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- 201: Cosequences Of Shame And Guilt
- ... inevitable consequence of sin is the immediate reaction of guilt, shame, and remorse. In each of the two works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are characters who have committed a sin and feel guilty about it. For example: John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Dimmesdale have all committed a sin or sins and ... chance to speak out the truth, but he does not. Instead he speaks to Hester, "..I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow sufferer!"(Hawthorne 73). It is hypocritical of Arthur to tell Hester to speak out the truth when he knows the truth and he is the father of the child she bore. His ... lungs in the middle of the night for the whole town to hear. He shrieked, "It is done! The whole town will awake, and hurry forth, and fine me here" (Hawthorne 144). But it is not so. The town does not wake and he is left with the emptiness in his heart yet again. In the end, the Reverend finally ...
- 202: Birthmark
- Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a time of great change in America. In the mid-nineteenth century, Americans began to experience a shift in focus from the once stringent religious outlook to a more ... view of the world and its natural wonders. Americans, however, did look at these new scientific discoveries with much hesitation, questioning their long-term effects on society as a whole. Hawthorne’ s work, “The Birth Mark echoes these sentiments and combine natural faith with a confidence in science to make a very interesting tale. This tale and its morality convey a ... to consume his heart, resulting in the senseless death of his beautiful wife. Culture teaches men that if they learn enough that they can manipulate nature; however, in the Birthmark, Hawthorne shows that intelligence still can’t overcome nature and thus culture is self-destructive. The fact the whole story is about removing a physical flaw from Georgiana’s face ...
- 203: Young Goodman Brown
- "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "Young Goodman Brown", Goodman ... to that of Adam and Eve being led out of the Garden of Eden as is Goodman Brown being led out of his utopia by the Devil's snakelike staff. Hawthorne at this point remarks about "the instinct that guides mortal man to evil". This is a direct statement from the author that he believes that man's natural inclination is ... all on fire, besprinkled his cheek with the coldest dew." The dew on his cheek represents a tear that Brown is unable to produce because of his lack of emotion. Hawthorne shows that Brown has "no compassion for the weaknesses he sees in others, no remorse for his own sin, and no sorrow for his loss of faith." (Easterly 339) ...
- 204: Scarlet Letter: Reality Vs Per
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption, centers around the small Puritan community of Boston during the seventeenth century. In the middle of the town market ... and hypocrisy of the townspeople. The experiences of the people on the scaffold and in the forest lend themselves to a higher issue, reality vs. perception. In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne shows how people create their own reality with what they see. The Scaffold is not only a high view point the in market place but a site where one can ... on the scaffold, the townspeople deny " . . . his dying words acknowledged, nor even remotely implied . . . the slightest connection, on his part, with the guilt for which Hester Prynne [had committed] . . . (241)". Hawthorne's point is clear: there are those who embrace the truth, and those who avoid it at all costs.
- 205: Cosequences Of Shame And Guilt
- ... inevitable consequence of sin is the immediate reaction of guilt, shame, and remorse. In each of the two works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are characters who have committed a sin and feel guilty about it. For example: John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Dimmesdale have all committed a sin or sins and ... chance to speak out the truth, but he does not. Instead he speaks to Hester, "..I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow sufferer!"(Hawthorne 73). It is hypocritical of Arthur to tell Hester to speak out the truth when he knows the truth and he is the father of the child she bore. His ... lungs in the middle of the night for the whole town to hear. He shrieked, "It is done! The whole town will awake, and hurry forth, and fine me here" (Hawthorne 144). But it is not so. The town does not wake and he is left with the emptiness in his heart yet again. In the end, the Reverend finally ...
- 206: The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol of the Scarlet Letter
- The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol of the Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne's scarlet token liberates her more than it punishes her. First of all, Hester's soul is freed by her admission of her crime ... for its vivid hue sets it apart from the monochromatic garb of the other Puritans. It eclipses everything else, so that Hester is the central figure in the picture that Hawthorne paints in the readers mind; the rest are merely part of the grim background, serving only to enhance the exquisite beauty of Hawthorne's female protagonist. Also, "[New England] had been the scene of her guilt, and [it] should be the scene of her earthly punishment." Thus Hester finds her roots in ...
- 207: The Scarlet Letter: Platform Of Sin
- ... Sin Author: Matt Nelson “This scaffold constituted a portion of a penal machine . . . . The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron” (Hawthorne 62-63). A scaffold's effect on the novel can be seen through an examination of the first, second, and third scaffold scenes. These sections mark the beginning, middle, and end of the novel. The novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is constructed around a scaffold, which provides the story with a constant reminder of sin. The first scaffold scene sets the stage for the novel; it establishes who the main ... s sin first appears in the novel. The “Goodwives” of the congregation discuss Hester's crime of adultery: “This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die” (Hawthorne 59). The scaffold allows Hester Prynne's sin to be publicized and marveled at by the New Englanders. It is here that the reader becomes aware of Hester being ...
- 208: The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol of the Scarlet Letter
- The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol of the Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne's scarlet token liberates her more than it punishes her. First of all, Hester's soul is freed by her admission of her crime ... for its vivid hue sets it apart from the monochromatic garb of the other Puritans. It eclipses everything else, so that Hester is the central figure in the picture that Hawthorne paints in the readers mind; the rest are merely part of the grim background, serving only to enhance the exquisite beauty of Hawthorne's female protagonist. Also, "[New England] had been the scene of her guilt, and [it] should be the scene of her earthly punishment." Thus Hester finds her roots in ...
- 209: Hester Prynne
- Hester Prynne The character of Hester Prynne changed significantly throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner; she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. However, the Romantic philosophies of Hawthorne put down the Puritanic beliefs. She is a beautiful, young woman who has sinned, but is forgiven. Hawthorne portrays Hester as "divine maternity" and she can do no wrong. Not only Hester, but the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author' ...
- 210: The Scarlet Letter: Secrets. We Have Them, We Hide Them, but Can We Live With Them?
- ... the use of deception to promote oneself to a higher level, or to hide one's past, has been a common occurrence. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne , Chillingworth and Dimmesdale both use deception to hide secrets from each other, and from the rest of the town. Hester Prynne is the only one who knows the secrets that ... by his own hand, was it placed there by God , or was it just in his imagination? We will never know the answer to this question, but I think that Hawthorne meant it to be an imaginary "A". Doctor Chilling worth, knowing that he has been betrayed, dedicates seven years to identifying his wife's lover. The reader first learns of ... heart." Whenever the author talks about the "A" or about Hester, not referring to Dimmesdale, he uses the words " bosom" or "chest". In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Doctor Roger Chillingworth hide secrets from the other characters. Hester Prynne is the only character who knows about these secrets. Dimmesdale and Chilling worth are ...
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