and intent scrutiny‚ he felt her pulse‚ looked into her eyes--a gaze that made her heart shrink and shudder‚ because so familiar‚ and yet so strange and cold--and‚ finally‚ satisfied with his investigation‚ proceeded to mingle another draught. Hester is being punished harshly for her sin‚ no one understands her and the whole town seems to hate her. When chillingsworth comes she knows its her husband. Yet fear not for him! Think not that I shall interfere with Heaven’s own method of retribution
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prison-door‚ the scaffold’s merciless nature‚ and the forest’s unruly and mysterious spirit‚ the protagonist‚ Hester Prynne‚ recognizes that her New England roots suppress her identity while nature serves as a respite‚ providing forgiveness and acceptance that relieve Hester of her ignominy. Rather than escaping New England’s firm hand to seek a sake haven in the oasis of the wilderness‚ Hester realizes that the scarlet letter provides a harmonic relationship with nature‚ allowing her to create an internal
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that she has done‚ yet Pearl also brings Hester joy. The author-Nathaniel Hawthorn-uses Pearl as a symbol of punishment and a gift. The author uses symbols and diction to convey the theme that even the most brutal of punishments can be confernting. Hawthorne uses diction to showhow Hester’s precious Pearl hurts her on the outside. Even though Hester loves her daughter and her daughter brings her joy‚ there are certain things about Pearl that frighten Hester and torture her. The auther is able to
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story of the downfall and redemption of Hester Prynne. The hypocritical Puritan society punishes Hester for committing adultery. However‚ in her own mind‚ she does not see her actions as a sin because she acts out of love. Furthermore‚ she redeems herself by turning her offense into a virtue. Through the tale of Hester Prynne‚ Hawthorne’s moral is that the sin is not in adultery‚ but in the persecution of love by the society. The Puritan society persecutes Hester Prynne for committing adultery‚ while
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Nathienal Hawthorne‚ the narrarator places symbolic connections between Hestre’s daughter‚ Pearl and the life Hester endures after her commitment of an adultrious sin. Hester is forced to look upon her daughter; a living embodiment of the ultimate sin commited as a contant reminder of the past. The erry details used to describe Pearl as well as her actions enforce the sifficance of the consequence Hester must be reminded of evryday for her action in the past. In profiding such deatils‚ readers become intreged
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nations on earth. In few other places could one simply shout U-S-A three times and have a crowd gather passionately chanting the three symbolic letters. This pride affects not only our nation on a nation level with stereotypes but also influences every citizen to their very core. Pride is not something new added into todays society- although social media has showcased it- but rather has existed from the second Christopher Columbus believe he was superior to the Native Americans and greedily took over
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Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is a victim and a heroine that is admired because of her strong will‚ and disregard for other’s views of her. She comes from an impoverished but genteel English family‚ having lived in a "decayed house of gray stone‚ with a poverty-stricken aspect‚ but retaining a half-obliterated shield of arms over the portal‚ in token of antique gentility." But even without that specific indication of her high birth‚ the reader would know that Hester is a lady‚ from her
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Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth experience the different forms and effects of sin and guilt. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale are both mostly convicted for having the sin of adultery while Roger Chillingworth is most guilty of having the sin of revenge. Out of these 3 main characters Hester handles her sin through most effective way and used it to her advantage. Dimmesdale and Chillingworth‚ on the other hand‚ were not as “strong” as Hester when it came to
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The narrator decides to write about Hester Prynnes experiences but with uninspiring men he is not able to. When a new president is elected‚ the narrator starts to write a story called The Scarlet Letter. Next‚ we learn about Hester Prynne. She is tall with dark hair. The first thing she does is that she comes out of a prison holding an infant with the letter “A” on her chest. There are many criticisms as Hester walks through the crowd about her adultery. Hester spots her husband in the crowd but
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blossom into something much greater. The puritans in this book do not agree with this logic very well‚ as they show many times through their public acts of hate towards Hester. The story about Hester and her sin’s impact on the naïve puritan town shows that good can‚ in fact‚ come from bad. Although initially it appears that Hester is doomed to live a horrible life because of the mark she bears‚ both Pearl and the A’s transformation can prove that something once viewed as unworthy can transform into
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