In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne used and changed traditional gender roles in his characters to support their personalities accordingly. Traditional gender roles typically include men being alpha; having personality traits such as dominance‚ strength‚ power‚ wealth and just being emotionless individuals. Women‚ however‚ are traditionally perceived as innocent‚ nurturing‚ dependent‚ weak‚ and dramatic individuals. In the Scarlet letter Hester starts out as a pregnant woman who is not following
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Scarlet Letter-Secret Theme One of the main themes in The Scarlet Letter is that of the secret. The plot of the book is centered around Hester Prynne’s secret sin of adultery. Nathaniel Hawthorne draws striking parallelism between secrets held and the physical and mental states of those who hold them. The Scarlet Letter demonstrates that a secret or feeling kept within slowly engulfs and destroys the soul‚ while a secret made public can allow a soul to recover and even strengthen.
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Gender roles often define women in mostly negative connotations‚ while men are displayed with positive attributions. The Scarlet Letter juxtaposes female and male characteristics to exemplify the societal struggle to maintain appearances in a patriarchal society. Hester Prynne defied the patriarchal norms by having an affair with the minister. As a result of this sin‚ ‘“she was banished‚ and as much alone as if she had inhabited another sphere.”’ (75) Hester’s defiance from the norms isolates her
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Throughout The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne establishes the character Pearl as having tenacity and peculiarity in her personality and traits. First‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne exaggerates Pearl’s qualities to establish her as an odd child and a separate person from the Puritan town she lives in. In chapter 7‚ after the governor asks Pearl who created her‚ she answers by saying ‘no one created her rather her mother plucked her from a wild rose bush near the prison.’ Hawthorne follows Pearl’s remark
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The Scarlet Letter: Chillingworth’s Significance Nathaniel Hawthorne’s morally diverse novel The Scarlet Letter provides a darkening perspective on the effects of sin‚ hypocrisy‚ and anguish portrayed in the human behavior of the villain. Fundamentally‚ “there are no secrets that time does not reveal”; therefore‚ Hawthorne enhances his purpose with the utilization of many antagonists whom portray this‚ but neither associating more importantly than Roger Chillingworth’s character. (Steen) For instance
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Sample Letter of Recommendation - Undergraduate Student Free Sample Recommendation Letter By Karen Schweitzer‚ About.com Guide A good letter of recommendation from a high school teacher can help undergraduate students get admitted to business programs. This sample letter of recommendation was written for an undergraduate program applicant. See more sample recommendation letters. ===Sample Letter of Recommendation=== To Whom It May Concern: Cheri Jackson is an extraordinary young
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Dr. Kings’ Letter One of the three rhetorical appeals Dr. King used in his letter was ethos. Ethos is an appeal to the writer’s credibility. In Dr. Kings’ essay he used this appeal in this quote‚ “But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth‚ I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.” King felt it was necessary for the non-violent approach to be taken so that communication could be
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Letter of Joy To which degree do I expose my distaste for writing technical or academia worthy essays? I could tell you that I had a horrendous experience which scarred me for life that on occasion demands psychiatric attention but that would be wishful thinking and a false presentation of myself. Maybe I can illustrate how over the many years from kindergarten to the final senior year of high school has my permeable brain been bashed with constant rules‚ regulations and format guidelines that
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