Nathaniel Hawthorn, the author of "The Scarlet Letter," lived from 1804 to 1864. ... Much of Hawthorne's writings' thematic patterns included the idea of self-trust verses accommodation to authority and guilt verses innocence which is shown in the book "The Scarlet Letter" (The American Novel). ... Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts. ... The way in which women were thought of during that time explains the subject of "The Scarlet Letter.... The writing in "The Scarlet Letter" was not only based upon narrative, but also on data. ...

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In "The Scarlet Letter," the sin of adultery has had an enormous effect on two main characters in the book, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmsdale. ... It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life. ... Instead of her scarlet letter standing for "adultery," it starts to stand for "able." ... "Nathaniel Hawthorne." ... "Nathaniel Hawthorne." ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Works One of the most significant writers of the romantic period in American literature was Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... In "The Scarlet Letter," the sin of adultery has had an enormous effect on two main characters in the book, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmsdale. ... It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life. ... Instead of her scarlet letter standing for "adultery," it starts to stand for "able." ... Nathaniel Hawthorne was a great author of his time....

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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. ... Although Hawthorne writes that "The minister beheld there the appearance of an immense letter A (p.152)," one must consider and question ...

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The following pages will examine the way sin affected the Puritan Community in the Scarlet Letter. First, they explain the history of Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Hawthorne's sensitivity to guilt is clearly present in the Scarlet Letter, as well as some of his other works. ... It wasn't until the publication of his novel The Scarlet Letter in 1850 that Hawthorne became a well-known writer. ... (Baym 98) "Nathaniel Hawthorne was a mystery, even to himself,"" says Claudia D. ...

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THEME The Scarlet Letter centers round the consequences of sin, especially shame and guilt. ... PURITANISM IN THE NOVEL Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century New England town of Boston, a staunch Puritanical town. ... To Pearl, the scarlet letter is simply part of her mother. ... The significance of the scarlet letter in the life of Dimmesdale, whose guilt remains hidden, is suggested by a hidden scarlet letter on his heart. ... She still wears the scarlet letter, even though it is not expected. ...

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Two works of literature that display both aspects of this society very accurately are The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. ... Hawthorne illustrates how insensitive a Puritan society can be t! ... The settings in both The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are similar in many ways. The Scarlet Letter takes place around the 1640s, as the The Crucible occurs in 1692. ... In The Scarlet Letter, there is a minister, Dimmesdale, a political! ...

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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. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester Prynne to symbolize that those who challenge social conformities can benefit society as a whole. ... "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). ... "Children to young to comprehend wherefore this women so be shut out from the sphere of human charities coming forth ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an anti-transcendentalist and believed in the dark side of man, hence his dark romantic novel The Scarlet Letter. ... The Scarlet Letter defines the American Romanticist movement while using symbolic characters and places that give the book seemingly two different stories. ... The rosebush symbolizes a beauty that can not be taken away, the human spirit, like that of Hawthorne himself and also of Hester. ... The fact that Hester made the letter beautiful implies that she was not guilty of a crime. ... In this novel Hawthorne explains the importance of individuality and ...

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Why does Nathaniel Hawthorne choose to show his readers such self-imposed chastisement of the protagonist? ... (Hawthorne 1282). ... Hawthorne describes Mr. ... (Hawthorne 1285). ... "The Scarlet Letter- shows the protagonist Hester Prynne segregating herself from society by the famous letter A' sewn on her bosom. ...

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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...

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