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    Have you ever had something that brings you both joy and torture? In the book the Scarlet letter the main character Pearl punishes her mother by constantly reminding her of the horrible deed that she has done‚ yet Pearl also brings Hester joy. The author-Nathaniel Hawthorn-uses Pearl as a symbol of punishment and a gift. The author uses symbols and diction to convey the theme that even the most brutal of punishments can be confernting. Hawthorne uses diction to showhow Hester’s precious Pearl

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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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    minister’s clothing‚ and‚ upon witnessing the dark secret on the minister’s bare chest‚ becomes engulfed in vengeful delight. The leech‚ unable to contain his ecstasy‚ releases it in a cathartic dance as he flails and sways like a madman. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne argues that sin has detrimental and severe lasting effects on one’s life. Through the use of third person omniscient point of view and the characterization of the vengeful and obsessed Roger Chillingworth‚ Hawthorne delineates

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    impressed as if they beheld her for the first time‚ - was that SCARLET LETTER‚ so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom” (51). This quote perfectly describes the Scarlet Letter and how it will be affecting Hester for the remainder of her life. Her punishment (to wear the letter “A” on her breast) will always create stares of judgment‚ wonder‚ and disgrace. This quote caught my attention because the scarlet letter must be something so interesting that people who Hester knew were

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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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    In chapter two of The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne describes Hester Prynne as she stands on a pedestal in front of her community and gets publicly condemned for her adultery. Hawthorne shows the irony in the situation through the symbol of Pearl being just as sinful as the letter A embroidered on Hester’s clothing. He also irony irony in describing the A and how it is so similar to how Hester herself is portrayed. Lastly‚ Hawthorne describes Hester’s physical beauty and the irony of how 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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    a hill — a place where the eyes of all people are upon us‚ but‚ as Hawthorne acknowledges with this novel‚ this ideology was overshadowed by their tendency to condemn the sinner‚ rather than forgive and uplift. Accordingly‚ Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter in order to expose the hypocrisy of judgment in general. He uses the Puritan society to illustrate how people often judge others for their sins and use others as scapegoats to direct attention away from their own sins. The five gossips in chapter

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    Part 1: Short Answer Answer the questions below on The Scarlet Letter and "In Reference to Her Children." Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences. 1.Identify and explain an emotion that Bradstreet expresses in her poem that any mother might have. Any mother would feel the same stress she did towards her children. 2.Read Bradstreet’s biography. List two hardships she endured throughout her life. Then‚ in at least two sentences‚ explain how these hardships might have influenced her

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    however‚ what kind of pain is what makes each situation unique to an individual. The idea of being denied the right to feel safe and welcomed by the people around you is a heart breaking and depressing thought that Hester experienced in “The Scarlet Letter”‚ when she is punished for finding another lover‚ while still being married‚ and having a child with the man her affair was with. Hester is given the punishment of being socially unaccepted by the people around her when she is forced to wear

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