of the event that takes place in the story. The setting of the story is in Salem‚ Massachusetts during the Puritan era. During the Puritan era‚ adultery was taken as a very serious sin‚ and this is what Hester and Dimmesdale committ with each other. Because of the sin‚ their lives change‚ Hester has to walk around in public with a Scarlet Letter “A” which stands for adultery‚ and she is constantly being tortured and is thought of as less than a person. Dimmesdale walks around with his sin kept as
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shaming of a woman named Hester Prynne. It takes place in the 17th Century Boston‚ Massachusetts. The story begins with Hester being released from prison and walking down to town scaffold. She is wearing an “A” on her chest‚ which stands for adulterer. She is carrying her baby Daughter‚ Pearl‚ as she stands on the scaffold receiving insults. She is on the scaffold because she committed adultery with another man while she was married. Later‚ Hester’s long lost husband visits Hester in the prison. He has
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Analysis—Chapters 1–2 These chapters introduce the reader to Hester Prynne and begin to explore the theme of sin‚ along with its connection to knowledge and social order. The chapters’ use of symbols‚ as well as their depiction of the political reality of Hester Prynne’s world‚ testify to the contradictions inherent in Puritan society. This is a world that has already “fallen‚” that already knows sin: the colonists are quick to establish a prison and a cemetery in their “Utopia‚” for they know
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Chillingworth is inattentive and old. This very temperament of Chillingworth leads to the sadness present in Hester‚ provoking her decision to commit adultery. Chillingworth’s choice to marry such a young girl and then send her to Massachusetts by herself results in his first sin of the story. In seeking revenge upon Hester Prynne’s lover‚ Chillingworth changes his name from the previous “Roger Prynne” to “Roger Chillingworth” and also establishes himself as the town’s physician. Ironically‚ Chillingworth’s
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In The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the use of public shaming has an everlasting effect on a woman named Hester Prynne after she commits adultery within her Puritan society. She was sentenced to stand on a platform in front of her entire community‚ and she must wear the scarlet letter for the rest of her life. Public humiliation is the dishonoring showcase of a person for everyone in a community to see. To this day‚ some judges still use public humiliation to punish people for their
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else. Hawthorne has a perfect atmosphere for the symbols in The Scarlet Letter because the Puritans saw the world through allegory. The Puritan community sees Hester as a fallen woman‚ Dimmesdale as a saint‚ and would have seen the disguised Chillingworth as a victim — a husband betrayed. Instead‚ Hawthorne ultimately presents Hester as a woman who represents a sensitive human being with a heart and emotions; Dimmesdale as a minister who is not very saint-like in private but‚ instead‚ morally
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Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ follows the story of Hester Prynne and her dealings with a nasty love triangle and life with the sin of adultery. Hawthorne also outlines the consequences of keeping secrets and the effects it may have on the lives of oneself and others. In this novel‚ Hester keeps many destructive secrets that harm more than herself and some that she should have shared before it got too late. Hester most likely believed that her secrets harmed herself and spared others
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Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ contains alternating views of sin‚ morals‚ and guilt. Society classifies Hester Prynne a sinner for committing adultery while her husband was gone. Although the town does not punish her with death‚ for the slight possibility that her husband might be dead‚ their treatment of her is grave and cruel. As part of her punishment‚ the townspeople require Hester to stand on the public scaffold‚ where she is humiliated and embarrassed‚ wear a scarlet letter on her chest
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townspeople that he is not the man that they know and love. Instead‚ he is a sinner who has committed adultery with Hester Prynne. He does this so that he can die without the weight of guilt on his chest. After Dimmesdale says all that needs to be said to free him‚ he dies. This quote plays a very influential part in the story because it deals with the connection between Hester‚ Pearl and Dimmesdale. Right after Dimmesdale confronts the townspeople about his sin; he collapses and asked Pearl
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past from everyone in the community except Hester Prynne‚ his young wife whom had arrived years earlier than him in the New World. It has been described how‚ in the crowd that gathered before Hester‚ stood an old‚ tired‚ and crooked man‚ who‚ after being released by hostile Native Americans‚ finds his wife‚ holding an infant‚ shamefully standing on a scaffold. From the whispery gossip exchanged between the other spectators‚ Chillingworth learns that Hester is being condemned for committing adultery;
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