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    In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne displays many examples of love and hatred throughout the story. Though Hawthorne shows that love and hatred both have the potential to harm‚ hatred has a greater tendency to cause pain. This is clearly seen in Hester’s love for Pearl and Chillingworth’s hatred for Dimmesdale. Pearl is not the easiest child to love‚ but the attributes Hester has attained over the years have allowed her to show motherly love regardless. One aspect of Hester’s love is her

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    Who’s In Charge Here? In The Scarlet Letter‚ the majority of the action happens not between characters‚ but within them. Guilt‚ passion‚ love‚ and hate all play key roles in the development of the novel. “The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes‚” a critique penned by Frederick C. Crews‚ explores the inner workings of Hawthorne’s characters. He argues that characters in The Scarlet Letter act not of their own accord‚ but instead are ruled absolutely by “feelings that [they] neither

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    Scarlet’s Change In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the scarlet letter portrays the image and a story of a young woman who has committed adultery and is forced to wear the scarlet letter “A” on the center of her chest. Hawthorne tells about her life and how she goes through life with the excruciating burden like that of sin. When Hester Prynne is first accused of committing adultery‚ the puritan society refuses to acknowledge her for they fear the effects of the scarlet letter. As time progresses

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    book Scarlet Letter I choose to use this song and relate it to Hester Prynne always gonna lover her daughter Pearl no matter how or what had happened. I choose the lyrics “I Will Always Love You” because this is showing how Hester will always love Pearl for herself and not regret her mistake she made as much but regret how she had done it quote in chapter 4 “God gave her into my keeping‚” repeated Hester Prynne‚ raising her voice almost to a shriek. “I will not give her up!” The scarlet letter made

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    The Scarlet Letter The Puritan Society is an important part of American history‚ it outlines America’s brief moment of theocracy and extreme social order. The Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ depicts Boston‚ Massachusetts during the time of puritanism and follows a young woman‚ Hester Prynne‚ through her trials and tribulations under her sin. The Scarlet Letter is repetitive of its time period through Dimmesdale’s state of religious anxiety and self-punishment‚ the glorification

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    How Hester Changes Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter is a story of love‚ sin‚ and self-realization. Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman who commits adultery‚ and as punishment she has to wear a scarlet “A” on her shirt everywhere she goes. Her society shuns her and she can no longer have normal relations. Hester Prynne is defined by the scarlet letter and goes through many changes throughout the novel. The letter isolates her and she can longer have normal relations with society

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    Kristin Moseley Professor Hooks English 101 20 July 2009 The Scarlet Letter: Literary Criticism Published in 1850‚ The Scarlet Letter is considered Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s most famous work‚ and the first quintessentially American novel in style‚ theme‚ and language. Set in seventeenth-century Puritan Massachusetts‚ the novel centers around the travails of Hester Prynne‚ who gives birth to daughter Pearl after an adulterous affair. Hawthorne ’s novel concerns the consequences of the affair

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    Marta Azarpour August‚ 30th 2011 English Hester’s Public Suffering vs. Dimmesdale’s Lie The Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is a novel set in the mid-seventeenth century‚ which tells the story of Hester Prynne‚ a woman who commits a sin in her home in Boston. With a child in her arms from another man who is not her husband‚ Hester is obligated to wear a scarlet ‘A’ (which stands for adultery) on her chest. As part of her sentence‚ she is locked up in prison with her daughter

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    Dimmesdale’s Arguments: 1. In chapter 8‚ Dimmesdale‚ Mr. Wilson‚ and Governor Bellingham are visited by Hester and Pearl at the Governor’s mansion. When pearl is asked “who made thee?”‚ she responds that she was not made‚ but rather "plucked . . . off the bush of wild roses that grew by the prison door.". This causes the governor and Mr. Wilson to immediately become horrified and ready to take Pearl from Hester’s custody. As Pearl protests her God given right for Pearls custody‚ she pleads that

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    God was strictly obeyed by the Puritans. Those found guilty of breaking this law‚ and any other of the Ten‚ were severely punished to a degree determined by the leader of the church. Hester Prynne‚ the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ is exposed as an adulteress-which creates the main conflict in the novel. Hester willingly sins against the laws of the church‚ thus causing the tragedy. Puritanism started in the sixteenth century as a movement to reform the Church of England

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