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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In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ the respected minister Arthur Dimmesdale deceives his community‚ preventing the townspeople from seeing the truth that he has sinned and hidden his secret. When his guilt finally overcomes him‚ he fantasizes about confessing the secret of his adultery to his congregation seven years after he committed the sin‚ but the people do not believe what he says. Rather than believing him‚ they believe the deception he has been showing them. He shows the community a perfect
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Literature have their own answers to the question. Independence is a concept with a constantly changing‚ dynamic description. Three characters that reflect the developing idea of independence are Hester Prynne‚ Jim‚ and Walter Lee Younger. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel about a Puritan community that shuns Hester Prynne for doing what she believes makes her independent. Hester Prynne’s original grasp of what independence means is that it means living on
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We started listing names that would do something like that and we came up with these. Mrs.white‚ Colonel Mustard‚ Professor plum‚ Mrs. Peacock‚ Mr. Green‚ and Miss scarlet. Yeah yeah‚ we know these people are older than us but we couldn’t figure out any high schooler that would do such a crime. So after that we went back to the crime scene were the murder happened. We made it there to find nothing‚ we couldn’t find
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Character Development Scarlet Letter In the book the “Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne the character Chillingworth changes multiple times in the story‚ unfortunately he keeps getting worse and worse. Chillingworth turns from the knowable scholar‚ to a symbol of evil‚ to the point where he is even portrayed as the devil. In chapter 3 on page 53 it describes Chillingworth‚ it says “There was a remarkable intelligence in his features…one of the mans shoulders rose higher than the other”
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Facts 1. What two necessities‚ according to Hawthorne. must the founders of a new colony provide immediately? 2. Under whose footsteps was the rose-bush outside the prison supposed to have sprung up? 3. What is the significance of the scarlet letter A which is embroidered on Hester’s gown? Interpreting Meanings 5. What conclusion can you draw from the fact that every new colony must provide a prison and a cemetery at once? 6. How do most of the townspeople regard Hester’s punishment—as
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Robyn Walz 9/01/2013 Prompt 2 Sexist Punishments? : Protofeminism in The Scarlet Letter In the eyes of some‚ The Scarlet Letter may seem like a protofeminist novel. In the eyes of some‚ had Hester been a man‚ her punishment would not have been nearly as embarrassing and deceitful. In the eyes of some‚ Hester did nothing but the right thing based on her trying to protect other women from gender-based prosecution‚ though it meant completely disregarding Puritan laws in her society. Then again‚
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Luke Sousa Professor Hogg Comm-126-1037 2 January 2016 Module Eight Lesson Four Mastery Assignment: The Scarlet Letter Chapters 13-19 a. What do many townspeople now say the A represents? The townspeople now believe the A stands for “able” rather than the real intention being “adulterer” b. Why does Hester feel she is to blame for Dimmesdale’s poor condition? Hester feels that she is to blame for Dimmesdale’s poor condition because while Dimmesdale has been torturing himself over his secret and
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In the novel‚ “The Scarlet Letter‚” Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the scene of 17th century Puritan Boston. The novel was written in Salem and Concord Massachusetts during the late 1840s‚ but was not published until 1850. The narrator of the novel is an unknown Custom House surveyor that discovers the records and a manuscript written by a previous surveyor‚ detailing the events while working in and tidying up the attic one day. The fictional story depicts the life and struggles of Hester Prynne as
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