Behold! Behold! A dreadful witness if it!” (209). The crowd does not know what to make of his words‚ and they refuse to believe what he is implying. That is‚ until he “tore away the ministerial band from before his breast” (209)‚ revealing a scarlet letter of his own. After this‚ there is no denying Dimmesdale’s confession and the people are left in disbelief as they watch him slump down and whisper in his last breath that he deserved to die in
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The film is from 1934 and is about a book published in 1850‚ which tells a story set in 1642 and beyond. How well do you think the film adaptation of The Scarlet Letter represents life in Puritan colonial America? Where do you think it succeeds or fails? If you have read the book before‚ feel free to note differences between the film and the book to make your point. Think about how different the world looks
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emotion stemming from joy and laughter was unacceptable. With their strict rules‚ anyone who sinned was persecuted. The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ illustrates the story of Hester Prynne‚ a young woman condemned by Puritan society. She committed adultery with the minister of the church‚ Arthur Dimmesdale. With the intention to shame her‚ the town requires her to keep a red letter A permanently on her chest. Hester and her daughter‚ Pearl‚ live on the edge of the town‚ near the
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On Calvinism in Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter ZHONGHAO Diao Abstract: Hawthorne is a famous American writer. He wrote many excellent novels‚ which are popular among the readers at home and abroad. He lived in 19th century when Puritanism was still prevailing. And his family members were strict followers of Puritanism‚ who did lots of extreme misdeeds. This kind of family background had influenced Hawthorne a lot. These two factors both contributed to Hawthorne’s writing style and themes. He believed
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Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. It is the driving force behind the actions of the main antagonist Roger Chillingworth. In the novel his obsession for revenge is seen as an uncontrollable desire that consumes the character. Chillingworth told his wife‚ Hester Prynne‚ that he would find the adulterer and have him punished. He wanted Hester’s partner to suffer the same humiliation she had to endure. Chillingworth wanted him to stand on the scaffold for three hours‚ wearing a letter “A” and become
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Pearl is an ironic and contradictory symbolism of pure and gracefulness. It is ironic that she is the child born to two great sinners. The way Hawthorn creates Pearl is by combining great contradictions together. Pearl is a misbehaving and mischievous child always showered by praise and wrapped with great angelical beauty. Hawthorne begins to develop Pearl’s character by opening up with a short aphorism describing Pearl as a child with “no physical defects.” He builds off this statement about
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Scarlet Letter relates to the theme of individual versus society in various ways throughout the novel because of the main character’s (Hester) hardship with her secrets that were kept. Not only Hester but Dimmesdale and Chillingworth were keeping secrets from each other and the whole town. Hester has to control her desire to tell the truth and practices the art of deception to hide these secrets from others. Throughout the history of mankind‚ the use of deception to promote oneself to a higher
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making a poor decision that will affect the rest of her life. Its life everyone makes mistakes we’re all human.But what shes does is something she will have to live with for the rest of her life and never be able to take it back.In this book The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone.Hester is the main character‚and let’s get to the point;adulteress. In the beginning of the book‚Hester is forced to marry Roger Chillingworth.Although when they got married‚Hester felt no love in the relationship.Arthur
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The Scaffold In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ the character Arthur Dimmesdale is the central conflict of the story. He is torn between his need to accept and pronounce his sin and Pearl as his daughter and his love of freedom. His behavior drastically changes from the first scaffold scene‚ where he is seen as a hypocrite to the third and final scaffold scene‚ where he acknowledges his sin publicly. The three scaffold scenes in the book are very important‚ as they portray Dimmesdale’s
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reverend named Arthur Dimmesdale‚ aspiring to be him. Little did they know that the entire time that they idolized him‚ he was hiding a sinful secret that would relentlessly haunt his soul for the rest of his mortal life. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ Arthur Dimmesdale’s cowardice‚ misery‚ and faith are what ultimately led to his unfortunate demise. Arthur Dimmesdale was not in any sense brave; in fact‚ he was a major coward. After committing
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