either benefitted or harmed us. Case in point‚ medicine saves human lives. In contrast‚ chemical warfare harms human lives. In the “Scarlett Letter”‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ a world renowned scholar‚ chooses the path of evil. Chillingworth ends up turning into a “fiend” because of his desire to extract revenge on Dimmesdale for having an affair with his wife. The Scarlett Letter and society today correlates to one another by intellectual arrogance and technological advances endowing the human race to do
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The Scarlet Letter is about a woman‚ Hester Prynne‚ who commits adultery. She is forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her chest while the identity of her partner is kept a secret. Her husband‚ who has been gone‚ arrives and asks that his identity be kept a secret so he doesn’t have to deal with the consequences of Hester’s sin. He swears that he will find out who her partner is. Meanwhile her partner‚ Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale‚ is feeling the consequences of his actions. His guilt is eating
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effort and struggle.” -Napoleon Hill. Hester Prynne showed strength and growth during her time of struggle. Though she had committed a crime that was disdain in her town’s eyes and wore a letter that exposed her shame‚ she portrayed a soft‚ gentle attitude . Hester’s loving‚ yet serious attitude towards Pearl demonstrated her caring trait‚ and her forgiving nature was admirable. For these reasons‚ Hester is my favorite character. Throughout the book‚ Hester Prynne had a gentle attitude. When she
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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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Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his great‚ philosophical novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ not only in the literal sense‚ but also symbolically to instill his strong ideas into the minds of his readers. Hawthorne uses artifacts like the rose bush‚ prison door‚ Pearl‚ and the scarlet letter to invoke and awaken the reader towards his meaning through symbolism. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the main character‚ Hester Prynne‚ develops before us as a strong willed woman who learns to adapt
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In the novel‚ The Scarlett Letter‚ the character that is the most striking morally ambiguous character is Reverend Dimmesdale. He can be identified as neither good nor evil because of many reasons‚ including his monumental secret of being an adulterist‚ his random acts of saying sweet nothings to the people of the church‚ his sermons secretly related to his life spreading a powerful message‚ and ultimately his confession of committing adultery with Hester. The significance of his moral ambiguity
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and life everlasting‚” stated Jerry Ryan. Hester Prynne is the primary character of The Scarlet Letter and a young maiden who had a husband that disappeared two years prior when Hester had an affair with someone else. Roger Chillingworth is the husband of Hester Prynne‚ and he is looking for revenge because of Hester’s betrayal. Hawthorne shows that not everyone is a perfect person when it comes to his or her feelings and emotions. Since Hester Prynne is the heroine of the story and refuses to state
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Compare and Contrast of Hester Prynne and Abigail Williams Abigail Williams and Hester Prynne were two very different characters in books about the same Puritan religion. The two had many differences and even a few ways they were alike. Their views on society and their reaction on how they reacted to the way they were treated by the Puritans. Hester feared society and thought that it was something to be avoided‚ while Abigail long to be the center of attention. While Hester attracted further
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Scarlet Letter includes immense amounts of symbolism in all of his work. The Scarlet Letter is considered to be his “masterwork” which includes romance‚ suspense‚ sorrow‚ and anything else you can imagine. The novel takes place in the time of the Puritans and shows many aspects of their lives. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter shows the ways of the Puritans and their beliefs through symbolism numerous times throughout the novel. In his novel‚ Hawthorne displays how one letter could drastically
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"On a field‚ sable‚ the letter A‚ gules‚” is the closing sentence of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ a fictional story centered around real histories from Puritan New England. Hester Prynne‚ the main character of the story‚ conceives a child through an affair with an unknown man. She is publicly shamed for her act of adultery but refuses to reveal the name of her lover‚ despite the humiliation she must endure alone. Everyone wanted to see the fallen woman as the beadle‚ an officer of the
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