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. ... The general aspects of characters are also similar in both The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible. ... In The Scarlet Letter, there is a minister, Dimmesdale, a political! ... However, more parishoners like Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter than Parris in The Crucible. ...

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The Scarlet letter: In the world of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, he shows the audience a 1600 Puritan society. ... The Scarlet Letter is very distorted in its depiction of the appearance of the letter, the meaning of the letter, and the affect that the letter has on other people. The appearance of the Scarlet Letter is very mysterious. ... The Scarlet Letter is very distorted in the appearance of the letter, the meaning of the letter, and the affect that the letter has on other people. ... Hawthorne's use of distortion is prevalent throughout the whole story in ev...

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The novel The Scarlet Letter is mainly a gloomy, dark story because it is centered on sin in the puritan society. Through out The Scarlet Letter, light is used to show happiness and goodness. ... Pearl did not come and it was as if though Pearl did not recognize her own mother without the scarlet letter upon her chest. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the literary theme light versus dark plays a very important role. ... The use of light and dark is what makes the story come alive and what makes The Scarlet Letter such a well-respected novel. ...

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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. ... An instance of the forest being evil can be revealed when Mistress Hibbins approaches Hester to invite her to "dance with the dark man", this goes with the setting of the forest. ... Her punishment was concluded that she would have to wear a stitched red letter A on her chest as long as she remain...

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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. ... The scarlet was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. ... 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." ... Hawthorne would have most likely relied on Puritan educational history as a setting for the newly married Brown's self-examination. ...

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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. ... The scarlet was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. ... 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." ... Hawthorne would have most likely relied on Puritan educational history as a setting for the newly married Brown's self-examination. ...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, each thread is an ironic element of setting, and together, they demonstrate people's tendency to seek shelter from, instead of in, society. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, he shows the lasting effect that sin has on Hester and Dimmesdale. ... Hester is publicly seen with the scarlet letter when she first emerges out of the cold dark prison. ... The scarlet letter is what isolates her from everyone else because it symbolizes sin. ... "Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet letter in the market-place!" ...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck all have social problem involving the main character. ... Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door, we could see him pretty clear". ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the issue of sexism comes up. ... Her punishment for her crime was to spend a few hours on the scaffold to face public humiliation, and she was forced to wear the letter "A" on her clothes for the rest of her life. ... In the novel The Scarlet Letter,...

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But Nathaniel is most famous for his novel "The Scarlet Letter."" ... Even the setting of the twisting, long journey through the woods demonstrates indecision and conflict, as Goodman has to spend a prolonged time considering his actions. ...

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