Various Hester Prynne Diary Entries June 14th‚ 1641 This morning I awake in the prison‚ waiting for guards to take me to the market place. Pearl and my fate will be decided very soon and I am shaking with anxiety. What will become of us? Will it be that the people see the need of the death punishment? Perhaps they will take dear Pearl away from me! Oh I am trembling with fear. Pearl is sleeping in the corner and she is the most beautiful sight I’ve seen. Here comes the guards... I pray to the father
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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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Self-Reliance. However‚ Hester Prynne is the best example of a self-reliant character‚ in relation to Emerson’s essay. Emerson’s ideals about self-reliance can be summarized simply in the following words: a man must be true to oneself. Hester’s self-reliance was apparent by the way she made decisions based on what felt right for her‚ and how she redefined her life after being shunned by society‚ which are actions promoted by Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance. Hester Prynne was a woman who made decisions
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you feel better? Throughout the novel‚ Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict the good and evil among the characters in the story The Scarlet Letter including‚ Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth. Some characters keep secrets in this story so they don’t get in trouble. But Hester Prynne‚ with a mind of native courage and activity‚ and for so long a period not merely estranged‚ but outlawed‚ from society‚ had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as
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a big part of the symbolism in The Scarlet Letter. The sunshine and light represented the truth that was being revealed between Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne. In the novel‚ it states “. . . forth burst the sunshine‚ pouring every flood into the obscure forest. . .” (Hawthorne‚ 224) after Hester and Dimmesdale both confess their sin and Hester removes the scarlet letter from her bosom. Also the minister‚ talking about Pearl‚ says “Yonder she is‚ standing in a streak of sunshine. . .” (Hawthorne
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alienated that were alienated in the novel: Hester Prynne‚ Reverend Dimmesdale‚ and Pearl. The first example of alienation in the novel was Hester Prynne. She was alienated in three ways. First of all‚ she was alienated geographically. Her house was isolated from the rest of the town of Boston‚ and the house faced the ocean instead of facing society which was in the opposite direction. Secondly‚ she was socially alienated. No one would talk to Hester Prynne due to the fact that she had committed adultery
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In the novel “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hawthorne makes Hester the most “free” character by showcasing her transformation from ostracized sinner to an able woman of her letter in order to display the idea that repressed sin destroys the soul while openness and honesty sets a soul free. Hester was not burdened with the internal guilt that consumed her “fellow sinner”‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ because she had to wear her sin openly on her chest‚ forcing her to confront her sin and the stigma
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Dimmesdale refuses to stand with Pearl and his mistress Hester Prynne for their sins‚ but instead he claims that he would stand with them only before god himself. This supports his belief in salvation by faith rather than by works because he decides to only tell God of his sin and leave it a secret to the public
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Analysis with this lens shows the emotion she expends into her writing‚ and how it strengthens her style. The result of her emotional views caused reader Doris Grumbach to claim that her writing “results not so much in stories as it does a state of consciousness
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novel‚ Hester Prynne becomes a highly respected person in a Puritan society by overcoming one of the harshest punishments‚ the scarlet letter. This object on "her bosom"; however‚ does the exact opposite of that which it was meant for. Eventually‚ Hester Prynne inverts all the odds against here due to her courage‚ pride and effort. Hester went beyond the letter of the law and did everything asked of here in order to prove that she is "able." Hester became quite
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