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    sky…far away from all our problems…” She looked up into the face a man‚ not a beast. It was a man with curly dark hair and shining green eyes. His lips were full and pink as roses petals‚ and his jaw hinted heavily at his body’s strength. He had gone so long without shaving‚ her poor Prince. Her poor prince that God saw fit to steal from her then. Color bled into the world of white light. All around her‚ his loyal servants who attended to them even in spirit appeared in their finest clothes. The

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    In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter‚ the forest means different things to different people. To the honorable and respectable members of Puritan ‚ the forest is an evil and frightening place where witches lurk and the devil resides. To Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale‚ two people unable to speak their minds in Puritan community‚ the forest offers a place of refuge where they can be true with each other. To Pearl‚ the forest . The symbolism of the forest setting’s inherently good and bad natures

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    of Sin in The Scarlet letter Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is an exciting romance novel. Hester Prynne had just committed adultery and is forced to put a scarlet letter A on her chest. She suffers punishment at the hands of the townsfolk‚ her husband‚ and the rules of puritan religion. Hawthorne shows us how people judge quickly when others sin‚ but forget quickly when they do the same. Hawthorne uses imagery to show that there can sometimes be good at the end of a dark sinful tunnel

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    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 seventeenth century. 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

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    Daniele Luetke AP English 12/20/12 Nature Essay The Role of Nature In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ there are several chapters devoted to nature and its role in the novel. Every main character has some kind of an interaction with nature. In the beginning of the novel‚ Hawthorne relates a rosebush to the footsteps of Ann Hutchinson who‚ in the eyes of early Puritan society‚ was a criminal. However‚ nature knows she was innocent‚ so it responded to her with a pure rosebush. Whether

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    the problem is or what is going to happen for the rest of the story is the gun going off. The climax is the final stretch where the racer uses the last of his strength. The end‚ when the author raps everything up‚ is the awards ceremony. In “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne there are three scaffold scenes scattered throughout the novel. The three scaffold scenes are similar in the fact that someone is being humiliated and the

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    Perhaps the foremost purpose of The Scarlet Letter is to illustrate the difference between shaming someone in public and allowing him or her to suffer the consequences of an unjust act privately. According to the legal statutes at the time and the prevailing sentiment of keeping in accordance with a strict interpretation of the Bible‚ adultery was a capital sin that required the execution of both adulterer and adulteress--or at the very least‚ severe public corporal punishment. Indeed‚ even if the

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    marriage. A reported 95% of Americans today have had premarital sex. In today’s society‚ premarital sex is not considered a sin to most people. In the 1800s‚ it was a different story. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne was found guilty of adultery‚ branded with a scarlet A‚ and shunned by the town--an extreme punishment by modern standards. This A that Hester was forced to embroider onto all of her clothing symbolized not only her sin‚ but the A also held meaning for

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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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    Sin and Redemption: The Transformations of Prynne‚ Chillingsworth‚ and Dimmesdale In “The Scarlet Letter‚” Hawthorne presents the consequences of sin as an important aspect in the lives of Hester Prynne‚ Roger Chillingsworth‚ and Arthur Dimmesdale. The sin committed‚ adultery‚ between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale had resulted in the birth of their innocent little girl‚ Pearl. This sin ruined the three main characters’ lives completely in different ways. With the sin committed‚ there were

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