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    story The Scarlet Letter including‚ Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth. Some characters keep secrets in this story so they don’t get in trouble. But Hester Prynne‚ with a mind of native courage and activity‚ and for so long a period not merely estranged‚ but outlawed‚ from society‚ had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman. She had wandered‚ without rule or guidance‚ in a moral wilderness. The scarlet letter was her passport

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    you place in history. Inspire‚ soar‚ excel. Your job is to help a deaf person hear the music. They should feel the emotions of the music‚ just by watching you from the stands. Above all‚ you are the emotional connection to the music. That’s what color guard is‚ that’s what performing is. Your best run won’t happen on finals night. It wont happen in front of hundreds of thousands fans screaming for you. It’s going to happen on the practice field‚ where only your staff and members can see you.

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    Written in 1850’s‚The Scarlet Letter made Nathaniel Hawthorne even more acknowledged than he was and making other famous authors like James Henry place him on a higher pedestal than ever in stating in his Hawthorne about him that “He was a beautiful‚ natural ‚original genius and his life had been singularly exempt from worldly preoccupations and vulgar efforts .It had been as pure ‚as simple ‚as unsophisticated ‚ as his work .He had lived primarily in his domestic affections ‚which were of the

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    In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne’s purpose for the ” A” was to demonstrate the clear absence of feminism in the 1850’s when the story takes place. Hester Prynne‚ the heroine of The Scarlet Letter‚ is a strong independent woman who demonstrates wisdom. Instead of allowing herself to be a victim of her situation and Puritan contempt‚ she lives as a irrepressible woman and does not allow herself to be controlled by particular normalities. Hester committed adultery while her husband was

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    The Scarlet Letter Essay Prompt #1 As far as women are discussed in past societies‚ they are usually not the heroes. Nathaniel Hawthorne thought otherwise in his literary work‚ The Scarlet Letter. Heroes are often characterized as courageous‚ strong‚ and ones with humility. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s character Hester Prynne exhibits all of these qualities of heroism. Due to Hester Prynne taking responsibility for her sin of adultery and deciding to continue to work arduously in a society where she is

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    Arthur Dimmesdale was a very important character in The Scarlet Letter. He encountered many problems and resolved them throughout the novel. He changes a lot throughout the novel‚ physical and mentally. While reading the novel‚ the reader can relate to Dimmesdale by his actions and feelings. Minister Arthur Dimmesdale explains the moral of the story‚ and helps the reader understand what the novel is about. First‚ Dimmesdale encountered many problems throughout the story. These problems were very

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    Skyler Vincent English 2333 Amanda Cuellar April 04‚ 2012 In The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter‚ they are both known to be a part of the Puritan religion. The puritans are known to be very strict. Often people are put to cruel punishments for mistakes or sins they had committed. The actions they take to “punish” a person are extreme. The Puritans act and seem so committed to their religion. The people seem “Holy” but you never really know what happens behind closed doors. The Puritan religion

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    “The mother­child relationship...requires the most intense love on the mother’s side‚” according to Erich Fromm‚ a German psychologist. The love that Hester expresses toward her daughter Pearl in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ and the lessons that she teaches her are what makes Hester a great mother. In return‚ Pearl improves Hester’s public image with her beauty and keeps Hester’s emotions and actions in check. The way these two characters subconsciously complement each other forms a

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    Often‚ two people can commit the same sin‚ but deal with it differently. Guilt can be dealt with in two ways: publicly or privately. In The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale both commit adultery‚ and both Hester and Dimmesdale deal with guilt from the sin they committed in completely different ways. Hawthorne writes about dealing with guilt publicly and privately to show the emotional and sometimes physical toll of guilt based on how people choose to deal

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    the forbidden acts of drunkenness‚ blasphemy‚ and adultery. In The Scarlet Letter‚ the church enacts harsh sentences of incarceration and public shaming in order to discipline the presumed sinners. Even though these punishments seek to inflict harm and cause suffering to their victims‚ Hawthorne uses their cruelty to elicit the truth. Presenting a major symbol of Puritan punishment‚ Hawthorne employs the harshness of the scarlet letter to allow Hester to discover her own strength and beauty. Under

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