In The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne creates a story where every emotion is shown. ... The book The Scarlet Letter shows the consequences of peoples actions and how everything does not work out the way one has planed. ... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. ... Jimmy Eat World's two lines summarize The Scarlet Letter and all the characters, "Someone's gonna ask you what it's all about. ... Both The Scarlet Letter and A Praise Chorus explain how life has unexpected twists and turns. ...

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Suffering is a major theme in The Scarlet Letter; all the characters are affected by their own agony. ... She illustrates this in the making of her scarlet letter, " fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!" ... He finds the father when he " laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment..." seeing a symbol on Dimmesdale's chest that constitutes the sin of the scarlet letter. ... Dimmesdale explains the darkness of Chillingworth's sins to Hester: "' We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. ... The novel, The Scarlet Letter, exhibits ma...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Bible quotes in James 2:14, "What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? ... However, in The Scarlet Letter, a famous novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Dimmesdale carries the problem of confession and his wrongdoings are what makes him a far greater sinner than any other character in the novel. ... Although, the narrator points out indirectly that Dimmesdale is a person of self-harm as he explains that "Crime is for the iron-nerved, who have their choice either to endure it, or, if it press too hard, to exert their fierce and sa...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hester In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne gives Hester Prynne the challenge of living in a community where everyone shuns on her the committing adultery. ... Hester says this quote when the governor tells her that he thinks it is better off for Pearl to be removed from Hester's care. ... This quote proves that Pearl is so special to Hester and is the reason she lives; without Pearl; she would not be who she is at this point in her life. ... One quote reads, "Her Pearl! ... This quote explains Hester's reasoning for naming Pearl, Pearl. ...

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(Buddha) This is a perfect quote to explain what happened to Roger Chillingworth throughout the book "The Scarlet Letter". ... Chillingworth was a symbol in the Scarlet Letter to represent the power of uncontrollable evil as well as the self-destructiveness of obsession and revenge....

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• Grade Level: High School