The Role of the Scaffold‚ “the Platform of Pillory”‚ in the Scarlett Letter and what it represented Thesis: The Scaffold was the platform of humiliation. The Scarlet Letter is a novel that revolves around the repercussion of an adulterous encounter in Puritan Boston. It emerged that a young beautiful woman (Hester Prynne) bears child with a respected clergyman (Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale). According to the Puritan Code‚ this would lead to public condemnation and mockery hence the two “partners in
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Arthur Dimmesdale’s Guilt and Hypocrisy By Ashlyn R. Thomas In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gripping tale‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ a revered Puritan minister suffers from cowardly guilt and hypocrisy after he commits adultery in this novel staged in the seventeenth century. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ who hides himself in the shame of his lover‚ Hester Prynne‚ protects his reputation among the Puritan people. The scaffold‚ a public symbol of disgrace‚ contrasts with the pastor’s silent sin of adultery. When Hester
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1804. After his graduation from Bowdoin College in Maine‚ he quickly became a well-known author of literary tales concerning early American life. Between 1825 and 1850‚ he developed his talent by writing short fiction‚ and he gained international fame for his fictional novel The Scarlet Letter in 1850 (Clendenning 118). Rufus Wilmot Griswold stated‚<br><br>The frivolous costume and brisk action of the story of fashionable life are easily depicted
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Symbolism in "The Scarlet Letter" "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is full of many different themes‚ symbols‚ ironies‚ and conflicts. All of these aspects are crucial to the construction and dramatization of the plot. In literature‚ symbolism is the deepness and hidden meaning behind the story. Symbolism plays a major role in developing the themes of Hawthorne ’s "The Scarlet Letter"; symbols such as the rosebush at the prison‚ Hester ’s daughter Pearl‚ and the Scarlet Letter itself
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter follows the life of Hester Prynne after she commits adultery and is forced to wear the scarlet letter upon her bosom for the rest of her life. Hawthorne uses setting‚ allusion‚ metaphor‚ irony‚ and diction to set a sombre tone. In chapter 9‚ Hawthorne reveals the evil qualities of Roger Chillingworth and Reverend Dimmesdale’s disposition. In the battle of good and evil‚ good does not always win. Upon Roger Chillingworth’s arrival to Boston‚ he discovers
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Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates the effects of sin through the actions of his characters and circumstances they must bear daily. While living in a world with many complexities the temptation of sin lurks everywhere. Most sins‚ the offences against one’s morals‚ are ordinarily committed to seek pleasure. Similar to that of Hester Prynne along with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale’s sin: “…this had been a sin of passion‚ not of principle nor even purpose.” (Hawthorne 184) The rest of the
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The character of Roger Chillingworth has been presented to audiences as a spiteful and conniving old man through imagery by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne does not stop at just imagery either ‚ he uses his full literary Arsenal in chapter 10 to ensure the audience is aware of Chillingworth’s true and vile nature. At the beginning of the chapter Hawthorne uses a matter of fact tone when describing Chillingworth past. This description of Chillingworth gives the audience a basis of his past personality
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would be revealed‚ in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness” (ch.24).The definition of feminism would be women are inherently equal to men and deserve equal rights and opportunities. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne is the key example for feminism in the novel. In Puritan times‚ women were thought of as lesser than men. Women’s purposes were to raise children and give them good morals and values. Women did not have
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punishments for any sin or crime committed. The fraudulent society the puritans created‚ depicted by Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter‚ as well as the horrible society that was created in Lord of the Flies by William Golding deliver insight into all of the problems that people experience when trying to self-govern themselves and the people around them. In both The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ the authors suggest that ignoring the flaws in one’s own society
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne’s first appearance in the novel is described in a way that characterizes her with an individualistic appearance and the refusal to be shamed by society. She is the physical manifestation of the rebellion against traditional ways and values. Hawthorne explains this with the use of metaphor and imagery. Hawthorne uses metaphors to convey the rebellious nature of Hester Prynne’s presence outside of the prison. Hawthorne uses the term “black
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