...Sin can alienate an individual. Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates this concept in his novel “The Scarlet Letter” by involving the three main characters Hester, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale. The sin in which Hester, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale have done excludes them from society, self, and God. Hester Prynne is a lady who committed the crime of adultery. She was pointed out by society with a scarlet A on her chest so when people looked at her, they seen her sin and isolated her. In “The Scarlet Letter” it quotes “But the point which drew all eyes and, as it were, transfigured the wearer- so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time- was that...
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...There are many “sinners” that believe their actions shouldn’t be frowned upon in the novel, The Scarlet Letter”, but many people do not recall which character had a greater outcome of sin making. Throughout the novel thoughts became obvious about who this character might be, but then the words jumped out at me as the thought of one character who was a greater sinner than most. It becomes obvious throughout the story that Chillingworth has committed the greater sin throughout his whole life. The Scarlet Letter is full of romance and redemption amongst all of the main characters in Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the 17th-century of the year 1642 to 1649. Hester, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth are three of the many characters in this “Master Piece” and they all have one very thing in common which is the fact that they all are sinners of their own making....
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...Does sin truly affect the downfall of society? In many ways, sin constantly influences the downfall of society by creating differences in a conformed society and providing pressure to conform to that society. During the Puritan times, sinning was amidst the worst crimes to commit and the punishments were often very harsh, which often led to death. The Scarlet Letter, a romantic fiction novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, tells the story of two lovers, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, that faces temptations, but in the end, deal with immense suffering. The novel validates the theme of “Sin Leading to a Better Understanding of Humanity” clearly through the actions of the main characters. Hester throughout the story experiences judgment from the town of Boston, Massachusetts for committing the sin of adultery and is forced to wear...
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...The way she felt on that day stayed encapsulated within the Scarlet Letter which she never removed. In Hester’s mind, to have the letter removed would mean to have a part of her cut from her body, a segment of her past completely erased. Because of this mindset, Hester remained imprisoned by the scarlet symbol of sin but freed from her previous ideas of society. When Hester looked upon the forest that she often visited, she saw a whole new world that was yet to be discovered, one of beautiful landscapes untouched by people such as those that lived amongst her. Although Boston was where her sin occurred, she knew it did not have to be her resting place, which is the opposite of how Dimmesdale, still suffering internally, felt about the matter. Being in the forest made her question the strict society that she grew up with, and without the Scarlet Letter, Hester’s many revelations about the world she lives in would simply not have come at...
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... Dimmesdale, who has not been forced to bear a scarlet letter for his play in the sin, complains, “‘But as matters stand with my soul, whatever good capacity there originally was in me, all of God’s gifts that were the choicest have become the ministers of spiritual torment. Hester, I am most miserable!’” however it is ironic how Hester, who has felt with public embarrassment, does not complain, therefore women are stronger than men (Hawthorne, 187). Nature is more forgiving than the Puritan religion Hester and Dimmesdale sit together as, "The forest was obscure around them, and creaked with a blast that was passing through it. The boughs were tossing heavily above their heads; while one solemn old tree groaned dolefully to another, as if telling the sad story of the pair that sat beneath, or constrained to forbade evil to come, ” and these trees are more understanding than the Puritan religion which demonstrates nature is more forgiving than the Puritan religion (Hawthorne, 192). Sinning improves lives Hester knows that, “The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude!” These all qualities she experienced after sinning providing that sinning teaches lessons to people to help improve their lives (Hawthorne, 196). The lesser sin should be ignored After learning of Chillingworth’s identity, Dimmesdale says, “‘We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted...
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...Chapter 22, “The Procession” of The Scarlet Letter configures all the components into place to reveal the conclusion of the novel. The entire chapter is committed to the foreshadowing of events that expose the true relationship between Dimmesdale and Hester to the entire Puritan community. Therefore, Hawthorne makes great efforts to depict the atmosphere of the procession. To present the reader with a general comprehension of the era, Hawthorne sets the scene with a thorough analysis of monarchy power. He extensively describes how the of flaunt of strength from the monarchy overpowers almost everything. This exhibits his aversion to those who receive power without working for it. Hawthorne elaborates on how primitive statement were elected by power rather than qualities- “elevated to power by the early choice of the people, seem to...
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...Chillingworth’s revenge in The Scarlet Letter develops into a lifelong obsession. He tells Hester Prynne that whoever the father is will be punished just as bad as she was. The reader can foreshadow that Chillingworth is greatly affected because of Hester’s sin and is becoming evil. Chillingworth easily could have exposed Hester’s secret but it didn’t give him the same pleasure as torturing Dimmesdale. He was happy to see Dimmesdale suffer. Instead of being DImmesdale’s doctor, Chillingworth makes him worse by using psychological techniques to mess with his mind. Chillingworth becomes destroyed by revenge. Not only is he destroyed but his appearance drastically changes. Chillingworth turns evil and transforms into a devilish looking figure....
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...Human desires mean a lot to people, because it’s something that you want, and you’re going to try to do everything to make that happen. In “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, all the characters in the book including Hester Prynne, the woman that committed Adultery with Arthur Dimmesdale who was a priest, and a religious man, had dealt with their desires being uncontrolled, because it was their passion, Hester was punished with the letter “A” on her chest, which symbolized to society her affair. I think that human desire shouldn’t be an exercise in temperance, because we should try to make our desires come true even though if it’s uncontrollable ,because a desire is your purpose in life. Hester Prynne who was one of the protagonists...
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...The novel, The Scarlet Letter is a novel that contains a lot of rhetorical devices. It contains metaphors, allusions, rhetorical questions, parallel structure, alliteration, etc. In chapter 11, Dimmesdale is having so much conflict with him hiding the sin that he had committed and the guilt is eating him inside. In this chapter the writer uses Parallel structure, Hyperboles, metaphors, and similes. The author, Nathaniel Hawthorne used some rhetorical questions,hyperbole, personification, and parallel structure, “ Then, what was he?—a substance?—or the dimmest of all shadows? ...from his own pulpit, at the full height of his voice, and tell the people what he was. “I, whom you …, I, who ascend the sacred desk...I, in whose daily.. I, whose footsteps, as you suppose, leave a gleam along my earthly track...—I, who have laid the hand of baptism upon your children,—I, who have, to whom the Amen sounded faintly from a world which they had quitted,—I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!” (Page 132) The author is showing how Dimmesdale feels internally over this situation, he ( dimmesdale) has repeated themselves over and...
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...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 to be a long short story, but the extra money a novel would bring in was needed ("Introduction" XVI). Hawthorne then wrote an introduction section titled "The Custom House" to extend the length of the book and The Scarlet Letter became a full novel (XVI). In addition to financial worries, another influence on the story is Hawthorne's rejection of his ancestors. His forefathers were strict Puritans, and John Hathorne, his great-great-grandfather, was a judge presiding during the Salem witch trials ("Biographical Note" VII). Hawthorne did not condone their acts and actually spent a great deal of his life renouncing the Puritans in general (VII). Similarly, The Scarlet Letter was a literal "soapbox" for Hawthorne to convey to the world that the majority of Puritans were strict and unfeeling. For example, before Hester emerges from the prison she is being scorned by a group of women who feel that she deserves a larger punishment than she actually receives. Instead of only being made to stand on the scaffold and wear the scarlet letter on her chest...
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...Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter during the 1800s in Boston, Massachusetts when men were the dominant gender in society. The whole book is based on how Puritan society always chose men over women. They would punish women constantly and without any hesitation. In this book, Hawthorne writes about Hester who had an affair but had also recently gave birth to a child. Throughout the book we tend to see how there were many punishments towards women. Hawthorne lets us know that he is not on the same side as all of these Puritans because he thinks that women do need to have rights and should be able to be independent. While Puritans wanted women to be pure and always be in the house hold, in this book we realize that if you made a...
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...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, but the longer romances express more than a mere combination of lyrics; they have a rich, multifarious life of their own. The material is so wrought as to become incidental to something loftier and greater, for which our previous analysis of the contents of the egg had not prepared us. The Scarlet Letter was the first, and the tendency of criticism is to pronounce it the most impressive, also, of these ampler productions. It has the charm of unconsciousness; the author did not realize while he worked, that this "most prolix among tales" was alive with the miraculous vitality of genius. It combines the strength and substance of an oak with the subtle organization of a rose, and is great, not of malice aforethought, but inevitably. It goes to the root of the matter, and reaches some unconventional conclusions, which, however, would scarce be apprehended by one reader in twenty. For the external or literal significance of the story, though in strict correspondence with the spirit, conceals that spirit from the literal eye. The reader may choose his depth according to his inches but only a tall man will touch the bottom. The punishment of the scarlet letter is a historical fact; and, apart from the symbol thus ready provided to the author's hand, such a book as The Scarlet Letter...
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...“ Fear the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” - George Lucas. Hester’s sin of adultery destroyed both men- Dimmesdale by guilt and Chillingworth by revenge. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Chillingworth's vengeance was the cause of Dimmesdale's death. Chillingworth hated Dimmesdale because he took Hester from him and left her to deal with the consequences of their sin alone. What should have been a warm and loving homecoming after being apart from his wife was terrible. He was left confused and alone. "A man, elderly, travel-worn, who, just emerging from the perilous wilderness, beheld the woman, in whom he hoped to find embodied the warmth and cheerfulness of home, set up as a type of sin before the people." (Hawthorne 9). When Chillingworth arrives in the colony and learns of Hester's situation, he leaves her alone as he single-mindedly pursues Dimmesdale by intriguing him in education. Educated men were...
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...Praise for Jesus Is _____. “Judah Smith is a unique gift to my generation. In Jesus Is _____ , he will motivate you to let go of your preconceived, limited view of Jesus so you can embrace who He really is in our lives—more real and relevant than we have ever imagined.” —S te v en F u rtick , le a d pa Stor , e le vation c h u rch a n d author oF th e Ne w Yor k T im es beStSeller G r e aTer “Perhaps the most daunting and humbling task we have as Christians is to finish the sentence ‘Jesus is . . . .’ As many of us saved by His grace are aware, He is King. He is Lord. He is salvation. But to many in our world, He is most prominently . . . misunderstood. There is not another human being on earth whom I know personally, who could tackle a book subject like this as well as Judah Smith. To Judah, Jesus is everything. And from that platform he writes this book. I eagerly await its impact in my city, New York City, and beyond . . . it’s overdue.” —c a r l l entz , le a d pa Stor , h illSong c h u rch , n e w Yor k c it Y “Every once in a while a book is written that does not only contain a powerful message but the author is a living embodiment of the message thus making the book all the more life changing! The book you are holding in your hands is one of those. As you read through this book you will discover that Jesus is not at all like you thought and so much more than you imagined.” —c h r iStin e c a in e , Fou n der oF th e a21 c a mpa ign 00-01_Jesus Is.indd...
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...CFC YOUTH FOR CHRIST 3‐Year Pastoral Formation Track Year 1 YOUTH CAMP MANUAL 2009 Revised Edition CFC Youth for Christ YEAR 1: YOUTH CAMP MANUAL (2009 Edition) 1 The CFC Youth for Christ Youth Camp Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS I. ORGANIZING A CFC YOUTH FOR CHRIST YOUTH CAMP A. The Youth Camp B. The Challenges C. The Youth Camp Objectives D. Important Conditions E. Practical Considerations II.THE TEAM LEADER’S GUIDE A. Youth Camp General Schedule of Activities B. Goals of the Youth Camp C. Achieving the goals of the Youth Camp through the YFC 4F’s D. Attitudes of the Youth Camp Team Leader E. Roles and Responsibilities of the Team Leader/Assistant Team Leader F. Roles and Responsibilities of the Couple Coordinators G. Practical Matters in the Youth Camp Preparations H. Practical Tips I. Speaker’s and Sharer’s Profile III.THE YOUTH CAMP TALKS A. The Gospel Message B. Sharing the message in the Youth Camp C. The Gospel and Youth Camp talks D. Final Tips E. Talk 1: God’s Love and His Plan for Us F. Talk 2: Who is Jesus Christ to Me? G...
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