by society to label a person by his or her actions in the past will fail. Subjectivity across the community and throughout time changes the meaning of a symbol society implements to control an idea. The scarlet letter “A” Hester Prynne wears exemplifies this. The town wants the object to arouse feelings of ignominy towards Hester; however‚ not everyone who meets Hester interprets it the same way. The town originally regards the letters as a signification of ignominy‚ but this interpretation soon
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prejudices. Hester Prynne‚ a young wife whose husband is presumed dead‚ is being publicly humiliated for the sin of adultery. The proof of her sin is her baby girl Pearl. She conceals the identity of Pearl’s father to protect him from the harsh judgment of Puritan law. She however is doomed to spend the rest of her life marked as an adulterer by wearing a scarlet “A” on her chest. Hester’s husband meanwhile has arrived in the colony and taken up practice as a doctor. He makes Hester promise that
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Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter are exile and the effects of this embarrassing and horrific punishment. Hester Prynne‚ the main character of this novel‚ was indeed exiled and considered an outcast by the Puritan society of New England‚ which she called her home. As a result of Hester’s punishment by society‚ her experience with exile was both alienating and enriching. First and foremost‚ Hester Prynne’s exile was brought upon herself. She committed the sin of adultery in a very strict and Biblical
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Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter as an exemplum on pride. His creation of Hester Prynne‚ the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter‚ and her selflessness was the moral behind keeping her alive. The characters in The Scarlet Letter are nothing more than symbols representing abstract qualities and are dispensable. Names play an important role in The Scarlet Letter it is Hawthorne ’s way of distinguishing not just the characters but their personalities. The latter is the most important when
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Hawthorne tries to convey are still relevant today. Think about it. With all of the experiences of Hester Prynne and other characters in the novel‚ we interpret concepts that are still correlated with those of today. In Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter‚ two crucial themes of sin and what it can do to people and the different degrees of evil directly relate to today’s society and modern ideas. As it is known‚ Hester committed a sin in the novel with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale that the Puritans in her society
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phrase‚ I must be content to call affection. This closely parallels the return of Hester Prynne from England to Boston. In the conclusion of The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester disappeared yet no tidings unquestionably authentic were received. Shortly after this sentence‚ the reader finds that Hester returns to Boston to‚ the home of so intense a former life‚ was more dreary and desolate than she could ever bear. Clearly‚ Hester was happier in England‚ yet made her way home to Boston. Happiness elsewhere‚ but
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burden of sin on their backs. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ a Puritan minister‚ struggled the greatest with his sin which eventually led to his death. Dimmesdale’s sin was the greatest because he sinned against God and the Church but he also sinned against Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. “Inward trouble drove him to practices more in accordance with the old‚ corrupted faith of Rome than with the better light of the church
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consequences. Dimmesdale is very conflicted with himself and also with the community; he struggles with doing the what is right. Arthur Dimmesdale is a reverend of the Puritan community. He is very protective of his reputation‚ because of that; he lets Hester Prynne‚ the mother of his daughter‚ take the blame for a sin they both committed. He refuses to let the Puritan townspeople know what he has done. They praise him and the narrator demonstrates that as he states: “Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale; a young clergyman
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you would be surprise to find out. In this story the main character is Hester Prynne; Hester is a sinner because she committed adultery. And from that event that happen pearl is born. Hester decided to stay in the town because she wanted to repent for her sins‚ her love for her daughter pearl‚ and her love for Reverend Dimondale (The priest and Pearl father). Hester use her needle skill and thread to earn her living. Hester decided to stay in the town because she wanted to repent for her sins
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to be very religious; however elements of hypocrisy in the puritan way of life are exemplified. There is a strict hierarchy in a society that advocates equality‚ at the top are men like Governor Bellingham‚ who himself is very materialistic. “Hester Prynne went‚ one day‚ to the mansion of Governor Bellingham‚ with a pair of gloves‚ which she had fringed and embroidered to his order.” Because “she hath good skill at her needle” he orders her to make them for him‚ to show “he still held an honourable
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