Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter as an exemplum on pride. His creation of Hester Prynne‚ the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter‚ and her selflessness was the moral behind keeping her alive. The characters in The Scarlet Letter are nothing more than symbols representing abstract qualities and are dispensable. Names play an important role in The Scarlet Letter it is Hawthorne ’s way of distinguishing not just the characters but their personalities. The latter is the most important when
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from the Garden of Eden. This isolation was the consequence of their sin. One of the major themes in The Scarlet Letter is the isolation and destruction of relationships of the characters living in this fictional Puritan community. This isolation is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne through three major characters: Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth. Throughout The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne emphasizes Hester Prynne’s isolation as a consequence of her sin. The reader knows
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books. He could not believe she‚ who was so beautiful‚ could marry a man "misshapen since my birth hour." He deluded himself that his intellectual gifts dazzled her and she forgot his irregularity. He now realizes that from the moment they met‚ the scarlet letter would be the end of their path. By Chapter 14‚ when Hester meets him in the forest‚ Chillingworth has a blackness in his visage and a red light showing out of his eyes‚ as if "the old man’s soul were on fire‚ and kept on smoldering duskily
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne one of the main characters in Hester Prynne. She is a convicted adulterer‚ and the story follows her starting in 1642 in a Puritan town. She and her illegitimate daughter‚ Pearl‚ along with her lover‚ Dimmesdale‚ and husband‚ Chillingworth‚ are the main focus of this dramatic tale. Through her actions and words‚ Pearl is a “device” to move the consciences of her parents to end their sinful situation. Pearl’s physical obsession with the scarlet A torments
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reading the Scarlet Letter. Roger Chillingworth is Hester Prynne’s husband. He is a physician‚ but he is not your ordinary friendly doctor. Chillingworth works for "the Black Man" and tortures what we learn later to be Hester’s "baby daddy"‚ who is also a minister for the local church‚ Reverend Dimmesdale. Your hatred doesn’t develop after reading the first chapter. Your opinion is formed steadily‚ and your anger grows more intensely. Chillingworth is the most hated character in the Scarlet Letter because
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we’ve shared together. I feel that a shadow as thick as a velvet curtain has been pulled from my eyes. How could I have been so blind to not have known? To not have known that my own husband‚ Sir Percy Blakeney‚ is none other than the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel himself! Imagine that? The man whom we all believed‚ even me his wife‚ to be a simpleton‚ a mere charming fool incapable of nothing more than inhaling his snuff in fact is a hero of the people. I feel in torment now‚ and I fear for his
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The Scarlett Letter Guilt clutches at the lives of many of the Earth’s inhabitants. Some feel it more than others‚ and for different reasons. The Scarlet Letter portrays one of the more serious reasons for guilt‚ adultery. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlett Letter in 1850. This book is about the adulterous lives of Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale. Hester has been forced to wear a “Scarlett” letter A for the rest of her life to repent for her crime. Dimmesdale‚ while he bares no direct
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Unfortunately sin can often lead to isolation. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne‚ a beautiful young woman who is chastised for adultery‚ and Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Boston’s beloved minister who is the father of Hester’s baby‚ both begin doleful lives of isolation after Hester’s sin is revealed. After Hester is sent to Boston by her husband‚ who says he will shortly join her‚ she has an affair with the town’s preacher‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ which results in a daughter‚ Pearl.
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Matthews Mrs. Tubbs AP English 02 October 2012 The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel filled with important symbols‚ each with many meanings. Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ author of The Scarlet Letter‚ knew how to express these symbolswith a creative tough. He used the “A”‚ the scaffold‚ and the prison to describe the Puritan society. The symbols or The Scarlet Letter help create a theme‚ the conflict‚ and the characters. The scarlet “A” makes its way to be the most important symbol in
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Regaining God’s Love The Scarlet Letter tackles topics rarely discussed in that time period. The book relates the harshness of an over-religious community. As well as the strength of a single woman and her trials with an unforgiving religion. The way Hawthorne depicts Hester shows the readers that‚ despite her circumstances‚ she can remain strong and accept the consequences of her sin. She never denies her sin and accepts the punishment that was given to her by her Puritan community. This woman
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