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- 171: Scarlet Letter Essay
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is considered the best of his writings. It may also be the most strongest statement of his recurrent themes, an excellent example of his craftsmanship. Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter during emancipation of women liberation. Therefore, many of his thoughts and ideas about what was happening around him was very influential in his literature. The main thematic emphasis in The Scarlet Letter is on sin and its effects upon both the individual and society. It is frequently noted that Hawthorne's preoccupation with sin originates from the Puritan-rooted culture in which he lived, and from his awareness of two of his own ancestors who had presided over bloody ...
- 172: Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark: The Benefit of Dreams
- Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark: The Benefit of Dreams Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark, both stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, use dreams to uncover the central characters and put influence on the story. In each story, the dreams manifested are extremely helpful to the development of the story. These dreams ... events in his life actually occurred, or if they simply were created in his neurotic mind as he slept. Dreams, therefore, play an important developmental role in the explanation of Hawthorne's characters. In The Birthmark, Aylmer has a dream in which he commits an act of horrendous cruelty to his wife, Georgiana. This dream delves into Aylmer's personality, as ... in his wishes for his wife to have her birthmark removed. He is just unable to control himself, much like children do. As a result of this new view of Hawthorne's character, we are now aware that Aylmer will not be held back by anything in his pursuit for what he believes to be perfection. Young Goodman Brown's ...
- 173: The Scarlet Letter - Puritan Society
- The Scarlet Letter - Puritan Society In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his or her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs ... society did not permit this kind of expression, thus characters had to seek alternate means to relieve their personal anguishes and desires. Luckily, at least for the four main characters, Hawthorne provides such a sanctuary in the form of the mysterious forest. Hawthorne uses the forest to provide a kind of "shelter" for members of society in need of a refuge from daily Puritan life. In the deep, dark portions of the ...
- 174: The Scarlet Letter: The Morality Issue
- The Scarlet Letter: The Morality Issue Through Hawthorne, the book The Scarlet Letter is written about love, sin, and most of all morals. Hawthorne creates many different perspectives on characters and their views. His vivid descriptions of the main trio of characters allow the reader to make there own decisions on who is morally ... temptress, or maybe Dimmesdale is in the wrong for falling for the temptress. Chillingworth, who is at first thought to be the victim, but in the end the villain? Through Hawthorne’s writing we the reader must decide on the morality issue among Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Hester, who is essentially the main character in The Scarlet Letter, therefore, is ...
- 175: Young Goodman Brown 7
- Young Goodman Brown Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne contains much symbolism. The symbols take many forms from the setting to the characters. The symbols can be viewed as just part of the story line, but apon further thought ... the townspeople were barred from going into the forest because that is where evil lurked and even says my father never went into the woods nor his father before him. Hawthorne described the forrest as a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest and even jokes of the evil lurking there when he says there may be a devilish Indian behind every tree and What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow! Hawthorne even uses the main character as a symbol. His name, Young Goodman Brown makes reference to him as being young and a good person. Then Hawthorne gives him such ...
- 176: The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What a Change!
- ... the central legacies of American Puritanism, using the plight of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to illustrate the conflict between the desire to confess and the necessity of self-concealment. Hawthorne grew up with his two sisters and their widowed mother, and an uncle saw to his education at Bowdoin College. In 1852, Hawthorne wrote the campaign biography of Franklin Pierce, an old college friend. The best of Hawthorn's early fiction was gathered in Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, and The Snow-Image. These capture the complexity's of the New England Puritan heritage. Hawthorne's writing had a wide range of influence upon people, such as Melville who dedicated the great classic Moby-Dick to him. One of Hawthorne's most famous novels ...
- 177: Herman Melville Defined
- ... Melville joined another whaling ship and went to England. When he returned home he completed his most famous piece, Moby Dick. He dedicated this novel to his closest friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne praised his work, this was very important to Melville. “Your appreciation is my glorious gratuity…A sense of unspeakable security is in me at this moment, on account of having ... finished, Melville slipped into a state of depression over the failure of the novel. It was unable to provide income for his family. “Dollars damn me” (20) he wrote to Hawthorne. Melville grew increasingly despondent and withdrawn, creating his wife to have him examined for insanity. Elizabeth was so miserable that even her minister suggested “she leave her husband” (22). ...
- 178: Scarlet Letter (character Deve
- ... become real to the reader. A well-developed character stirs up emotions in the reader making for a powerful story. A person can change for better or worse and Nathaniel Hawthorne shows this thru the character development of Hester, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter. We can see how Hester begins changing even from the beginning of The Scarlet Letter ... Chillingworth s lust for revenge turn him to an evil person and eventually destroys him in the end. Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth are all well developed in The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne showing strengths and weaknesses of the characters draws you closer to Hester, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, and makes you love or hate them. Hawthorne makes Hester, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth become real to the reader through their development giving you a better sense of his characters. Making the characters of a novel real to ...
- 179: Herman Melville
- Herman Melville In 1850 while writing The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne's publisher introduced him to another writer who was in the midst of a novel. This was Herman Melville, the book Moby Dick. Hawthorne and Melville became good friends at once, for despite their dissimilar backgrounds, they had a great deal in common. Melville was a New Yorker, born in 1819, one of eight ... romantic age. As he wrote Melville became conscious of deeper powers. In 1849 he began a systematic study of Shakespeare, pondering the bard's intuitive grasp of human nature. Like Hawthorne, Melville could not accept the prevailing optimism of his generation. Unlike his friend, he admired Emerson, seconding the Emersonian demand that Americans reject European ties and develop their own ...
- 180: The Scarlet Letter Theme Symbo
- Nathaniel Hawthorne chose the market place and the forest as settings used to symbolically develop his portrait of society and the characters in The Scarlet Letter. In this novel a story unfolds ... so many meanings throughout the book? The answer is that each time there was an event occurring at the scaffold, each of the main characters was present. The place that Hawthorne chose to unite the characters and hoard symbolic meaning was the scaffold. In the second chapter, entitled The Market-Place, the reader is first introduced to Hester Prynne as she ... her child, Pearl, in her arms. A careful survey of this scene reveals her minister Dimmesdale above the scaffold and her husband, Chillingworth, in the crowd. From the very beginning, Hawthorne has brought these characters together in the ominous presence of the scaffold. In chapter seven, entitled The Minister s Vigil, we find Dimmesdale standing atop the scaffold with his ...
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