Protagonist role in The Scarlet Letter " But (Hester) is not the protagonist, the chief actor, and the tragedy of The Scarlet Letter is not her tragedy but Arthur's. ... His public confession is one of the noblest climaxes of tragic literature." The argument over the protagonist role in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne runs undeniably deep. ... He waited with open arms and Hester, the protagonist, initiated the building of the infrastructure of The Scarlet Letter. ... All qualities of a protagonist, who initiates the action in a story and allows for forward movement, As Hest...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter, Pearl, is a symbol of sin and adultery in the sense that she leads Dimmsdale and Hester to their confession and the acceptance of their sins. ... She is also the only living symbol of the scarlet letter "A". ... It is commonly agreed that the colors are used extensive in The Scarlet Letter as symbols. ... The most famous symbol is of course the scarlet letter itself. ... In conclusion, one of the most important reasons that The Scarlet Letter is so well known is the way Hawthorne leaves the novel open to be interpreted several different ways b...

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This was surely the case in Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, a novel set in Puritan times that describes what guilt and sin truly are. ... Hester's guilt was open for all of the townspeople to see, while Dimmesdale's guilt was hidden from the public eye. ... Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast (72). ... they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin, fo...

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