The Scaffold Scenes In the novel‚ The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne shows two scaffold scenes. The scaffold scenes are different in many ways. Seven years from when Hester Prynne stood in shame‚ wearing her scarlet A‚ holding her demonic child Pearl‚ during the day. Dimmesdale now stands alone in the middle of the night. In the first scaffold scene with Hester everyone in town saw the high reverend Dimmesdale question her as her thought to be dead husband stood there as a witness of her punishment
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reader is drawn in without even being cognizant of it. It is patent that the novel is abundant with games‚ but the biggest game of all is the one in which the reader participates. The novel creates a cycle: Humbert uses words to play games with the characters‚ and Nabokov uses words to manipulate the reader. In fact‚ Lolita is an enormous game in itself‚ and the reader is just an unaware pawn. The game-like qualities throughout Lolita heighten the reader’s interest while concurrently lowering the novel’s
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Szczepanek‚ Anett English 11 AP‚ Per 6 October 24‚ 2013 Mystic Sisterhood “There is a special place in hell for all women who don’t help other women” –Madeleine Albright A mystic sisterhood. In The Scarlet Letter‚ written by the Nathanial Hawthorne‚ speaks of the astounding life of Hester Prynne and her shameful yet intellectual experiences with the scarlet letter resting on her bosom. In the midst of her time bearing the scarlet letter however‚ Hester begins to feel a
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In Waniek’s “The Century Quilt”‚ the author’s purpose is to show the reader why this particular quilt is so important to her. The extensive important behind the quilt is portrayed very convincingly with the use of literary devices such as imagery (colors)‚ vivid descriptions of certain details‚ and the most dominant device being a reminiscent tone. These devices work together to present a very clear understanding of how the author feels towards her century quilt. This particular poem doesn’t follow
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alone‚ away from the rest of the town‚ including Arthur Dimmesdale. They live alone due to actions of Hester that result in the birth of Pearl. An adulterous woman‚ Hester Prynne‚ must now walk around town and face all of the townspeople with a scarlet letter ‘A’ on her bosom. She faces daily taunting and humiliation‚ along with her daughter Pearl. If this line were not present readers would not be able to get a glimpse of the struggles Hester and Arthur experience throughout the entirety of the novel
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Honors American Lit. 4 March 9‚ 2008 Isolation within The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ an American author who lived from 1804-1864‚ could be characterized as “an imaginative genius gifted with considerable linguistic skill” (Perkins 1 of 3). Hawthorne’s most famous works included The House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun‚ both novels portrayed the essence of sin and guilt and their emotional effects on mankind. One of Hawthorne’s most famous works The Scarlet Letter‚ takes place in
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Zakk Hartwig PIB English 10 Period 2G October 20‚ 2010 The Scarlet Letter In the novel The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne uses many different settings to portray important functions and significance. Several of the settings such as the prison and cemetery‚ the town‚ Governor Bellingham’s house‚ the scaffold‚ the forest‚ the lighting‚ and so on have a deeper definition. The settings act as theme enhancers that make the novel more complex and classic. Hawthorne’s use of setting is spectacular in
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Selena Martinez Mrs. King AP English III-3 September 16‚ 2013 Rhetorical Analysis on the Scarlet Letter Hawthorne successfully portrays the use of extended metaphors‚ foreshadowing and language throughout the Scarlet Letter to easily grab hold or grasp the reader’s attentive minds. First of all the utilization of the extended metaphors-the lengthening of the average metaphor was developed in this passage to thoroughly describe Pearls reaction to Reverend Dimmesdale’s approach. “The child
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Honors American Lit. B Kathryn Durga The Scarlet Letter: The Child at Brook-side 3/22/13 In this passage Dimmesdale is speaking about Pearl standing on the other side of the stream refusing to go to him and Hester. The contrast between Pearl standing on the opposite side as them parallels the contrast in their lives. Hester‚ now not wearing the scarlet letter‚ and Dimmesdale are concealing their relationship and their sin in the forest‚ representing a world of secrecy. Pearl‚ however
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The Role of the Scaffold‚ “the Platform of Pillory”‚ in the Scarlett Letter and what it represented Thesis: The Scaffold was the platform of humiliation. The Scarlet Letter is a novel that revolves around the repercussion of an adulterous encounter in Puritan Boston. It emerged that a young beautiful woman (Hester Prynne) bears child with a respected clergyman (Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale). According to the Puritan Code‚ this would lead to public condemnation and mockery hence the two “partners in
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