The reader immediately recognizes that the complex art of her sewing, her re-presentation of her sin and art in Pearl, and her subversive political visions largely originate in that passionate core.(Egan) Hester is considered a rose bush surrounded by weeds. The rose bush symbolizes goodness in Hester and the weeds symbolizing the other Puritans surrounding her. Although the rose bush is not only goodness because all rose bushes have thorns which means that sin is about to come into place. .
After Hester committed her sin and wore the letter around her neck, the beauty began to fade away. 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. Priests would make Hester the topic of their sermons. The preachers would see her walking down the street and stop her and gather a crowd around her and preach that she did an evil thing. Hester knew what harm she had done and was so upset about the treatment she was receiving that she isolated herself from the town and lived in a small cottage far away in the woods. There she could live peacefully and cleanse herself from the sin and not be the center of attention. Hester was upset because she thought by confessing and letting the sin out, peoples view of her would be different. She wants Dimsdale to confess instead of keeping the sin a secret still. She feels he's lying to the world and especially to Pearl who still does not know who her father really is. .
Hester began to fade away to nothing. She was no longer beautiful and did not have that glowing appearance in her anymore. The scarlet letter had taken over her appearance."Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom" (Hawthorne 66).
The sin was all she could think about and she wanted Dimsdale to be with her and confess so she would not be alone anymore.
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Sin and the Prodigal Son Sin, Second chances, and the letter of the law. ... This represents Christian belief of what sin is, Sin is not only the commission specific actions, but also one's refusal to obey, and follow God. In short sin is anything that is not in God's will. As result of sin one steps out of the will of God for there lives, and is now subject to the wages of sin which is death. ... Christianity calls these bad decisions sin. ...
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Author Kurt Vonnegut was very fortunate to have the bulk of his writing years occur during a time in history in which he wrote Slaughter House Five. If this book were written in present day, I fear it would be about as broadly circulated as a Kilgore Trout novel. Slaughter House Five is a fictitio...
Author Kurt Vonnegut was very fortunate to have the bulk of his writing years occur during a time in history in which he wrote Slaughter House Five. If this book were written in present day, I fear it would be about as broadly circulated as a Kilgore Trout novel. Slaughter House Five is a fictitio...