In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Pearl‚ is the human symbol of the sin of adultery in the fact that she leads her mother‚ Hester Prynne‚ and Arthur Dimmesdale to accept and admit to their sin. Pearl is the beautiful daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. She is the living symbol of the scarlet letter and has unique traits that make her sometimes appear as a demon. Her love for nature and freedom‚ her spirit‚ her wildness‚ her loneliness and separation from the world‚ her curiosity‚ and her
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet letter is a book filled with mystery‚ deep thought and symbolism left for interpretation. This book of romance contains acts of crime‚ revenge‚ and sins for the ones that we love. This book written by the classic author Nathaniel Hawthorne has a lot of ambiguous characters. Hawthorne used his characters to portray irony and moral ambiguity. The most intriguing character I chose that displays moral ambiguity is Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. His character is fairly
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no one except Hester and Chillingworth knew of his hidden guilt. The entire town praised and admired Dimmesdale. At any sermon in which he says that he is the most sinful man‚ they do not question him. The people look at him with pure awe and feeling that he is the greatest because he admits that he too can sin because he is human. The entire settlement of Boston believe that Dimmesdale was the most righteous man they have ever met‚ and he was their only chance of salvation so they can go to heaven if predestined
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Name: Professor: Bernhard Radloff Subject: ENG 2450 B Date: December 4‚ 2012 Scarlet Letter Review Introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter remains one of the best examples of Puritan literature‚ a novel‚ which points to the inadequacy of the Puritan beliefs and the moral duality of the Puritan culture. This paper reviews the author’s novel from a new‚ conformity vs. individuality angle. The context in which the novel was created is discussed. Hester’s silent challenge against
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about his adoptive child. Chillingworth is caring and kind; however‚ he is also distant‚ neutral‚ and slightly manic. Chillingworth focuses on only one objective: to get revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale for committing adultery with Chillingworth’s wife‚ Hester Prynne. While Chillingworth wants to get revenge on Dimmesdale
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needs revenge on the father of Hester’s baby. He doesn’t want revenge‚ nor does he simply have a dream of vengeance. He absolutely needs revenge. Revenge fills and feeds his soul‚ nourishing it with delight from hell with every blow of the whip Dimmesdale deals to himself. Roger devotes himself to finding out the identity of Pearl’s father. It sounds impossible to find out something like this without the consent of one of the parties‚ but “there are few things hidden from the man who devotes himself
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and lastly‚ the revelation of the scarlet letter. The second scaffold scene in Chapter 12 is substantial in that it is the first time that the Reverend Dimmesdale‚ Hester‚ and Pearl have all come together and acknowledged their ties to one another. However‚ the climax of the story does not take place until Chapter 23. Here‚ Reverend Dimmesdale publicly reveals that he‚ too‚ bares the scarlet letter A’ (whether literally or symbolically‚
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evil and sinful acts‚ but each act is at a different degree of sinfulness (i.e. the sins get worse as the story goes a-long). These three sinners‚ in the eyes of the Puritan community‚ are the beautiful Hester Prynne‚ the esteemed Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and the cold-hearted doctor‚ Roger Chillingworth. Like Hawthorne‚ I believe that evil is the nature of man but that there are different magnitudes of evil; some choose to fight it‚ like Hester‚ and some choose to give in‚ like Chillingworth. Hester
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scaffold. The scaffold starts out to be place of sin and humiliation but ironically becomes a place of true salvation. It is used by many characters to show their emotions as well as how people of the Puritan society treated Hester‚ Pearl‚ and Arthur Dimmesdale. In the first scaffold scene‚ Hester is holding her daughter Pearl in her arms. Hester has committed adultery and must stand on the scaffold for three hours to endure her punishment. She is placed with the scarlet letter “A” on her bosom so that
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the townspeople ask him to be their town doctor for Dimmesdale. In chapter 4 he starts to change and starts to harbor some malice in himself. On page 66-67 he says “I shall seek this man…as I have sought gold…I shall see him tremble”. He knows Hester is an adulterer‚ but he does not know who Pearl’s father is. He vows that that man will be punished and wants revenge. In chapter 9 this hate only increases‚ and has found out that Dimmesdale is Pearl’s father. On page 114 he is described as “Satan
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