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 presence in her society‚ even as it exiles her. Hester Prynne
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Hester‚ that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! Mine burns in secret! Thou little knowest what a relief it is after the torment of seven years’ cheat‚ to look into an eye that recognizes me for what I am! Had I one friend‚ or were it my worst enemy‚ to whom‚ when sickened with the praises of all other men‚ I could daily betake myself‚ and be known as the vilest of all sinners‚ methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. Even thus much of truth would save me! But now all is falsehood
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the author uses irony to expose the true character that Arthur Dimmesdale truly is.Dimmesdale is known‚ to the townspeople of the Puritan village in Boston‚ as a well spoken and profound minister who is their vision of God. Although Minister Arthur Dimmesdale has many qualities that make him stand out in the puritan community; his sinful secret that burdens him severely every day is heavily shown through the three main types of irony. The people of this
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Hester Prynne - Hester is the book’s protagonist and the wearer of the scarlet letter. The letter‚ a patch of fabric fit as a fiddle of "A‚" implies that Hester is a "adulterer." As a young lady‚ Hester wedded an elderly man‚ Chillingworth‚ who sent her ahead to America to live yet never tailed her. While waiting for him‚ she engaged in extramarital relations with a Puritan pastor named Dimmesdale‚ after which she brought forth Pearl her daughter. She meets both her spouse and her significant other
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter‚ the forest means different things to different people. To the honorable and respectable members of Puritan ‚ the forest is an evil and frightening place where witches lurk and the devil resides. To Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale‚ two people unable to speak their minds in Puritan community‚ the forest offers a place of refuge where they can be true with each other. To Pearl‚ the forest . The symbolism of the forest setting’s inherently good and bad natures
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secret changes someone’s personality‚ leading them to have self-doubt or guilt until that secret is out. After the secret is divulged‚ the character affected by the secret are more at peace than they were previously‚ being oblivious. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne focuses on the idea that having a secret changes a person in inconceivable ways‚ and that the only way to reverse effects of the secret being withheld is
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The Scarlet Letter – Journal #1 In chapters four through seven‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a plethora of rhetorical strategies to convey his purpose of emphasizing the character’s opinions and also to describe what is taking place in the particular chapter. In chapter four‚ there are many times when Hawthorne uses parallelism to emphasize the character’s opinions. For instance on page 51‚ paragraph one‚ Hawthorne quotes Roger Chillingworth using parallelism‚ “…in the eyes of men and women‚ -in the
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The scaffold is a huge symbol in “The Scarlet Letter” the scaffold is seen three times in the book and each time the four main characters can be seen. The scaffold represents a place where public humiliation takes place ‚this is a place where pence or punishment for sins happens. It also happens to be the place where Hawthorne shows the growth of each character. During each of the scaffold senses these four characters can be seen.At the beginning of the book we see Hester standing with Pearl with
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forests. Pearl has cleverly discerned the relationship between her mother’s mark of shame and the minister’s ailment‚ which share one obvious characteristic—their physical location upon the body. None of the townspeople has made the connection that Pearl now makes because they would never suspect their pastor to be capable of such a sin. Again‚ we see the problem with the Puritan “reading” of the world: intent on preserving the functional aspects of their society (i.e.‚ the minister as an icon of purity)
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one time or another. They say‚ child‚ thou art of the lineage of the Prince of Air! Wilt thou ride with me some fine night to see thy father? Then thou shalt know wherefore the minister keeps his hand over his heart!” (Chapter 22 Pg.230). In The Scarlet Letter Mistress Hibbins is the voice of society so one can infer that the rest of society also perceives Pearl as not only Hester’s sin‚ but also as the devil‚ which is why she is left to find companionship on her own leading her to do things in which
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