The Scarlet Letter assignment #1 – Chapter 2‚ pages 6-7: I used the Visualize the Scene category. I can see Hester Prynne emerging from the prison. I can see that she is ladylike‚ tall‚ and beautiful. I can see her in a beautiful dress with the A embroidered on it walking through the crowd with her head held high and a baby in her arms. #2 – Chapter 3‚ pages 13-16: I used the Ask a Question category. Who is this man who has come into the town with the Indian? Why does he question a townsman
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a book depicting the struggle of a woman who is spared death after committing adultery in a strict puritan society. The woman‚ Hester Prynne‚ was spared death only for the reason to make an example to the rest of the community. Throughout the book you can see the theme of how sin changes lives appear in almost every chapter and is an important driving factor behind the plot. This theme is shown through the actions of the three main characters: Hester Prynne
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Cause and Effect: The Scarlet Letter Set in Boston‚ in the Puritan times of the 1940’s‚ the book‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is about a young girl named Hester Prynne who commits adultery with the town’s minister‚ Arthur Dimmensdale. Hester is married to a man named Roger Chillingworth‚ a scholarly man‚ who sent her to Boston years earlier while he settled his affairs in Europe. Years passed and Chillingworth arrives in Boston to find his wife on a Scaffold being accused of adultery
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6) In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne employs figurative language to explain the symbolic character of Pearl before she becomes a woman. To Hester‚ her child who is often associated with sin is‚ “Her Pearl! ...she named the infant “Pearl”‚ as being of great price‚ --purchased with all she had‚ her mother’s only treasure!”(6‚1). This allusion of the Gospel of Matthew‚ the merchant man seeking goodly pearls gave up everything to get that one pearl‚ similarly connects to how Hester gave up
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Devon Hoover 9/27/12 Argumentative Essay Mrs. Johnson From the intriguing book The Scarlet Letter ‚ there are two men that have conflicting viewpoints on sin. One man‚ Rogers Chillingsworth‚ believed that all men should confess their sins to show that they also are not perfect and may be liable to sin. The other man Arthur Dimnesdale believed that some men that are privileged should not confess their sins openly and that no past is better redeemed but by good services. I whole heartedly
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Many characters go through transformations in The Scarlet Letter‚ and one of those characters is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of a puritan society‚ and it is the laws of that society‚ both written and unwritten‚ that Dimmesdale breaks and which causes the changes to occur. He commits the sin of adultery‚ and by sleeping with Hester Prynne‚ breaks the laws that he is supposed to represent. He cannot admit his sin because he is a holy man‚ and admitting his sin would
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In the novel "The Scarlet Letter"‚ the characters relationships and their actions are more based on what their community thinks of them. However in critical theory today‚ commodification is stated as "the act of relating to the objects or persons in terms of their exchange value" (Tyson 60). To add to that society will commodify each other when they "structure their relations with them to promote their own advancement financially or socially" (Tyson 60). Relationships of all types can all be judged
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The forest is a very important aspect of this novel. In The Scarlet Letter‚ there is a lot of secrecy and lying. The theme of this book is to be true‚ so it is obvious that there is a lot of lies being told. The forest gives shelter and secrecy to those who need it. In the town‚ there are so many rules‚ and if you do something wrong‚ someone is bound to see it. The forest offers Dimmesdale and Hester secrecy that they need when they have to talk to each other. While they are in the town‚ they are
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Mistress Hibbins‚ a characterin Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ is a widow who lives with her brother‚ Governor Bellingham‚ is his mansion. She often shows up when Hester is in a time of crisis. She is a secondary character‚ but she is an important one because she is sort of an all knowing character and shows things that no one else does. Mistresss Hibbins shows how the forest is outside of the town both literally and figuratively. The townspeople believe the forest is where evil takes place‚ but
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long awaited truth (Ch. 23‚ 195). The only time when Hester feels free is when she is in the woods with Pearl and Dimmesdale because she can escape the judgment from the townspeople (Ch. 17‚ 148). When Hester is in the woods she rips off the scarlet letter from her chest and lets her hair down‚ which shows that before that moment she was consumed by her sin and felt she could only be herself when she was in the woods (Ch.
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