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- 211: The Scarlet Letter - Punishment and Death
- The Scarlet Letter - Punishment and Death Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter deals with many themes, among those including punishment and death. Utilizing the theme of punishment, the central character, Hester Prynne, was forced to wear an embroidered ... and as people of the community begin to forget the original significance of the letter it comes to bear a new meaning, able. In the thirteenth chapter of this book, Hawthorne comes out and in the third person states "the scarlet letter had not done its office." Hester has gone beyond the letter of the law and done everything asked of ... punishment to Hester then the letter "A" is. Pearl is the living symbol of her sin. All the evil and hate of this story is embodied in this little girl. Hawthorne raises the question of how Hester actually sees Pearl by referring to that "little, laughing image of a fiend" which appears to peep out of Pearl; "Whether it peeped ...
- 212: Hawthornes's Young Goodman Brown And Rappacini's Daughter: Solicited by the Devil
- ... that you could never be caught conjuring the devil, as is illustrated by the horrors of the infamous Salem witch trials. In Young Goodman Brown, and Rappacini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays two different ways of soliciting or being solicited by the devil. The final scenes in both of these stories although similar in nature, are actually conflicting in essence, and ... his deed and "he had taken a dreary road darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest" to get there(611). Goodman Brown is willingly seeking the devil, and Hawthorne is throwing in all the stereotypes. This entire search for the devil is portrayed as being very ugly. What then is pretty? In Young Goodman Brown beauty equals inherent goodness ... completely different. It portrays a man who had to endure great sorrow through no apparent flaw of his own. This, however, is not the case. Rather in this last confrontation Hawthorne is pointing out a reason for the demise of Giovanni, and at the same time rebuking the always nosy, and homiletic Puritans. Giovanni got in trouble for being too ...
- 213: She’s Worth More Than a Diamond
- ... held a great price to mankind, but no pearl had ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as in Hester Prynne, a powerful Heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. Her daughter Pearl, born into a Puritan prison in more ways than one, is an enigmatic character serving entirely as a vehicle for symbolism. From ... story she absorbs the hidden emotions of her mother and magnifies them for all to see. Pearl is the essence of literary symbolism. She is at times a vehicle for Hawthorne to express the inconsistent and translucent qualities of Hester and Dimmesdale’s unlawful bond at times, and at others a forceful reminder of her mother’s sin. Pearl Prynne is ... her only reason to live, but also serves as a priceless treasure purchased with her life. Pearl’s strange beauty and deeply enigmatic qualities make her the most powerful symbol Hawthorne has ever created. The product of Hester’s sin and agony, Pearl, was a painfully constant reminder of her mother’s violation of the Seventh Commandment: Thou shalt not ...
- 214: The Birthmark, The Minister’s Black Veil, and Young Goodman Brown: Symbolism
- The Birthmark, The Minister’s Black Veil, and Young Goodman Brown: Symbolism Symbolism is used throughout Hawthorne’s literary works. In the three short stories: The Birthmark, The Minister’s Black Veil, and Young Goodman Brown symbolism is used to show the thoughts of the Puritans in ... rid of it in the same way the Puritans sought to perfect themselves. She dies as a result of his obsession and her death symbolizes that purification cannot be achieved. Hawthorne’s writings go much deeper than meets the eye. There is a lot of symbolism, mostly having something to do with good and evil which was a big part of Puritan beliefs and their true thoughts. Today we read what Hawthorne wrote and in it we see not only a story, but also what lies in ourselves. In the three short stories symbolism shows that not everyone is what they ...
- 215: Hester Prynne: Learning and Changing
- ... demands that she learn and grow in some direction, for she is a woman strong enough to endure public shame and go on. It is not insignificant to note that Hawthorne considers the very fact of her learning and enduring at all, as opposed to succumbing and being defeated, under the weight of adverse circumstance, an evidence of her strength: "...when ... been her teachers..." (199) Thus, she was able to perceive beyond the confines of her society's rigid morality, not "deprived of passion and feeling" and perceiving only intellectually, as Hawthorne first suggests (164), but precisely because her years of solitude were preparation for her revelation to Dimmesdale of a better life outside of their Puritan village. Yet, however her broadminded ... ignominy she is forced to wear in symbol on her bosom, she remains bound to gray solitude in the small Puritan village. Henceforth, her daughter is able to venture out (Hawthorne speculates in the novel's conclusion) and enjoys a happy life, yet always "mindful of her mother" (262), who continues to her death to wear the scarlet letter and ...
- 216: The Scarlet Letter - Intoleran
- The Scarlet Letter By Sarah Johnston Nathaniel Hawthorne used his writing skills to appropriately show the strict intolerant ways of the disciplined Puritan America of 1850, with his novel The Scarlet Letter. This novel has become a classic, because of the accurate portrayal of the conservative Puritan ways. His novel is one of few to tell of the true Puritan lifestyle. Hawthorne explains the ways in which society cast out any individual for standing apart from the common crowd. The ways in which a person was punished by an entire community, only because their own ideas deviated from the common morals or values. And best of all, Hawthorne shows the way a "good Christian society" would lash out at anything they were afraid of. The first chapter of the novel introduces the main character Hester Prynne. She ...
- 217: Scarlet Letter- Judgment
- ... John 8:3-11). The story of this woman in the bible is very similar to the story of Hester Prynne from the renowned novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this novel, Hester commits adultery and bears the child of a man that is not her husband. The book is set in an early New England colony with Puritan ... man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom, to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals…" (Hawthorne, Nathaniel 82). One might ask, is the child really a punishment from God? It is clear that the child is from God, but would God consider this child a punishment ...
- 218: The Scarlet Letter - Individua
- Often in society people are criticized, punished and despised for their individual choices and flaws. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author attempts to show the way society casts out individuals simply because their ideas and deeds differ from the common values. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester Prynne to symbolize that those who challenge social conformities can benefit society as a whole. Though she has been banished for committing adultery, she sees that the community ...
- 219: Scarlet Letter 2 --
- The Minister's Anguish Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a compelling story which explores the inner emotions of the human mind, spirit, and the heart. Set around the 1640s in a Boston Puritan society ... society. Due to the constant struggles within himself, Dimmesdale is finally able admit his sin and die a peaceful death on the scaffold where the whole ordeal had began. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays Dimmesdale as a frail human being who is able to overcome a lot of agony with the strength of truth. The clergyman's life and death leaves us an ...
- 220: The Scarlet Letter: Hester Pryne Lived An Important Life
- The Scarlet Letter: Hester Pryne Lived An Important Life Author: Tim Gibson Hester Pryne, after being punished for her sin, lived an important life. In "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester was convicted of adultery. However, after her conviction, she managed to raise a daughter, became an important seamstress in her community, and set an example for her close-knit ... Reverend Dimmesdale. In Europe, Hester pretty much left Pearl alone. Pearl, then got married and started a new life. In the book, Pearl was always the smartest character portrayed by Hawthorne. Had Hester been put to death because of her sin, Pearl might not have been as successful as she became. Hester was a very admirable person. After committing her awful ...
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