diction‚ syntax‚ tone‚ examples‚ analogy‚ and/or contrast. Hester Pryne is the main character of the Scarlett Letter‚ she’s the woman who has an affair with Dimmesdale and has a baby girl‚ Pearl. Dimmesdale is the pastor of the community and keeps the affair a secret‚ which would eventually cause him to have a heart attack‚ which in turn ends his life. Hester has been alienated from the community because of her affair. Hester is one that is usually rational to others‚ but she’s not going to
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develop a deeper understanding of historical context and this theme. Hester lived in a Puritan society during the seventeenth century. During this time‚ people lived strictly based off their religion. However‚ Hester committed adultery; which was punishable by death. Despite this‚ Hester’s punishment was issued by the court‚
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attempt to do so sexually. Females have the ability to achieve their sexual liberation despite the patriarchal societies in which they live. Two females which have attempted to achieve sexual liberation are Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter and Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar named Desire. Both Hester Prynne and Blanche Dubois’s attempts to achieve sexual liberation were hindered by the patriarchal societies in which they lived in; making only one of them successful. The Scarlet Letter‚ written in 1850
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some‚ The Scarlet Letter may seem like a protofeminist novel. In the eyes of some‚ had Hester been a man‚ her punishment would not have been nearly as embarrassing and deceitful. In the eyes of some‚ Hester did nothing but the right thing based on her trying to protect other women from gender-based prosecution‚ though it meant completely disregarding Puritan laws in her society. Then again‚ in the eyes of some‚ Hester deserved all of the harassment and harsh‚ negative attention that she received from
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Hester Prynne a victim of adultery and deals with shame. Thinking of Hester’s story reminds me of a story I know‚ Chris Herrens story. Knowing they both live in a judging world‚ Chris and Hester know they’re innocent people. Chris a former basketball stud developed and alcohol addiction and drug addiction. He wasn’t a criminal‚ he lived with a problem that did affect his friends and family. When the world knew about Chris’s problem they were sad and felt ashamed. Hester Commits adultery and the
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literature‚ and philosophy. Transcendentalism is also largely about love and romanticism. Both hypocrisy and the concept of true love are heavily present in Hawthorne ’s novel. In The Scarlet Letter hypocrisy is evident everywhere. The characters of Hester‚ Dimmesdale‚ Chillingworth‚ and the very society that the characters lived in‚ were steeped in hypocrisy. Hawthorne was not subtle in his portrayal of the terrible sin of hypocrisy; he made sure it was easy to see the sin at work‚ just as it is easy
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The Scarlet Letter can easily be seen as an early feminist piece of work. Nathaniel Hawthorne created a story that exemplifies Hester as a strong female character living with her choices‚ whether they were good or bad‚ and also as the protagonist. He also presents the daughter of Hester‚ Pearl‚ as an intelligent female‚ especially for her age. He goes on to prove man as imperfect through both the characters of Dimmesdale and of Chillingworth. With the situation that all the characters face‚ Hawthorne
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this song and relate it to Hester Prynne always gonna lover her daughter Pearl no matter how or what had happened. I choose the lyrics “I Will Always Love You” because this is showing how Hester will always love Pearl for herself and not regret her mistake she made as much but regret how she had done it quote in chapter 4 “God gave her into my keeping‚” repeated Hester Prynne‚ raising her voice almost to a shriek. “I will not give her up!” The scarlet letter made Hester a better person than she was
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the novel‚ Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the characters Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth. Hester has to live with the darkness of her sin every day‚ yet she finds ways to help people and it shows that she is often times charitable when others would not be. “Except for that small expenditure in the decoration of her infant‚ Hester bestowed all her superfluous means in charity‚ on wretches less miserable than herself‚ and who not
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– Aphra Behn. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is forced to wear the letter “A” as punishment because she committed adultery‚ when her husband was away. In the beginning of the story‚ Hester Prynne does not reveal the name of the other sinner‚ but later it is revealed to be the minister‚ Arthur Dimmesdale. A theme Hawthorne uses in the story is public sin versus private sin and is given throughout the Hester and Dimmesdale have to face. Using that theme‚ Dimmesdale’s sin
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