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Laura. "Romanticism in The Scarlet Letter." Prezi.com. N.p., 22 May 2014. Web. Kenyon Laura states that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a romantic piece of American literature as opposed to a realistic piece of literature based on examination of such traits as setting, language, clear identification of heroes and villains and the presence of a didactic purpose. Kanyon summed up the main points in the Scarlet Letter in the PowerPoint. The Scarlet Letter was based on a Puritan village…

The Scarlet Letter focuses heavily on the romantic movement and what conflicted it at that time. Hawthorn uses these characters as outlets for showing the romantic movement and how it was put into action while also being ridiculed. Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter to communicate how following the beliefs of the Romantic movement helps lead people to achieving their best moral life; their passion is the most natural feeling, how society ridicules the people who: believe in the romantic movement…

Hawthorne’s historical fiction novel,The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is not repressed but is rather freed by wearing the scarlet letter. She becomes a critical thinker who transcends societal norms. Hester starts out as being a passionate and somewhat naïve woman. When the scarlet letter adorns her bosom, she questions society and becomes wiser. Hester starts to become aware of injustice and hypocrisy in the Puritan community. She changes the meaning of the letter in the eyes of the…

Course Date Analyze and Interpretation: The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis In The Screwtape Letter, Lewis writes a satirical and epistolary text that explores the Christian theological concepts of temptation and the capability of human nature to resist satisfying greed and personal benefit. Lewis uses fictional characters such as Screwtape, a senior demon who writes a series of letters to Wormwood, his nephew and a junior tempter. These letters are instructions which pertain to Wormwood’s…

The forest in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathanial Hawthorn is a recurring metaphor in the novel. Gossip and shame encircled the forest, causing a skewed view of this isolated location within the Puritan community. However, Hawthorne dubs the forest as a place of freedom, joy, and truth to those with secrets. Boston’s Puritan society of the mid 1600’s feared the near-by forest. Believing that “the black man that haunts the forest” (Hawthorn 71). The forest symbolized many things about…

A character within a novel can either change positively or negatively. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, author Nathaniel Hawthorne makes use of character development technique to show how each individual changes as the novel progresses. Through the description of a character from the beginning and their development at the end of the novel, the character becomes real. This is apparent in the transgression of Hester Prynne and Pearl in the short novel. Although Pearl is portrayed to have been…

The Scarlet Letter is an intriguing book that shows you how one event in your life can make you look like a plague or unappealing. It also shows how hypocritical people can be. Throughout most of the book the people sin, but they assume it’s alright since Hester’s is worse. This helps develop the story, symbols, and theme that is displayed throughout the book. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter using a descriptive, narrative style. Hawthorne chose this style to intricately explain a…

Owning up to the truth is a difficult task that most people struggle to do. It is often easier for humans to hide their wrongdoings from their peers, rather than being truthful. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, both main characters, Dimmesdale and Hester commit an act that is regarded by their peers, the Puritans, as a sin. The Puritans were a Protestant religious group that sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in order to practice their religion in peace. They had strict moral and…

In the novel T he Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne symbolism is used differently between the Puritans in the novel and the narrator of the novel. Despite both using the same symbols, the way they view these symbols differs substantially. Some symbols that are used differently are the scarlet letter, sunshine, and Pearl. The use of symbols between the Puritans and the narrator, the Puritans look at these symbols in a negative way, bringing the people who encounter these symbols “doom and…

What single sin could one woman have possibly committed to have the sun not shine on her? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was written during the 1840’s in Salem and Concord, Massachusetts. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the main characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. The main character was Hester Prynne she had committed adultery which at the time was the worst thing anyone could do. Which…