was a small town called Everbloom. In the‚ dense‚ green‚ woods that bordered that town lived a fiery “orphan” girl named Scarlet. The 17 year old had blazing red hair‚ ash grey eyes and olive skin that‚ from being in the woods most of her life‚ faded to relatively pale. She was known to be mysterious‚ but really she was just like any other anti-social teen. Well‚ sorta. Scarlet had been an “orphan” for as long as she could remember. If you’re wondering why I’m putting quotes around the word orphan
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"To be fully human is to balance the heart‚ the mind‚ and the spirit.” One could suggest the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ that one should not violate the sanctity of the human heart. Hester was well ahead of her time‚ and believed that love was more important than living in a lie. Dimmesdale’s theology and his inclinations render him almost incapable of action; Chillingsworth dammed himself‚ along with Dimmesdale. Hester was “frank with [Chillingsworth].”
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but‚ if entrusted to the wrong set of hands‚ it will lead to major destruction. Power has been given to everyone just in different amounts. What people do with the power they have is up to them‚ but‚ in many instances‚ it is misused. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hawthorne creates a story that shows the abuse of power by people in different social statuses in Puritanical society. The abuse of power between the Puritans in Hawthorne’s story and people in American society today displays
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the five main characters were faced with the immense challenge of forgiving the people who had committed wrongs against them. Whether those indiscretions be the sin of adultery or the act of revenge‚ each were equally as hard to forgive. Hester’s challenge was to forgive the townspeople. Reverend Dimmesdale needed to forgive Chillingworth. Chillingworth had to forgive Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl had to forgive Dimmesdale. Governor Bellingham had to forgive
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Character List Hester Prynne - Hester is the book’s protagonist and the wearer of the scarlet letter that gives the book its title. The letter‚ a patch of fabric in the shape of an “A‚” signifies that Hester is an “adulterer.” As a young woman‚ Hester married an elderly scholar‚ Chillingworth‚ who sent her ahead to America to live but never followed her. While waiting for him‚ she had an affair with a Puritan minister named Dimmesdale‚ after which she gave birth to Pearl. Hester is passionate but
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that Hester is forgiven but on the other hand dimmesdale and chillingworth are not. Based on my thoughts and opinion on Hester I feel that she is forgive and here sins still stick with her.I think that she has done her time and earns to take her letter if yet when given the choice she chooses to keep it on which is very good of her. Yes Hester did have a child at a young age which
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In The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ who is a former physician‚ is the evil figure throughout the classic novel. In Moby Dick‚ by Herman Melville‚ Captain Ahab‚ who is an experienced captain‚ portrays as the evil character also. Both figures from the novels represent an excellent example of evil-natured men who are out to get vengeance on someone or something for the wrongdoing to them. First‚ Chillingworth and Ahab are both trying to seek revenge
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While reading The Scarlet Letter book I had a little trouble with understanding the words and how it was used back in the days because they have different meanings to it now. The Scarlet letter brought out many morals to me along with the themes that I was given to explain. If I would have to make up a theme or moral of the story‚ is not to lie because the more you hold in the lie the deeper the guilt grows you it will make you into a different person‚ it will make you become something you don’t
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Diction of The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne presents the reader with the harsh‚ life changing conflicts of three Puritan characters during the 17th century. Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Robert Chillingworth must endure their different‚ yet surprisingly similar struggles as the novel progresses. Despite their similarities‚ Hawthorne shows these individuals deal with their conflicts differently‚ and in the end‚ only one prevails. Nathaniel
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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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