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Hester Prynne and the Symbol of Sunlight in the Novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (451 words, 1 pages)

"The sportive sunlight--feebly sportive, at best, in the predominate pensivemess of the day and scene--withdrew itself as they cam nigh, and left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they has hoped to find them bright," (pg125-126). After noticing the sunlight running away from Hester, Pearl comments that ... Read More

A Comparison of Characters in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller (486 words, 1 pages)

Often in exceptional works of literature, identities, personalities, and surroundings can be quite similar or distinct with characters in other works. Two works of literature that display both aspects are The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. Abigail Williams and Hester Prynne are two women ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (659 words, 1 pages)

Hester Prynne is as ripe a protagonist as any for learning and changing throughout the course of a novel. She is a new mother and a publicly condemned and ostracized woman in a highly moral and tight knit Puritan community. Her very position in life, first child in hand and ... Read More

An Analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (995 words, 2 pages)

The Mysterious Forest In Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid Puritan society. In this society, people are not allowed to express their true thoughts and feelings. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how they truly feel otherwise the emotions become bottled up until ... Read More

An Analysis of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (259 words, 1 pages)

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the act of sin that was committed by Hester and Dimmesdale changed not only their lives, but Chilingsworths life as well. Chilingsworths need for revenge consumed him, and changed his personality completely. The need for revenge will not only destroy the person who ... Read More

An Analysis of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (528 words, 1 pages)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a two hundred and fifty-four page novel about Hester Prynne, Pearl, Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, and their conflicts. The book opens with a discussion about the prison door and a lonely rosebush whose significance will be mentioned later. It goes on to tell of ... Read More

An Analysis of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (857 words, 1 pages)

The Scarlet Letter (Pearl By Shannon E-mail Witeroseshotmail.com In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters suffer from the tolls of sin, but none as horribly as Hester's daughter Pearl. She alone suffers from sin that is not her own, but rather that of her mother. From ... Read More

An Analysis of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (867 words, 1 pages)

'The path strangled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest'(179). This sentence displays just one of the multiple personalities that the forest symbolizes in The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorn. As seen in the epic story Wizard of OZ, the forest represents a place of evil and delight, ... Read More

Both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Are Guilty Victims (557 words, 2 pages)

Innocent victims appear very often in literature. Anti-transcendentalist authors often make their protagonists victims of strictly enforced harsh rules or malice to prove their pessimistic point. An example of such is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", or Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor". In both stories, the protagonists are depicted as ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of Guilt in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (748 words, 2 pages)

What is guilt? We all have guilt about something. Maybe forgetting something, lied about something, or even did something that shouldn't of been done. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne we saw guilt fester in the minds and outward appearance of the main characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Allegory of a Man Pitted against His Past in Young Goodman Brown, a Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (334 words, 1 pages)

The story about Young Goodman Brown centers around the allegory of a man pitted against his past and his desires to reach beyond that which his benighted heaven would put before him. The allegory is Christian due to the references in Young Goodman Brown to the devil and Satan. The ... Read More

An Analysis of the Justice of Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (753 words, 1 pages)

Adulterous relationships always end in pain. Examples of such pain are present throughout the intricate web of time. From Shakespeares star-crossed lovers, to the media buffet of Bill Clinton, adultery leaves pain. Hester embodies this pain. Not in pity but in cause. She embodies pain. Pain of loss, suffering. The ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1207 words, 2 pages)

"There us a moment in the history of every nation when, proceeding out of this brute youth, the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic so that man, at this instant, extends across the entire scale." (Emerson 180) During the time in which Emerson stated this ... Read More

The Effects and Implications of Sin The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (791 words, 1 pages)

The Effects and Implications of Sin in The Scarlet Letter Published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter was the first American tragedy. It was written by one of America's greatest writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne. This story deals with problems of secret sin and the guilt of a tortured conscience. Hawthorne uses a ... Read More

An Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (556 words, 1 pages)

In puritan New England all sins were punished in different ways, some worse than others. In The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is an adulterer, Reverend Dimmesdale is another adulterer, and Roger Chilingworth is a man who cares only about punishing the man who slept with his ... Read More

The Dissection of Symbolisms in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (507 words, 2 pages)

The book The Scarlet Letter is all about symbolism. People and objects are symbolic of events and thoughts. Throughout the course of the book, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester, Pearl, and Arthur Dimmesdale to signify Puritanic and Romantic philosophies. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner ... Read More

The Portrayal of the Puritan Sin in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (577 words, 1 pages)

Unlike modern authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne is more concerned with what sin causes rather than what causes sin. In his stories, such as The Scarlet Letter, this is especially present. The focus of the plot is not how or why Hester chose to have an affair with Dimmesdale, but what happened ... Read More

The Portrayal of the Puritan Society in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1047 words, 2 pages)

The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter, written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about a Puritan society in Massachusetts. The theme of this novel is largely sin, and how the guilty parties were not equally treated for the same sin or exposed for the wrong that they had done in ... Read More

The Many Characters That Suffer from the Toll of Sin in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (594 words, 1 pages)

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are many characters that suffer from the tolls of sin but none as horribly as Hester's daughter, Pearl. She alone suffers from sin that is not her own, but rather that of her mother. She is always considered as an outcast because ... Read More

An Analysis of the Use of Punishment for Deception in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1266 words, 2 pages)

The ninth commandment tells man not to give false witness.(Exodus 2016) Nathaniel Hawthorn and Charles Dickens in their novels The Scarlet Letter and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, both use punishment for deception as a recurring theme. Although they do so to different degrees and in dissimilar manners, both ... Read More

The Major Part of Symbolism in the Novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (345 words, 1 pages)

What is symbolism? Even most children have a good concept of symbolism, although they are unaware of it. The concept of pretending is very close to symbolism. Symbolism is the representation of objects for other things or ideas. Use of symbolism can greatly affect the book overall. In The Scarlet ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Symbolism in The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne (310 words, 1 pages)

Symbolism in Hawthornes The Blithedale Romance In Hawthornes The Blithedale Romance, there are many uses of symbolism regarding the characters and the objects pertaining to them. The names of the characters Coversdale, Zenobia and Priscilla are a major part of this symbolism. The first character to represent symbolism is Coversdale. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Symbolism in the Novel, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1274 words, 2 pages)

Symbolism in Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne depicts a 17th century Puritan attempting to reach justification as Browns faith required. Upon completing his journey, however, Brown could not confront the terrors of evil in his heart and chose to reject all of society. Puritan justification was a topic Hawthorne was aware ... Read More

An Analysis of Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (337 words, 1 pages)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, well known for his attacks on outlandish Puritan ideology in "The Scarlet Letter", has always incorporated some aspect of his life and beliefs into his works. Once again, he has successfully conveyed a strong moral concept by utilizing various literary techniques to reveal a disturbing outlook into a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (518 words, 1 pages)

Utilized as the classic metaphor, light and dark represents good and evil. However, in his book, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's usage of light and dark as a metaphor is an aberration from the classic. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses sunlight and darkness in recurring events. He plays with his ... Read More

Public Penitence in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Novel, The Scarlet Letter (976 words, 2 pages)

The Scaffold Public penitence is no longer widely used as punishment in today's western society. However, back in Puritan society, it was in some ways considered worse than death. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the criminals of the law be it governmental or religious, were taken in sight of ... Read More

An Analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (938 words, 2 pages)

Soldan AP English .4 March 31, 2001 Unification In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the three scaffold scenes provide the novel with basic structure and perfect balance. The scaffold scenes unite the plot and the four main characters together. Also, each scene atop the scaffold symbolizes a ... Read More

Rejection to Acceptance in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (379 words, 1 pages)

Rejection to Acceptance In the Scarlet Letter the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, reveals the heroine, Hester Pryne, as a beautiful, courageous, and strong woman. Hester was despised by many people but soon earned the respect of the town. Hester was tall and elegant. She had a rich complexion and deep black ... Read More

An Analysis of the Symbols in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (307 words, 1 pages)

In the novel, "The Scarlet Letter", Nathanial Hawthorne uses many double-sided symbols. The scaffold is an important symbol, appearing in three key scenes. It epitomizes the three stages of the story, as the second appearance of the scaffold is one of the many climaxes in the story. Appearing in the ... Read More

An Analysis of Two Main Themes of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (1499 words, 3 pages)

There are two main themes that Hawthorne he uses in the novel both are related. Through his diction Hawthorne seems to emphasize the severity of Puritan law as a theme, the other is the strictness of Puritan society. In the opening chapter he carefully describes the prison as an ugly ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013