SYMBOL1.Scarlet Letter "A"A = Adultery (sin)The meaning changes through the times. Adultery---Able~ Able to face the society with dignity~ Able to accept her punishment alone without any support and friends~ Able to be a mother for Pearl2.Rosebush (Chapter 1: The Prison Door‚ p. 40-41)Hester = rebel‚ young soul‚ conservative‚ endured. 3.Prison Door (Chapter 1: The Prison Door‚ p. 40-41)Puritan Community = strict‚ old generation‚ conventional. 4.Scaffold (Chapter 2)Moral Discipline = Puritan stiffness
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Chapter 6: “Pearl” 1. Hawthorne uses the quote‚ “Man had marked this woman’s sin by a scarlet letter‚ which has such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her‚ save it were sinful like herself. God‚ as a direct consequence of sin which man thus punished‚ had given her a lovely child‚ whose place was on that same dishonored bosom‚ to connect her parent forever with the peace and descent of mortals‚ and to be finally a blessed soul in heaven.” (86)‚ to contrast how man views
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Nathaniel Hawthorne in his insightful novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ illustrates the social issues that were prevalent in the Puritan society. While it is acknowledged that horrific events were occurring during that time‚ we often fail to consider the effects these events have on the recipients of the judgement of their society. These recipients that encounter this shame and judgment often repress their feelings deep within themselves. To delve into the impact the acts of repression have on individual
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Volume 5‚ No. 2-3 32 Pearl in Hawthorne’s Romance The Scarlet Letter Dan QIN Ph.D. candidate‚ School of Foreign Languages in Hunan Normal University Email: qindan728@gmail.com Abstract: In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne portrays one of the most enigmatic child figures in American literature. Although she is an illegitimate daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Pearl plays an important role more as a dynamic force of moral guardian than a static symbol of sin in the plot. The purpose
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The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a book of love‚ lust‚ passion‚ and punishment. The main character Hester Prynne is right in the middle of all of these things‚ along with being in the middle of a rocky relationship with her husband. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne shows the reader the consequences of being part of an unfair relationship. It is the society’s comfort zone‚ having males dominate. Males have always been thought to be stronger‚ braver‚ and
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Nathaniel Hawthorne has received the title of “American genius” because of his literary works such as “The Scarlet Letter” and “Young Goodman Brown.” Many critics agree that Nathaniel Hawthorne is a writer of “Dark Romanticism‚” which led him to be famous because he ventured away from transcendentalism. There are many reasons as to why Hawthorne stands out from his fellow colleagues who were part of his movement from the transcendentalist to dark romantic. One of the reasons being that Hawthorne
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Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne used a lot of symbolism in The Scarlet Letter. Symbolism is the use of objects or people to represent ideas or qualities. Three of the pieces of symbolism the Hawthorne used in this novel was the sunshine and light to represent truth‚ Mistress Hibbins to represent temptation‚ and the brook to represent sorrow. Throughout the novel‚ these symbols reappear over and over‚ which creates emphasis on the characters and the conflict of the storyline.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ born Nathaniel Hathorne‚ was an extraordinary American author. He was born on July Fourth‚ 1804‚ in Salem Massachusetts. Salem had a lot of influence on his writing because of his ancestors involvement in the Salem witch trials. His guilt from his ancestors involvement in the trials caused him to be a partial transcendentalist. Also‚his introduction in the Scarlet Letter‚ the Custom house‚ openly talks about his problems about the city of Salem to a point where it upset some
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The Scarlet Letter‚ Critical Essay Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel‚ The Scarlet Letter was the greatest writing of American Literature of his time and even to this day. His beliefs in this book are based on the ideas of the Romantics. The story of Hester Prynne and her journey‚ talks about her going against the nature of society and clearly stating that emotion is superior to reason. It is apparent in the novel Hawthorne believed emotion was superior to law‚ and humans are intrinsically good. The
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The style of The Scarlet Letter is clean‚ precise‚ and effective. In the novel Hawthorne utilizes all his writing skills. In doing this he includes a heroine. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is a victim and a heroine that is admired because of her strong will‚ and disregard for other’s views of her. She comes from an impoverished but genteel English family‚ having lived in a "decayed house of gray stone‚ with a poverty-stricken aspect‚ but retaining a half-obliterated
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