Arthur Dimmesdale was a very important character in The Scarlet Letter. He encountered many problems and resolved them throughout the novel. He changes a lot throughout the novel‚ physical and mentally. While reading the novel‚ the reader can relate to Dimmesdale by his actions and feelings. Minister Arthur Dimmesdale explains the moral of the story‚ and helps the reader understand what the novel is about. First‚ Dimmesdale encountered many problems throughout the story. These problems were very
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suffering; internal‚ external‚ and pain brought by others. These forms of suffering happen all the time in the real world and the fictional world. One of the examples of suffering in the fictional world can be seen in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book‚ The Scarlet Letter. Several people in the book are intimate with the definition of suffering‚ some suffering longer and more than others. In this book‚ the one person who had the most suffering placed on him was the well-known minister‚ Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale
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but‚ if entrusted to the wrong set of hands‚ it will lead to major destruction. Power has been given to everyone just in different amounts. What people do with the power they have is up to them‚ but‚ in many instances‚ it is misused. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hawthorne creates a story that shows the abuse of power by people in different social statuses in Puritanical society. The abuse of power between the Puritans in Hawthorne’s story and people in American society today displays
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that Hester is forgiven but on the other hand dimmesdale and chillingworth are not. Based on my thoughts and opinion on Hester I feel that she is forgive and here sins still stick with her.I think that she has done her time and earns to take her letter if yet when given the choice she chooses to keep it on which is very good of her. Yes Hester did have a child at a young age which
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The Scarlett Letter The Scarlett Letter is about a woman named Hester. Hester is living a normal life when out of no where she is accused of being with someone outside her marriage. Back in June 1642 it was illegal to be with someone outside of your marriage. Hester was also pregnant and refused to tell anyone who her unborn child father was.If you were caught committing adultery you had to showcase to everyone what kind of person you are. So since Hester was suspected of adultery the town made
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The preface to Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ “The Custom House”‚ serves to introduce the society and times in which the story is set; also‚ this essay provides the background story for the finding of the scarlet letter. The Custom House also provides a definition of what a romance is. Excerpts from “The Custom House” essay closely link to The Scarlet Letter’s text. Two notable examples of these parallels can be found in the descriptions given of the townspeople in Salem who live by ancient moral
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Diamond Campbell Mrs. Macpherson Period 7 2/22/14 Feminism in the scarlet letter Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of political‚ social‚ and economic equality to men. In Nathaniel hawthorns The Scarlet letter Hester Prynne is the main example of feminism. Hester Prynne is a good example of feminism because she did not go for the usual role of women during her time. She became a independent and strong women by following her own rules‚ living by her own choices and being
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Perhaps the foremost purpose of The Scarlet Letter is to illustrate the difference between shaming someone in public and allowing him or her to suffer the consequences of an unjust act privately. According to the legal statutes at the time and the prevailing sentiment of keeping in accordance with a strict interpretation of the Bible‚ adultery was a capital sin that required the execution of both adulterer and adulteress--or at the very least‚ severe public corporal punishment. Indeed‚ even if the
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Scarlet Letter/Crucible Essay The presence of guilt has been felt by all human beings. As guilt grows in a person’s life it eventually begins to have a deteriorating effect on the individual. In both The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible more than one of the characters are experiencing some form of guilt and the effects of the public’s opinion on their own personal sins. Each character’s guilt originates from a different personal problem and with each character’s guilt comes
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Mulholland College Literature February 21‚ 2012 Life Struggles in The Scarlet Letter and Frankenstein If you read a lot of classic literature‚ you can usually see multiple similarities in them. Whether the plots or themes are alike‚ they convey similar messages. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ there are very similar life struggles that the characters go through. The main characters of each novel; Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ and the
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