be provided immediately by the founders of a new colony are a cemetery and a prison. 2. The rose bush outside the prison sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson. 3. The town people have gathered to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne. 4. The scarlet letter on her bodice is meant as punishment for her sin. The letter A stands for adultery. 5. Every new colony is quick in building a cemetery and prison because they know that misbehavior and death are inevitable. 6. Many of the
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English Hester’s Public Suffering vs. Dimmesdale’s Lie The Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is a novel set in the mid-seventeenth century‚ which tells the story of Hester Prynne‚ a woman who commits a sin in her home in Boston. With a child in her arms from another man who is not her husband‚ Hester is obligated to wear a scarlet ‘A’ (which stands for adultery) on her chest. As part of her sentence‚ she is locked up in prison with her daughter Peal‚ until she confesses who the child’s
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audience differ. In addition‚ he also discloses that Hawthorne utilizes the Puritans in the story act as the audience‚ who directly respond to the actions of Hester Prynne and other characters; the readers however‚ interpret the novel and are affected by the audience. The Scarlet Letter clearly conveys a surrogate audience to react to the actions of Hester and other central characters. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne utilizes the repressive authoritarian Puritans as a way to enable the equally condemning
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Major Themes Individual vs. Society The Scarlet Letter is a novel that describes the psychological anguish of two principle characters‚ Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimondale. They are both suffering under‚ while attempting to come to terms with‚ their mutual sin of adultery in a strict Puritan society. As critics immediately recognized upon publication of the novel in 1850‚ one of its principal themes involved conflict between the individual and society. Hawthorne represents the stern and threatening
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Puritan society. The author uses Hester to show that people who make mistakes will often face consequences that isolate them from their society. Throughout the Scarlet Letter‚ Hester experiences the effects of isolation and the outcome of sin due to the corrupt rules and strict moral values in the society. In the eyes of the Puritan society Hester is a true sinner due to her committing adultery. While being on display for the
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place‚ wehre thou couldst have escaped me‚ - save on this very scaffold.” 10. “Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world‚ if not your worst‚ yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred.” Here are some of the answers. 1. Hester is speaking. She is refusing to name the father of her child while on the scaffold. Her reply to the clergymen reveals her strength of character and loyalty to Dimmesdale. Although she feels shame‚ she is prepared to endure it alone. She is so
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of the event that takes place in the story. The setting of the story is in Salem‚ Massachusetts during the Puritan era. During the Puritan era‚ adultery was taken as a very serious sin‚ and this is what Hester and Dimmesdale committ with each other. Because of the sin‚ their lives change‚ Hester has to walk around in public with a Scarlet Letter “A” which stands for adultery‚ and she is constantly being tortured and is thought of as less than a person. Dimmesdale walks around with his sin kept as
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of recovery‚ until he confesses his sin and forgives himself. Dimmesdale is perceived as a sinless‚ superior and an upstanding man however; the culpability of his sin emerges from the beginning. As the town is out to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne‚ the people say‚ “that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale‚ her godly pastor‚ takes it very grievously to heart that such a scandal should have come upon his congregation” (49). The community sees Dimmesdale as a godly man who does not commit sin. The
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Dimmesdale. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of a puritan society‚ and it is the laws of that society‚ both written and unwritten‚ that Dimmesdale breaks and which causes the changes to occur. He commits the sin of adultery‚ and by sleeping with Hester Prynne‚ breaks the laws that he is supposed to represent. He cannot admit his sin because he is a holy man‚ and admitting his sin would mean losing the faith of his congregation. Instead he struggles with his sin and tortures himself in an effort to gain
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criminal as he came forth to his doom‚ in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him." Chapter 1‚ pg. 46 | -This rose-bush represents Pearl afterwards in Hester’s life. The prison reflects on the image of Hester where Pearl gives joy and comfort to Hester to bear the weight of the sin in her soul. | "On the breast of her gown‚ in fine red cloth‚ surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread‚ appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done
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