like a slap on the face to the Puritans by showing their unbeknownst hypocrisy where they shuddered at Hester's scarlet letter yet, Dimmesdale's letter received no recognition. ... We do not choose who we love, and it is not wrong to have love for more than one person, the puritans I know believe have just realized this in this little epiphany. ... When the townsfolk claim to have seen a scarlet letter imprinted on the chest of Dimmesdale (pg 176). ...

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By speaking to God in his diary he says, "I find my heart prone to take secret pleasure in thinking how much I do for others good: but lord how little of it is done for thee." ... In the Scarlet Letter Hester mentions a Black man who gives her the scarlet letter on her chest. ...

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According to Anne Marie MacNamara, Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter goes through several stages of spiritual growth; preparation, communication, transformation and finally revelation. To further understand why Dimmesdale is so hard on himself we must first Learn a little back ground on Puritanism. ... Then he started to become a little more confident and was able to talk to the people of the town and see how they felt they felt about the whole ordeal. ... Dimmesdale now had a little stronger confidence and was able to talk to the people of the town (Gross 70). ... So through this ...

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