The Scarlet Letter

personalities and actions, but also pushes the misperceptions held by their society towards these two characters. This contrast further proves that people are often misjudged by appearance or a singular action/first impression. Through the symbol of the Scarlet Letter, Hester is shown as a confident and powerful character who stands out, but through the eyes of her society she is seen as sinful and disrespectful character who is easy to pity and judge. Hester’s A is described as…

In Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter’, nature is presented as a sympathetic and forgiving force that is in direct contrast with the stringent Puritanical society and authoritative figures which are representative of civilisation in the novel. Some characters in the novel align themselves with nature, such as Hester and Pearl, whilst the majority of the townspeople vehemently avoid places such as the forest and seem to even live in fear of it. The former characters – Hester especially – are more…

Antagonist in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a young woman named Hester Prynne. She is marked with an irrevocable sin that shuns her from society. Throughout the story we see Hester Prynne’s isolation from society, how she’s being treated by the Ppuritan town, how she is dealing with the treatment and how her sin is affecting the rest of the characters in the story. The Puritan society was judgemental and affected the lives of the…

Avni Trasi 26 January 2017 Glynn English 11H The Significance of the Scaffold In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the scaffold serves as an integral part of the story. Every significant scene in the book occurs on the scaffold. It helps express the most important themes of the story. Throughout the book Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl all go through transformations and the scaffold appears periodically, acting as a constant. In Puritan society, a scaffold is used as a…

What does the letter A mean? According to Nathanial Hawthorne, in the book The Scarlet Letter, the letter A in seventeenth century Boston is symbolized in many different ways. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbol of light and dark to depict good and evil among the characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. When first starting out, negativity grew in Hester’s life due to the poor choices she made and she had to learn how to let the sunshine back in. “Much of…

controlled, super “pure” type of Christianity that was present in some colonies during the earliest days of American society. Nathaniel Hawthorne focused on colonial Boston back in its Puritan Era to tell a fictional story of failed love in The Scarlet letter. Hester Prynne faced many obstacles as the protagonist. Her struggles were social and internal, with the guilt of unforgivable sin constantly weighing down on her well-being. However, the true antagonist of this story was Roger…

Hester no longer has to live the burden of wearing the scarlet letter. She no longer has to live with the weight of her shame and punishment, she is free now. Without the letter she now becomes even more beautiful and she no longer has rough features. Dimmesdale is afraid that Pearl won’t accept him as her father since he’s never been there for her and he left them on the scaffold when she asked him to join her but he declined. Due to her mother’s unwanted presence in the Puritan…

The Perception of Sins and the Theme of Morality in The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter, the perception of sin deviates from person to person. The deviation occurs on the severity of the sin that was committed and who committed the sin. Focusing on Hester and Dimmesdale, it is easy to compare the consequences of coping with the perception of their sins, on a private and a public level. The outcome of dealing with their sin is extremely different. The theme of morality affects Hester and…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was written in the mid-1800s, a time when the women’s rights movement was just beginning. Women who took part in this movement longed to be viewed as equal to men in the eyes of society, rather than as the subordinate gender, incapable of the successes of men. Some argue that The Scarlet Letter is a proto-feminist novel, a novel that characterizes women as equal to men, because of Hawthorne’s depiction of Hester Prynne, the novel’s protagonist, as a…

exceeded onto Pearl as the story continues, even though Pearl seems to be greater intellectually gifted than her mom. This complete quote is describing the scarlet letter on her chest and the way it has taken the whole thing away from her. this example of characterization describes Hester’s withering character thoroughly, and it’s all due to the scarlet ‘A’. Ever for the reason that sin had been made public, one predominant topic of Jealousy has grow to be eminent to me. Even though Hester and…