The Scarlet Letter There is much dispute as to whether or not The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, can be a viable document used to understand the 1600s during the time of Puritanism. ... Morality and what is ethical also plays a necessary part to the development in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... As Gorman puts it, "The Scarlet Letter was a shadow of his own spiritual past" (Gorman pg. 144). ... In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne begins to explain the surrounding area of his Puritan town and then travels into an old storage site in which he finds the mysterious sc...

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The symbols used in this book are the scarlet letter, Pearl, and the rosebush next to the rusted prison door. The scarlet letter was a stigma worn by someone who had committed a sinful act many Puritan settlements. ... From the very beginning, the readers could see the significance of the letter because of Hawthorne's description: " that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. ... The symbols used in this book are the scarlet letter, Pearl, and the rosebush next to the rusted prison door. The scarlet letter was thought to be the proper way to deal w...

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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, draws attention to the negative qualities pertaining to the Puritan lifestyles and beliefs of the 17th century. ... As a result of this, he wrote The Scarlet Letter to show that nothing benefited from puritan ideology. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne proves this point in his novel "The Scarlet Letter". ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter", the people of the community's true characters reveal themselves when in chapter 11 page 99, Reverend Dimmesdale confess's that he is a sinner like them. ...

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Hawthorne frames The Scarlet Letter around three scaffold scenes in the beginning, middle and end of the novel; each scene occurs on different occasions and at different times. In all three scenes, however, the main characters Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth are united. The scenes become mo...

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Throughout the passage from the scarlet Letter, Author Nathaniel Hawthorne's emotions about the Puritans and the Puritan community are deeply expressed with a sense of critisism and mockery. The Puritans, who are to be honorable people with good morals, are described by Hawthorne as harsh, and hypo...

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Some of his works include The Custom House, The Scarlet Letter, and Fanshawe just to name a few. ... The Custom House was a prequel to The Scarlet Letter witch also did very well in the stores. The Scarlet Letter remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth and continues to be read as a classic. ...

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne takes a very biased side against the Puritans he writes about. ... Hawthorne's presentation of the Puritans throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter is not much different from my own opinion, though he leaves out even the slightest amount of good characteristics that they might possess. ... Even though he wrote The Scarlet Letter subjectively against the Puritan culture, one should not overlook the possibility that he wrote in such a way so the reader would view his ancestors as he did. ...

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American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne: many of Hawthorne's stories are set in Puritan New England, and his greatest novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850), has become the classic portrayal of Puritan America. ...

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For some time now, feminists have examined literary works in terms of the absent/objectified presence of the Other, in whatever form Other might be recognized (for example, anyone not white, male, or educationally and economically privileged). We have also critiqued culture and history in these terms, articulating at least some of the consequences of such constructed oppositions and exclusions. For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its...

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