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    Cause and Effect: The Scarlet Letter Set in Boston‚ in the Puritan times of the 1940’s‚ the book‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is about a young girl named Hester Prynne who commits adultery with the town’s minister‚ Arthur Dimmensdale. Hester is married to a man named Roger Chillingworth‚ a scholarly man‚ who sent her to Boston years earlier while he settled his affairs in Europe. Years passed and Chillingworth arrives in Boston to find his wife on a Scaffold being accused of adultery

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    6) In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne employs figurative language to explain the symbolic character of Pearl before she becomes a woman. To Hester‚ her child who is often associated with sin is‚ “Her Pearl! ...she named the infant “Pearl”‚ as being of great price‚ --purchased with all she had‚ her mother’s only treasure!”(6‚1). This allusion of the Gospel of Matthew‚ the merchant man seeking goodly pearls gave up everything to get that one pearl‚ similarly connects to how Hester gave up

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    In the novel "The Scarlet Letter"‚ the characters relationships and their actions are more based on what their community thinks of them. However in critical theory today‚ commodification is stated as "the act of relating to the objects or persons in terms of their exchange value" (Tyson 60). To add to that society will commodify each other when they "structure their relations with them to promote their own advancement financially or socially" (Tyson 60). Relationships of all types can all be judged

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    The forest is a very important aspect of this novel. In The Scarlet Letter‚ there is a lot of secrecy and lying. The theme of this book is to be true‚ so it is obvious that there is a lot of lies being told. The forest gives shelter and secrecy to those who need it. In the town‚ there are so many rules‚ and if you do something wrong‚ someone is bound to see it. The forest offers Dimmesdale and Hester secrecy that they need when they have to talk to each other. While they are in the town‚ they are

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    Many characters go through transformations in The Scarlet Letter‚ and one of those characters is Reverend Arthur 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

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    The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a book depicting the struggle of a woman who is spared death after committing adultery in a strict puritan society. The woman‚ Hester Prynne‚ was spared death only for the reason to make an example to the rest of the community. Throughout the book you can see the theme of how sin changes lives appear in almost every chapter and is an important driving factor behind the plot. This theme is shown through the actions of the three main characters: Hester Prynne

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    Hester challenges that and creates chaos in her Puritan society. Even as Hester is exiled‚ she harbors the determination to still be remembered. She achieves this by using her needlework to decorate fabrics. As lusciously as she embroidered her own letter on her chest‚ she soon embroiders almost anything that is worn. “By degrees‚ nor very slowly‚ her handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion” (79). This shows Hester’s resilience to her punishments as she still finds a way to import her

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    in The Scarlet Letter It is possible for someone to become so consumed by revenge that his health suffers. He has been wronged by someone and believe in “tit for a tat”‚ so they choose getting even instead of forgiveness. This may seem like the easiest and fairest way to live life‚ but it can completely occupy lives and cloud judgment. Roger Chillingworth chose to take revenge on Dimmesdale (for the affair the minister had with his wife) in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. His need

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    long awaited truth (Ch. 23‚ 195). The only time when Hester feels free is when she is in the woods with Pearl and Dimmesdale because she can escape the judgment from the townspeople (Ch. 17‚ 148). When Hester is in the woods she rips off the scarlet letter from her chest and lets her hair down‚ which shows that before that moment she was consumed by her sin and felt she could only be herself when she was in the woods (Ch.

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    In the story‚ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ sacrifice runs through almost every character. One specific person who portrays this kind of trait towards the end of the book is DImmesdale. He sacrifices the sin he created with Hester and his placement with everyone else when he finally exposes the “A” for all to see. Dimmesdale is fond of Hester‚ but he could never share the sin he committed. No one can find out. People who are selfish never realize the impact they make on other’s lives

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