Regardless of Hester's conscious morality, she is playing out her subconscious desires, which is distinctly Freudian. ... He effectively uses Hester as a study of morality with contrast to Dimmesdale as well. ... She feels that the burden of all the laws and religion have done no good for her anyway. Being a social outcast, she finds no invitation to repentance in the law that crushes her. She does not feel that what she is doing is completely immoral, but that she is simply rejecting the laws of her religion. ...

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Regardless of Hester's conscious morality, she is playing out her subconscious desires, which is distinctly Freudian. ... He effectively uses Hester as a study of morality with contrast to Dimmesdale as well. ... She feels that the burden of all the laws and religion have done no good for her anyway. Being a social outcast, she finds no invitation to repentance in the law that crushes her. She does not feel that what she is doing is completely immoral, but that she is simply rejecting the laws of her religion. ...

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Emerson furthers this notion by advocating the shrugging off of the bounds of conformity and adopting a lifestyle dictated not by society but by one's own inherent sense of morality. ... Both authors also argue that everyone has an obligation to act based solely on his/her own will, without regard to societal rules and laws, even going so far as to act in opposition to those laws that are felt to be unjust. Emerson claims that "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ... Rosa Parks was arrested and jailed for violating race laws, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jesus Ch...

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The Romantic literary movement was at its height, but Hawthorne and Poe strayed from typical Romantic writings with their darker tales concerning sin and morality (www.trackstar.com). ... "The Puritan age and its sure morality was an obsession in his life,"" said Canby. In the Puritan Community, man was viewed as innately corrupt and punishment was used as a warning to keep others from straying from morality (McPherson 38). ... By examining the laws and the prescribed punishments in the court records, we can get a better understanding of how the judicial system of the Pilgrims wor...

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Many of the concepts Hawthorne wrote about included morality, sin, and redemption (The American Novel). ... The fact that morality and discipline played such significant role in the Puritans' way of life, and the fact that Nathaniel Hawthorne also experienced this way of life, contributed to his writing. ... Hawthorne's approach to writing focused on a combination of culture and law. ... Some of the strengths Hawthorne had in his writing is the use of symbols to imply adultery, sins, and human morality. ...

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Hester's Morality Morality is a term that encompasses many different meanings. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes characterization techniques of morality throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne, through his curiosity of ancestral heritage, uses the history of Puritanism to create a character as dynamic as Hester Prynne, who acquires the conflict that happens as a result of the old Puritan laws. ...

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His despair wore him down, because he had violated the dignity of his position, and had broken a law that his education had made more prominent than any other law in his soul. ... And because he sinned against his own morality, he felt unable to grasp the freedom which Hester urged."... "Think not, that I shall, to my own loss betray him to the gripe of law Let him live! ...

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In a strict society, such as the Puritans, Hester disobeys the laws. She, in her decision to have a relationship with Reverend Dimmesdale, goes against the Puritan laws and moral code. ... The only negativity of what happened was that of the Puritan society and its unnatural and restrictive laws, forcing its ideals and morals over all the people in such a way going against nature. ... Hester represents neutrality against morality. ... Her lack of self repression and morals set her apart completely from the Puritan society, which is built on an endless list of moral laws and religious beliefs t...

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For example it is very necessary to shun someone who has physically harmed a woman it is against the law and immorall to all of society, females are not normally built the same way as males and they do not usually have the strength to fight back or defend themselves, it is pathetic for a man to abuse a woman because of these circumstances, therefore this action of abuse should be publically shunned and definitely not praised upon! ... We all know what is morally correct and what is not, it is about what actions people choose to take to either follow the rules of morality or go against it and c...

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According to the law of the Puritan society and the strict interpretation of the Bible, adultery is one of the deadliest sins that led to the deadliest punishment - execution or corporal punishment. ... Not only is Dimmesdale being physically destructive on himself, Dimmesdale is mentally destructing himself because of his own guilt and internal struggle between his morality and his reputation in the society. ...

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They thought that if they treated her so horrible that no one would ever even think of breaking the law again. ... When the community banished Hester Prynne they succeeded in upholding their morality but lost an individual. ...

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