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A Plot Summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (1087 words, 2 pages)

Children are, by nature, incredibly sensitive creatures. They can sense almost any emotion an adult might feel just by observing a particular persons body language and facial expressions. Such is the case with the youthful Pearl from the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn. As the daughter of the ... Read More

A Passage from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (200 words, 1 pages)

The Scarlet Letter What have I done to end up in this dark and musty cage? My life is ruined for giving in to desires of passion and love. How could anyone force someone to live in this lifestyle? This scarlet letter A lets the entire town know what I ... Read More

The Portrayal of the Puritanical Society in The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible (1320 words, 2 pages)

When the topic of a Puritanical society is brought up, most people think of a strict and conservative society. While this may have usually been the case, this was not always so. The Puritan society was also known not to act out of brotherly love, but to cruelly lash out ... Read More

An Analysis of the Major Character in The Scarlet Letter (794 words, 2 pages)

The Scarlet Letter The major characters go through many changes due to all of the events that have taken place, but the torture they have to live and die with is all within themselves. Hester Prynn has always been strong, but being isolated from society and raising a child who ... Read More

An Analysis of Pearl, a Character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (718 words, 1 pages)

The Scarlet Letter-Pearl In The Scarlet Letter, a book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the character named Pearl symbolized a devil baby. I think Pearl is a huge symbol in this story. She is a constant reminder to Hester that she has sinned, as is the scarlet letter on her chest. ... Read More

The Issue of Acceptance in The Scarlet Letter, a Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1294 words, 2 pages)

If we cannot accept our own identity, how are we supposed to accept and eventually love others just like us? In the novel The Scarlet letter, Nathaniel Hawthorn addresses the issue of accepting ourselves before we can accept and love others. Hawthorn expresses this issue through the relationships between his ... Read More

The Themes of Sin and Guilt in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (811 words, 2 pages)

Unconfessed sin and guilt can fester in the body and soul. In the setting of Puritan society, the themes of sin and guilt present themselves in the novel The Scarlet Letter and in the short story The Ministers Black Veil. In these two literary works, Nathaniel Hawthorne and a few ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1571 words, 2 pages)

Have you ever did something wrong but felt that it was right? After thinking about the situation, did you feel like it was the worst sin you ever committed? Did you confess at the time you realized it was wrong or did you confess because you had no other choice? ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (640 words, 1 pages)

Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. "On the breast of her gown, in a fine red cloth ... Read More

An Analysis of Characters in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (15189 words, 25 pages)

The Scarlet Letter Ch1 Vocabulary -edifice (pg43) a usually large building -lot (pg43) plot of land -sepulchres (pg43) bury, entombed -inauspicious (pg44) not auspicious Character Analysis -Isaac Johnson one of the first settlers of Boston, buried on his own land which became his lot. -Ann Hutchinson prominent religious leader in ... Read More

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne as an Example or Romantic Literature (1362 words, 2 pages)

A reverend has sex with a married woman and denies the baby of his own for seven years. Sounds like a sitcom on FOX, but it is the plot of The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. If Hawthorne intended us to read this novel solely based on plot, he ... Read More

A Review of the Story of The Scarlet Letter (632 words, 1 pages)

It is often taught that the worst part of sin is not the sin itself but rather the effects of that sin on not only the sinner but also all the people around the sinner. That is why the important lesson in The Scarlet Letter is not about the sin ... Read More

An Analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1253 words, 2 pages)

A childs brutal honesty can be a gift or a blessing. Their naive ness to others perceptions and prejudice has their comments and actions cause them no embarrassment or harm, because as a child they hold certain innocence. Children have the tendency to talk trash about their surroundings and the ... Read More

A Book Review of The Scarlet Letter (1165 words, 2 pages)

The Scarlet Letter Book Review How does a man who lived his life in near-seclusion so sympathetically portray the life of a young woman shunned from society? What elements of his early life gave Nathaniel Hawthorne such insight into the complex mind of an ostracized woman in the 1600s? Born ... Read More

An Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (440 words, 1 pages)

A critic, Edward Wagenknecht explains that the scarlet letter upon Hester's breast in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter "had not done its office." This means that the actions of the magistrates punishing Hester for her sin is like usurping God's power, and the scarlet letter keeps Hester from living a ... Read More

An Analysis of National Morality in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1653 words, 3 pages)

NATIONAL MORALITY IN HAWTHORNES THE SCARLET LETTER Since the beginning of time, man has gathered himself in communities in order to better facilitate the needs and interests of individuals. As institutions developed to govern these communities, the idea of a collective good emerged. Central to the idea of a collective ... Read More

A Criticism of the Puritan Tradition in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1352 words, 2 pages)

In "The Scarlet letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne writes about sin, the nature of evil, an individual's identity in society and the human condition by weaving all of these conditions in to his characters and thereby creating the plot in his novel. In his novel Hawthorne uses the repressive, authoritarian puritan society ... Read More

An Analysis of Chapter 20 of the Novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (444 words, 1 pages)

In chapter 20 of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester and Dimmesdale plan to leave the colony on the fourth day en route for the Old World. Dimmesdale's decision to leave with Hester fills him with a sense of freedom from his place of torture, Boston. By creating false ... Read More

An Examination of the Scaffold Scenes in the Novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (752 words, 1 pages)

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is one of the most analyzed and most discussed literary works in American literature and for good reason. Hawthorne's ambiguity and his intense use of symbols have made this work incredibly complex and incredibly bothersome. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many symbols to ... Read More

An Analysis of Interdependencies in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawtnorne (2197 words, 4 pages)

Interdependence weaves together a society of individuals. Relationships with other people are important parts of human life, and interdependence is the group-wide dependence every person has for other people, and which groups of people have for that person. This dependence makes each of us part of a great designan intricately ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Hester Prynne in the Scarlet Letter (703 words, 1 pages)

Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the novel "The Scarlet Letter," which was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. This novel, taken place in a small Puritan town, tells of a young wedded woman who commits a scandalous crime and has to face her harsh consequences. Hester Prynne traveled to ... Read More

An Analysis of Evil in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1102 words, 2 pages)

Evil in the Scarlet Letter One belief that people live by is that evil is the nature of mankind, yet there are others that feel man has good intentions but those intentions can be overrun by the devil. Nathaniel Hawthorne points out that the former is true of all people ... Read More

An Analysis of The Scarlet Letter Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1713 words, 2 pages)

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a novel about the guilt of sin in a Puritanical society and how sometimes it is better to face your mistakes and admit them than to hide them and suffer inside. The result of sin can often produce something beautiful. Hester Prynne and Arthur ... Read More

The Significance of Reverend Dimmesdale in the Scarlet Letter (1456 words, 3 pages)

In the novel The Scarlet Letter there are many characters. Out of the four important characters in the novel Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale has the best story. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale has a very important role in the book, because if he was not in it there would be no book. Arthur ... Read More

A Plot Overview of The Scarlet Letter (678 words, 1 pages)

Most people believe that there exists at least one person in the world who matches their personality exactly. Others believe that for every person there is an exact opposite or an evil twin so to speak. In the case of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, they fall somewhere in between ... Read More

The Forbidden Love Affairs in the Novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (998 words, 2 pages)

Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem and Concord, late 1840s, The Scarlet Letter was a daring and even subversive book. It was published in 1850 in Massachusetts by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. The story tells of the forbidden love affairs, which happens between a sensitive, religious young priest, the Reverend ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (411 words, 1 pages)

Literary Analysis Paragraphs Scarlet Letter Symbolism In the Puritan society of Hester's day the Scarlet Letter represents a 'sinful' woman who cheated on her husband. Adultery was accepted then, just as much as cashing a check in the U.S. without I.D. while looking like Bin Laden today. Although every one ... Read More

The Internal Conflicts in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (607 words, 1 pages)

In the book, "Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne has an affair and bears a child. This shocked the Puritan community deeply and she was forced to live alone with her child, Pearl, in the forest. After seven long years, she is incorporating herself back into the community due ... Read More

Ernest Sandeen’s Interpretation of the Scarlet Letter (461 words, 1 pages)

This is Earnest Sandeen's interpretation of the Scarlet Letter not as a story about sins and sinners, but about the power of love. Sandeen describes the love shared between Hester and Arthur through the hard ship both individuals would gladly sacrifice for one another.And the fact tha you can see ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Hester Prynne From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (335 words, 1 pages)

In society you can be seen as either obligated to it or as an individual separate from it. Hester Prynne is an individual that is separate from it (Puritan society). It is often argued that Hester is a romantic, but with evidence provided by the novel it is apparent that ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013