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Scarlet Pimpernel Playing Cards
1,094 wordsIn Chapter One, the aristocrats, traitors to France, were trying to get through the Barricades so they would no longer have to be slaves of the king. Many, though, would get caught, go to trial, and be sent to the guillotine. In order to aid this awful fate, they would try to disguise themselves to get through. Men dressed as women, children as beggars, etc. Sergeant Bibot, who protected the West Gate Barricade, would catch almost everyone. At one point, though, so many people had escaped that t...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Sin Of Adultery
1,035 wordsIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, is the human symbol of the sin of adultery in the fact that she leads her mother, Hester Prynne, and Arthur Dimmesdale to accept and admit to their sin. Pearl is the beautiful daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. She is the living symbol of the scarlet letter and has unique traits that make her sometimes appear as a demon. Her love for nature and freedom, her spirit, her wildness, her loneliness and separation from the world, her curiosity, and ...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,339 wordsSin is defined in Websters New World Dictionary as, any offense, fault, or the willful breaking of religious or moral law. Mankind is prone to some degree of sin: it is a barrier that can not be avoided. But it is a question as to what mankind can do in order to achieve redemption from sinister ways, and also how to redeem. However great a sin may seem, it can only augment itself by the perpetrator not owning up and taking responsibility for it. In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawtho...
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The Scarlet Letter Various Symbols
1,025 wordsThis got me a 39 / 40 in AP English. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The name strikes fear in the hearts of high school students everywhere because Hawthorne's 'wordy' novels, especially his 1849 The Scarlet Letter, have been at the top of English classes' required reading lists for years and will continue to be for years to come. In general, students have grown accustomed to superficial analyses of books, which encompasses reading and regurgitating 'literary facts' on multiple choice tests. However, when ...
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Scarlet Letter Hester Person In The World
1,029 wordsIn the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses Pearl as a symbol of the scarlet letter "A. " He also uses Pearl as a device to make Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale accept their sin of Adultery. Pearl achieves this by making Dimmesdale confess to the town that he has committed this sin and also by making her mother see that she is not as bad a sinner as she believes. When the Puritans look at Hester and Pearl, they think that Pearl is a child of the devil and think she is a black-hearted girl be...
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Scarlet Letter Abstract Form Hawthorne's
1,113 wordsBetween Hawthorne's earlier and his later productions there is no solution of literary continuity, but only increased growth and grasp. Rappaccini's Daughter, Young Goodman Brown, Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure, and The Artist of the Beautiful, on the one side, are the promise which is fulfilled in The Scarlet Letter and the House of The Seven Gables, on the other; though we should hardly have understood the promise had not the fulfillment explained it. The shorter pieces have a lyrical quality, b...
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Consequences Of Human Desire In The Scarlet Letter
684 wordsIn The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters suffer from the tolls of sin, but none as horribly as Hester's daughter, Pearl. Throughout the novel, Pearl is a symbol of the sin that her mother has committed, and also suffers from this sin. Pearl is portrayed as an offspring of vice, and is even characterized as demonic by her mother. The austere Puritan society isolates Pearl, causing animosity between her and the other Puritan children. Pearl is conceived in sin, is a con...
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Discussing Similarities In Four Works By Hawthorne
1,436 words... ere to give her such sway over all hearts (The Birthmark 11). It is the predominant characteristic of her face and is heightened when the lady blushes. Besides the mark, her face is filled with beauty. Aylmer becomes fixated with the mark and stares at it until Georgiana learns to shutter at his glance. One night Georgiana confronts her husband about a dream he had about the mark. In the dream Aylmer works with his assistant to remove the stain from her cheek, but the more he attempts to cut...
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The Scarlet Letter Symbols Displaying Character Emotions
829 wordsNathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter uses many different types of symbols throughout his book to portray the feelings and emotions of the characters. Hester, the main character of the book, is filled with many feelings, including pride and acceptance, surrounding her sin of adultery. Many of the people around Hester also reflect similar emotions and feelings and are reflected by the author through the use of colors. Nathanial Hawthorne employs many symbols throughout his book, as he uses the...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne
1,784 wordsThe Scarlet Letter Before disclosing his notions and beliefs on national morality, Hawthorne begins his story, The Scarlet Letter, with a discussion of the Puritan state of Salem set in the 1600 's. It is often problematic to discern Hawthorne's views about Puritanism due to his ambiguity. He reveres the Puritan conviction and their ability to conform to the controls of their faith. However, he condemns them for the bigotry and utter intolerance they show for opposing viewpoints and perspectives...
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Salem Witch Trials Hester Prynne
2,486 wordsThe Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne is a prose writer, the descendant of the ancient Puritan family, played an appreciable role in the New England history. His historical interests were closely connected to his epoch. The writer felt dissatisfaction with the conditions in the society. Searching for the roots of the public evil he, as well as all romantic humanists of New England, addressed the personality, its spiritual world, "secrets of human heart ." Hawthorne picked up the popular idea ab...
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Hester And Dimmesdale End Of The Story
1,112 words|The Scarlet Letter X In the Scarlet Letter, the author uses many different types of symbols to show what he has experienced as a young man, and what he has to say about the society during his time. The different settings of the story are ways in which he describes his environment and how it has treated him as a child. One symbol he uses a lot was the scarlet letter. The scarlet letter takes on different meanings as the course of the story progresses. It also takes on various appearances and sym...
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Three Main Characters Sin Of Adultery
1,279 wordsThe Scarlet H The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about the trials and tribulations of Hester Prynne, a woman living in colonial Boston. Found guilty of adultery, Hester's punishment is to wear a visible symbol of her sin: the scarlet letter A. Through the book, the reader comes to know Hester, the adulteress; Dimmesdale, the holy man Hester had the affair with; and Chillingworth, the estranged husband of Hester who is out for revenge. The Scarlet Letter examines the interaction of thes...
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Hester Prynne Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,701 wordsNATIONAL MORALITY IN HAWTHORNE S THE SCARLET LETTER Since the beginning of time, man has gathered himself in communities in order to better facilitate the needs and interests of individuals. As institutions developed to govern these communities, the idea of a collective good emerged. Central to the idea of a collective good is the responsibility of the community in forming a sense of national morality. Should this morality come from the government or religion? Perhaps, individuals should take re...
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People Of Boston Hester Prynne
577 wordsPunishment in The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter deals with many themes, the most powerful being punishment. In this novel, Hester Prynne becomes a highly respected person in a Puritan society by overcoming one of the harshest punishments, the scarlet letter. This object on her bosom; however, does the exact opposite of that which it was meant for. Eventually, Hester Prynne inverts all the odds against here due to her courage, pride and effort. Hester went beyond the letter of the...
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Mistress Hibbins Roger Chillingworth
2,354 wordsThe Scarlet Letter The 6 th Sense of Sinners In the Novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the society of a Puritan town of Boston excludes anyone who is a nonconformist or is in any way deviant from their thoughts, laws, and standards. However, the townspeople themselves are not without fault. However, they try to conceal and contain their passions and all their faults due to their own fear of being excluded. All the characters in the book who are excluded from society are the ones w...
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Hester And Pearl Hester And Dimmesdale
2,796 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne's background influenced him to write the bold novel The Scarlet Letter. One important influence on the story is money. Hawthorne had never made much money as an author and the birth of his first daughter added to the financial burden (Biographical Note VII). He received a job at the Salem Custom House only to lose it three years later and be forced to write again to support his family (IX). Consequently, The Scarlet Letter was published a year later (IX). It was only intended...
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Scarlet Letter Arthur Dimmesdale
1,140 wordsIn the novel The Scarlet Letter, the scarlet letter A has several meanings throughout the novel. For each character the scarlet letter stands for something different. Each of the main characters interprets the letter in different forms. The townspeople observe the letter as a form of shame and embarrassment. For Hester the letter takes on several different forms. Arthur Dimmesdale, the Reverend, sees the letter on Hester s breast as a constant torture of his sin and secrete. He goes through terr...
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Hester And Pearl Scarlet Letter
559 wordsThe Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, delivers a powerful novel invoked with symbolism. Centered on Hester, a woman branded with a scarlet? A? as a mark for adultery, much of the Scarlet Letter? s symbolism grows from the cruel, and shameful letter. The? A? symbolizes the? walking emblem of shame. ? (Hawthorne 6). Throughout the novel, the brand of disgust evolves around the characters influenced by Hester, including her illegitimate child Pearl. Even Pearl is subject to the shame her moth...
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Proctor And Abigail Sin Of Adultery
1,595 wordsComparing The Scarlet Letter to The Crucible Adultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, all of which would make an excellent coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and probably a pretty good book. Add narration, mass-hysteria and witch trials and the end result would be The Crucible, but if you added Puritan ideals and writing styles, making it long, drawn out, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine, and the end result is The Scarlet Letter. They are both conside...
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