This title serves to describe and state what the first chapter is about. These pages give an insight into the narrator’s life‚ which is similar to that of Hawthorne‚ and the custom house in which he works in and made a crucial discovery in. The narrator is setting the scene through the discovery of the scarlet letter. In conjunction with the discovery of the scarlet letter the narrator also found a scroll from which parts of his story came‚ and in this discovery he states that this is a partly fictional
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In "Roger Malvin’s Burial‚" Hawthorne presents the story of a man who lies to his wife about how he helped her father in his dying days. The young man‚ Reuben Bourne‚ and his girlfriend’s father‚ Roger Malvin‚ have been left wounded by a battle. After journeying for three days‚ Roger can no longer go on. Despite his request to Reuben that he should go home to his daughter‚ Dorcas‚ Reuben refuses and wants to stay by Roger’s side until he dies. However‚ Reuben decides that he can try to save Roger
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I‚ Pearl‚ was born an outcast of this prejudice world. Today marks my twentieth birthday. My mother‚ Hester‚ my father‚ Dimmesdale‚ and the town’s people of the Massachusetts Bay Colony know I am the living Scarlet Letter. Since the day I was born my mother has had to wear that dreadful symbol. The Scarlet Letter represented my mother as an adulterer. The older I grow‚ the more I realize that my mother has always done so much for me. Her love was patient and forgiving in times when I pushed her
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Set in 17th century Puritan Salem‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter‚ tells the story of Hester Prynne‚ who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Hawthorne’s novel is filled with much symbolism. In chapter 5‚ Hawthorne uses her clothing to reveal Hester’s self-perception as self-loathing‚ to depict society against her‚ and to explore the nature of her daughter’s conception. Hawthorne uses Hester’s needlework to portray
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Nathaniel Hawthorne uses names and colors as useful symbols in The Scarlet Letter to reveal important aspects of the novel. The main symbol that Hawthorne uses is the red ‘A’. He uses it so often that the reader could not possibly forget about it. He uses the color red to symbolize sin and love and the letter ‘A’ to stand for adultery. He also uses symbolism in the names of some of the characters‚ including Roger Chillingworth‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Pearl. Each of their names represents their personality
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Since Hester Prynne has sinned and demoralized the town of Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ there has been argument regarding the new mother’s punishment. People of the town have wondered if she should be able to keep her child‚ if she should be able to be one in the crowd‚ and even if she should be able to live. Hester Prynne’s consequences are not harsh enough for her unholy actions‚ and they should be modified to better suit God’s wishes. Hester Prynne should not be allowed to carry on in our society after
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There is undoubtedly a long-term impact that the affair will cause for both Hester and Pearl. One of the biggest arguments is that Hester is undeserving of her daughter for the fact that Pearl is an innocent girl who is fit for better parents. Whereas if she isn’t a normal human child‚ as some claim‚ Pearl isn’t deserving of a mother like Hester. Some may also say that Hester is undeserving of a child as well because she shouldn’t be blessed with such a great gift‚ the gift of a daughter. Some of
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Dimmesdale’s new strange feelings about himself can be described as him changing how he views the world and himself. He transformed from the weak dying man who went into the forest‚ to a man with a new sense of purpose and energy. Hester’s idea to leave the Puritan society influenced his new way of thinking. The church elder‚ one of the deacons from his church‚ addressed him with paternal affection and had upright and holy character. The wise man of old age payed his respects to Dimmesdale for his
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In these chapters‚ Hester visits the governor’s mansion. She wants to find out if the rumors that Pearl might be taken away from her are true. When she finally meets with the governor she begs him to not take her daughter away from her. They agree to not separate the mother and child‚ and Pearl seems to take a liking to the governor. Chillingworth tries to convince the governor to reopen the case of revealing who the father of Pearl is‚ but he refuses. Chillingworth changed his name upon his arrival
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As some know time affects people and communities as a whole. In The Scarlet Letter the main character‚ Hester‚ is a woman that has a child out of wedlock. Hester is then punished with the agonising fate of wearing her shame until the end of her days. This punishment is incorrect for the time period at which Hawthorne places his Salem. This shows how Hawthorne disagrees with Puritanical doctrine. This then shows how the time period has an affect on the people in Hawthorne’s Salem due to the Puritanical
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