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- 221: The Awakening and The Scarlet Letter: Struggles of the Heroines
- ... the Heroines "You are the product of your environment." This statement is thought to be correct by a large number of people. In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the heroine in each novel realizes the identity which society wishes to project upon them. This realization brings about a want for change and growth in ... with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes" (Hawthorne 45). This sets the tone of Puritan society, and shows its tendency to be overbearing and repressing. The Puritan style of preaching is also known for its "fire and brimstone ...
- 222: American Transcendentalism
- ... subsequent essays, journals, and poems are credited with giving further shape to its ideals. Emerson was also an important inspiration to such authors as Walt Whitman, who, along with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe, were strongly influenced by Transcendentalism (Mullen and Wilson 1). Perhaps the best known and most influential of Emerson's immediate disciples is ... labor reform. The Transcendentalism movement is acknowledged as having infused American literature with its own distinctive character. The authors of what has been called the Renaissance period, including Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne, and Dickinson, were immensely influenced by American Transcendentalism in style, theme, and thought. They were not the creators they believed themselves, but they were unconscious prophets of a true state ...
- 223: Great Gatsby & Scarlet Letter
- Jason Bello AP English March 22, 2000 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are two novels, which address similar themes with completely opposite resolves. The authors use their main characters, Hester, Dimmesdale, Gatsby, and Daisy ... life, one which involves returning to an unfaithful husband who will indubitable stray again. Although the novels have different interpretations of the same themes, a similar conclusion is reached. Both Hawthorne and Fitzgerald present worlds in which their main characters must deal with unfaithfulness. A common theme is reached in that adultery can prove to make people stronger when it is ...
- 224: What Makes Up A Work Of Literature
- ... Makes Up A Work Of Literature A work of literature may be defined as a classic because it promotes deep insight into human behavior. Both The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey give a reader a complete understanding of what is going on inside of the heads of the characters. This ... of literature shows deep insight into human behavior, as do The Scarlet Letter and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, then that work can be considered a classic, as Hawthorne's and Kesey's are. The major insight in common is that bot h authors realized that mental and physical conditions are interrelated and depend upon each other. Also, Kesey ...
- 225: Scarlet Letter 2
- ... 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 or ...
- 226: A View Of Young Goodman Brown
- ... he does not think he can face. He reiterates his false confidence to himself repeatedly. This characteristic of Goodman Brown is similar to the life lead by the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of self-doubt. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an unhappy person his entire life, never satisfied with his accomplishments. Goodman knowns what he must do but dreads the deed. Apon entering the forest he is suspicious of ...
- 227: Sins In The Scarlet Letter
- ... until the end of time. From the beginning, Chillingworth showed no signs of guilt and let his life be consumed by sin. Roger Chillingworth committed the greatest sin in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter because he let himself be ruled by hatred and the consuming desire for vengeance. This becomes visible through examination of the other sins present in the ... comparisons between the sins of Hester Prynne, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth in mind, the reader can easily establish that Roger Chillingworth committed the greatest sin in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. He did this by being ruled by hatred and the feeling of vengeance.
- 228: Secrets In Scarlet Letter
- ... One of the main themes in The Scarlet Letter is that of the secret. The plot of the book is centered around Hester Prynne s secret sin of adultery. Nathaniel Hawthorne draws striking parallelism between secrets held and the physical and mental states of those who hold them. The Scarlet Letter demonstrates that a secret or feeling kept within slowly engulfs ... s shirt while he is sleeping, he finds an A scourged on his chest, similar to the one worn on Hester s bosom in penance for her crime of adultery. Hawthorne portrays him closely to Satan as he stares at the wound in great joy. Had a man seen old Roger Chillingsworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have ...
- 229: The Scarlet Letter: Arthur - Tragic Hero or Merely Tragic?
- The Scarlet Letter: Arthur - Tragic Hero or Merely Tragic? In Nathaniel Hawthorne's torrid tale of The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale, a main character, is confronted with a number of circumstances, both in and out of his control, that lead to his ... lives as a sinner, allowing Hester to be the strong and moral one for them both. Even in death, she is the supporting one, he the weak one. Even as Hawthorne describes him, Arthur is childlike and ill-suited to his environment: "Notwithstanding his high gifts and scholar-like attainments, there was an air about this young minister,--an apprehensive, a ...
- 230: Symbolism In The Scarlet Latte
- Symbolism in "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter includes many profound and important symbols. This device of symbolism is portrayed well in the novel, especially through the scarlet letter "A". The "A" is the ... brook another woe to carry onward . . ." (p. 185). The brook does not carry off Hester's letter, and therefore the disgrace of her sin is still kept close by. When Hawthorne says that Hester's new thoughts "have taught her much amiss" (p. 183), he also gives Hester one last chance to reaccept the sin that she has committed and the ...
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