power of love‚ as well as playing with human emotion‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter on the struggles of Hester Prynne‚ a sinner in a Puritan community. Hester is a young beautiful woman who was married once before‚ but because of a complication in her travel to America is separated from her husband‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ for three years. Due to this separation Hester has an affair‚ which results in a child. The novel itself contains many powerful symbols‚ including: the letter A‚ the
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Sin and Punishments In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ there are three main sinners. They are Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth. These three people all commit terrible sins including revenge‚ adultery‚ and murder. Of these sinners‚ Roger Chillingworth is the guiltiest of them all‚ and this is because he never felt remorse for the terrible things he did throughout the novel. Chillingworth sins were aimed to bring pain and suffering to others where as Hester’s
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providing explicit examples of the Id‚ Ego‚ and Superego at work within Hester Prynne‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ Arthur Dimmesdale and Puritan society itself; these aspects often interfere with one another causing conflicting emotions and repression. Puritan
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Hester gets pregnant and the townspeople begin to figure out what happened. Even though Hester admitted to her sins‚ she will not give any information about the father of her baby. “A sickness‚ a sore place‚ if we may so call it‚ in your spirit. Would you‚ therefore‚ that your physician heal the bodily
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affected the characters and the whole story throughout the book‚ by showing how the characters handled themselves when dealing with the situation. He exemplified this through the three major characters: Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Roger Chillingworth and Hester Prynne. All three characters are involved in the sinful
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forgiveness‚ and other emotions. In the novel‚ the disparity of wild-flowers and similarities between a rose and Hester show the threat of sin to Puritan ideology. To begin‚ wild-flowers are thrown at the scarlet letter to reflect the Puritan principles that Hester Prynne neglects to follow. While in the forest‚ Pearl gathers handfuls of wild-flowers and flings them at her mother’s scarlet letter. Hester instinctively moves to “cover her bosom with her clasped hands”‚ but “from resignation” and a “feeling
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previous surveyor‚ detailing the events while working in and tidying up the attic one day. The fictional story depicts the life and struggles of Hester Prynne as she conceives a fierce and whimsical child‚ known as Pearl‚ after she has an affair with an unknown member of the community. At a glance‚ “The Scarlet Letter‚” is the story of a young woman‚ Hester Prynne‚ which is sent ahead of her husband to America‚
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the author uses irony to expose the true character that Arthur Dimmesdale truly is.Dimmesdale is known‚ to the townspeople of the Puritan village in Boston‚ as a well spoken and profound minister who is their vision of God. Although Minister Arthur Dimmesdale has many qualities that make him stand out in the puritan community; his sinful secret that burdens him severely every day is heavily shown through the three main types of irony. The people of this
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ideas. The novel begins with the main character‚ Hester Prynne‚ being led from a prison to a scaffold before the townspeople of early Boston‚ Massachusetts. The Magistrates of the town are punishing her for committing the sin of adultery and having a child out of wedlock. Although today we may not see this as a serious crime‚ in the early seventeenth century it was unheard of. Along with her punishment of public scrutiny and humiliation‚ Hester is forced to wear a scarlet letter “A”‚ for adulterer
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through priests and religion‚ in the name of God‚ almighty. The novel focuses on a women by the name Hester Prynne and the adulterous affair she committed with her minister and the catastrophic consequences that resulted. Hester was just an ordinary woman living in the Puritan society and her husband Roger Chillingworth was assumed to be lost at sea but Hester chose to believe he was dead‚ as a result Hester slept with her minister Arthur Dimmesdale. As a
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