In an attempt to portray both the cause and the effects of committing a sin, Nathaniel Hawthorne writes the book The Scarlet Letter. ... The town does not give her much support either; instead, the town punishes her to wear the letter "A" on her chest for every person whom she meets will know that she has committed the grave sin and to feel "unutterably grievous to be borne"(65). However, one should note that Hester need not have gone through all those punishments if she had not married without love. ... Through The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne tells us how different people suffer differently aft...

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Chillingworth as Satan in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel packed with religious symbolism, and Hawthorne subtly assigns the role of the devil to Roger Chillingworth. ... Symbolically, on another more obvious note, Chillingworth steals one of Dimmesdale's gloves and drops it on the scaffold where sinners are shamed in front of the town. ...

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"(Letter 4 pg. 18) This was when Walton found Victor on a sheet of ice and only one dog remained alive out of the whole team. As Harold bloom describes it in Frankenstein Blooms notes "The next letter, written on August 13th, begins with another declaration of Walton's great affection for his new "guest," a man for whom he feels both respect and compassion, one who spoke affectively and artfully.... Weeks before Victor would go to college Elizabeth contracts scarlet fever and nursed back to health by Caroline who unfortunately contracts it and dies. ...

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