Jordan Steen Mrs. Wunderl English 3 AP 18 November‚ 2013 Timed Writing: Analysis of Dimmesdale’s Rhetorical Effectiveness in The Scarlet Letter The strategies that Dimmesdale uses while juggling two rhetorical situations are his high standings in the community as a source of credibility and authority‚ his purpose as a minister to help convince the sinner to come forward and reveal the truth‚ and his ability to convey underlying messages to the reader. His effectiveness of communication
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Galileo Alkalay Ms. Dudley Period 5 December 10‚ 2012 Irony & The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthrone’s Scarlet Letter is praised as one of the most revolutionary and compelling literary works in modern American history. The narrator’s omniscient‚ descriptive lingustics enfore the story’s captivating plot as well as invokes insights on the moral fiber of each character. For some‚ the novel is an inspiration to readers in regard to the powerful protagonist‚ Hester Prynne‚ with her feminism
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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 it’s because she wasn’t really. I know
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Guilt If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it‚ did it make a sound? If a character does something wrong but no one knows that character can both gain and lose from what they have done. This happens multiple times in The Scarlet Letter. Characters commit evil deeds‚ some are caught‚ and some are not. For those that aren’t caught‚ they have a decision to make. To turn themselves in or to live their lives as if it never happened. For those that choose to live on as if it never
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The Scaffold: Revision In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne uses the recurring motif of the scaffolding in order to symbolize shame and public confession. Through various chapters Hawthorne uses the scaffolding to depict Hester’s shame‚ Dimmesdale’s struggle‚ and later his confession. In the beginning of the novel the scaffold served to symbolize Hester’s public humiliation. As her punishment Hester had to stand on the scaffold as her form of public humiliation. The symbolism
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Chapter 1 and 2: symbolism Intro: Symbolism is a major technique within Hawthorne’s novel. The symbols portrays sufficient information about the themes of society‚ sin and the individual which informs us about the effects of Puritan law. Society: In chapter 1 Puritan society is immediately depicted as harsh through the subtle symbolism of the prison door which was ’studded with iron spikes’. Also the ’bearded men’ in ’sad coloured garments’ illustrates a morbid aura. The mention of ’cemetery’
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The most unexpected individual to be shunned by society is a smiling‚ recognizable face of American television. Shunning has been an integral part of human society from its inception‚ when man first left behind individual lifestyles and banded together to create the precursors to modern civilization. All cultures‚ societies‚ and civilizations contain those that would seem unwanted‚ which ultimately results in the shunning of individuals. When a community shuns a citizen within it‚ it is because the
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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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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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Scarlet Letter Vocab Words | Definition | Romanticism (n) | Appeals to the imagination use of the “willing suspension of belief”. Romanticism stresses emotion rather than reason. | Puritan (n) | Religious reformers that emerged during 16th century. Puritan sought to cleanse the culture of what they regarded as corrupt‚ sinful practices. | Sepulchers (n) | A small room or monument cut in rock or built of stone‚ in which a dead person is laid or buried. | Inauspicious (adj.) | Not auspicious;
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