The Scarlet Letter Part two: Formal Literary Response 1.a. Identify and describe both the time and place of The Scarlet Letter. ... In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Hester, the main character has to live with a scarlet letter on her bosom, which lets others know about her sin. ... Identify a major theme of The Scarlet Letter. ... I liked this book a little bit because I am one of those people that enjoy extreme fantasies. ...

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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne strategically structures the story around three very crucial scaffold scenes. ... Hawthorne also connects Hester's openly displayed shame with Dimmesdale's secret shame by having them both touch the stop where the scarlet letter is simultaneously. ... Little Pearl clasps her arms around his knees when he calls them. ... He shows them the scarlet letter he bears. ...

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The Effects Of Sin In The Scarlet Letter It is a fact that in time, we all have committed sins. ... Some people feel that sinners should be punished severely no matter how little the sin was. ... The Scarlet Letter is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne which revolves around the theme of sin. ... When the townspeople became aware of what Hester has done, they forced her to wear a sign of punishment, the scarlet letter. ... The theme of The Scarlet Letter is interesting because it can be put into terms in today's world. ...

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She has sown a large scarlet "A" over her breast, using her finest skill to make the badge of shame appear to be a decoration. ... She looks at her daughter and then fingers the scarlet letter which will remain a part of her from now on. ... Hawthorne points out that the first thing Pearl saw in her infancy was the scarlet letter. ... to which Pearl replies that she is Hester's little Pearl. ... Hawthorne comments that, "the child's whole appearance...was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life!" ...

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The Scarlet Letter One belief that people live by is that evil is the nature of mankind, yet there are others that feel man has good intentions but those intentions can be overrun by the devil. Nathaniel Hawthorne points out that the former is true of all people in the novel The Scarlet Letter. ... In the novel, Hester received a scarlet letter, "A," for her sins, which she had to wear upon her chest for the rest of her life in Boston. ... Well he goes a little further into the same sin. ...

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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne similarly develops the concepts of guilt and the freedom gained by confession. ... Hester also reveals that this embrace covered her scarlet letter, but that " wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm,"with a glance that would not be abashed - (46). ... According to The Scarlet Letter: A Student Casebook , however, " The Minister's Vigil' (Chapter 12) takes place at night when the purpose of the scaffold is controverted, becoming a place of concealment rather than expo...

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