How could breaking your promise with your husband‚ being shunned by society‚ and disobeying a commandment given by God possibly be good? In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne the book’s main character‚ was forced to wear a scarlet stitched letter “A” on her chest after she had committed adultery. Although Hester was shamed and shunned by society she was lucky by Puritan standards to not be physically punished or even killed (“Puritan” US). Many adulterers in the Massachusetts
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In The Scarlet Letter‚ the Puritans are a group who believe that people are born with sin. Subsequently‚ they keep a strict eye over their community as well as themselves. Correspondingly‚ depending on how severe a sin is‚ it may be punishable by death. Hester is spared by the Puritans because they believe that she will serve as a living sermon of sin. Hester must wear a scarlet letter on her chest for the entirety of her life to make up for her punishment. These events convey how the overall theme
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A slave is a person who is legal “property” of another person and is forced to obey and work for them with no problems. Hester is a woman in the book The Scarlet Letter who is an adulterer‚ who obeys everyone with her punishment. Hester is described to be a slave of her own sin. Puritans laws required Hester to be bound through her identity to her very public sin. As such‚ the puritan system is the basis for which society has discovered its punishment systems. This would include beliefs on God‚ beliefs
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The Diary of Anne Frank is based on a true story where her and her family had to go into hiding for 2 full years before the Green Police caught them in a warm summer. The Frank family started to go into hiding in early July‚ 1942‚ it wasn’t until a week later the Van Danns showed up to the secret Annex. Sure enough it wasn’t until a couple months they had to let another person in the secret Annex it was Mr. Dussel‚ a local dentist in Amsterdam. Later in those years all 8 of them were caught by the
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young member of the Frank family named Anne Frank. Anne Frank kept a diary of the family’s experiences while living in the secret annex. Anne Franks diary and the detailed trials her and her family experienced are known and read by people all over the world. Anne Franks and her diary have
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The Scarlet Letter The scarlet letter is a tragedy. The puritan society is responsible for Dimmesdale ’s downfall because its members expect him to be perfect‚ and he is not. His inability to give the people what they require from him ultimately leads to his downfall. Dimmesdale has an affair with Hester Prynne‚ a married Puritan woman. Hester gives birth to their daughter‚ Pearl. "Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with them; always‚ especially‚ a sense of any
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The Scarlet Letter is a book of much symbolism. One of the most complex and misunderstood symbols in the book is Pearl‚ the daughter of Hester Prynne. Throughout the story Pearl develops into a prominent symbol of the "A". In this essay the example of symbolism Pearl comes to represent will be explained.<br><br>In the Scarlet Letter‚ Hester‚ for her sins‚ received a scarlet letter‚ "A" which she had to wear upon her chest for the rest of her life in Boston. This was the Puritan way of punishing her
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Journal 1: In the introduction‚ we learn about the nameless narrator who is the chief executive officer of the Salem Custom House. Since there are barely any ships that comes to Salem‚ the narrator spends his time trying to amuse himself. One rainy day he stumbles upon a pile of documents and finds a manuscript with a gold cloth in the shape of a letter A. It is a work written by Jonathan Pue‚ who had an interest in local history and he wrote about the events that happened in the middle of the
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“What is an American Puritan‚ Good Religion or Hypocrisy?” What is an American Puritan? First what is an American‚ someone who has come from another country or origin other than the United States of America‚ to live‚ there lives. Puritan’s‚ a religious section of English Protestants and English Calvinists in the 16th and 17th centuries. Because of the time period and religion at this time‚ a lot of pressure was put on a person to live by good standards or more arguably religious
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In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne portrays the personality of each character along with the secrets within‚ using mirror imagery to reflect the inner truth. In the beginning‚ Hester seems to be a passionate woman‚ and then turns into this sinful reflection of Puritan belief. Ironically‚ the man she commits adultery with is Reverend Dimmesdale‚ who is a reflection of the evil that has taken over Chillingworth. Lastly‚ the embodiment of the sin‚ Pearl‚ is a mirror image of Hester’s punishment. Mirror
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