Hester showed this and did not care what the Puritans thought of her. ... Puritans began to criticize her and say Pearl was the daughter of the devil. The children of the Puritans would run away from her and throw mud at them. ... The Puritans are very strict and religious and sin is not allowed or the person is condemned. Hawthorne's strategy in The Scarlet Letter is to enclose his human dilemma between the extreme positions represented by the black puritan and the fair puritan and to investigate a range of consequences within those boundaries. ( Stubbs Caldwell) The day that Dimsdale co...

• Word Count: 1408
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

As the story progresses, the reader meets new characters, all of them with their own dilemma. ... Darkness is used to portray hatred and punishment, or in the puritan society sin. ... Hester used to be one of the finest most beautiful puritan women in the town. ... At one point, near the conclusion of the novel, Hester redeemed her puritan soul and got her light back. ... In the puritan society and in the novel the devil is called the black man. ...

• Word Count: 1649
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School