The Scarlet Letter One belief that people live by is that evil is the nature of mankind, yet there are others that feel man has good intentions but those intentions can be overrun by the devil. Nathaniel Hawthorne points out that the former is true of all people in the novel The Scarlet Letter. ... In the novel, Hester received a scarlet letter, "A," for her sins, which she had to wear upon her chest for the rest of her life in Boston. ... The quote that brings the whole book together is one where Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale are in the woods and they are discussing the magnitude of t...

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Throughout the novel Dimmesdale becomes increasingly hurt, as he bears his own scarlet letter within his heart. ... In this quote the author is telling how Dimmesdale after seven years has become able to declare his love for Hester. ... This sermon is like a slap on the face to the Puritans by showing their unbeknownst hypocrisy where they shuddered at Hester's scarlet letter yet, Dimmesdale's letter received no recognition. ... When the townsfolk claim to have seen a scarlet letter imprinted on the chest of Dimmesdale (pg 176). The narrator isn't saying that there was a letter ...

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THE BIGGEST SINNER In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, sin was a very evident factor throughout the novel. ... Hester was sentenced to wear the letter A and had to stand on the scaffold while he took not a single ounce of punishment for his crime. ... Dimmesdale acknowledges this in the following quote, "I who have breathed the parting prayer over your dying friends, to whom the Amen sounded faintly from a world which they had quitted, -- I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!"... The following quote reveals how Dimmesdale has wanted to r...

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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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