In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne explored the superficially-Christian ideals of Boston's Puritan society by revealing the sins committed by many individuals in the community. In this novel, Hester Prynne was an obvious sinner, forced by the community to forever harbor the scarlet letter on her chest as a reminder of her sin. Roger Chillingworth could also be considered a sinner for lying about his identity and mentally torturing his patient, Arthur Dimmesdale. However, one would be surprised
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The author will conduct her research method with a survey. The instrument that will be used will be an interview with Zmira King-Elbaz, a psychologist at the Lester B. Pearson School Board. This school board has a fairly large faculty and staff (N= 1000-5000), where the author will have a sample of one psychologist (n=1). It is to be expected that she will be in favour of having the street name changed to Doctor Penfield Avenue, taking into account his contributions to McGill University and more
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Within Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, there are elements such as irony and truth that present themselves through deliberate syntactic manipulation. Hawthorne expresses his truth through irony, whether that be with situational, dramatic, and/or verbal. This novel was written with the intentional purpose of analysis. It’s essential to first ascertain the simple truth mentioned in the previous paragraph, and that would be desire. The desire the “godly” Reverend Dimmesdale feels contrasts
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to a bird when he states, “What little bird of scarlet plumage may this be? Methinks I have seen just such figures, when the sun has been shining through a richly painted window, and tracing out the golden and crimson images across the floor.” (Hawthorne 105-106). This comparison draws the connection between Pearl and the scarlet letter closer due to Wilson’s comment on the extravagantness of her scarlet colored dress. The dress she wears was sew by Hester to be elaborate and finely made like the
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The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is related to American society in 2016 in which “sins” of adultery are still committed, and the idea of individuality are still present but the idea of a church or religion surrounding a society is not still present. Adultery is committed on a daily basis in American society, as it wasn’t too common in the nineteenth century. The Scarlet Letter's’ main theme in the story is about sin and how it was frowned upon in the Puritan society. Although, Puritan
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forgiveness and admits that Pearl is his daughter. Then, Dimmesdale says his final goodbyes to Hester. He tells her that he fears that his transgression will kept them from meeting again, but he is already paying with the mark God placed upon his chest (Hawthorne 172-174). The mark proves Dimmesdale’s guilty conscience, as he is remorseful for committing a sin, and uses the revelation of his chest to display how he also bears Hester’s burden. Color is the second symbol that shows Dimmesdale’s negative feelings
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“[Hester] bore in her arms a child…its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquaintance only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison” wrote Nathanial Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter about the child born beneath that letter: Pearl (57). The main character Hester Prynne’s illegitimate daughter substantiates herself in the novel through the persistent questioning of her birth story—“Tell me!”—along with providing an unlikely perception unparalleled to the other
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In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne uses many symbols throughout the book that help give a contrast to the outside world. One of the symbols that he uses is the woods that represent a place of evil but also privacy. When Hester enters into the woods with Pearl, Pearl mentions a story about a Black Man who “ haunts the forest and carries a book with him... this ugly Black Man offers this book and an iron pen to everybody that meets him here among the trees; and they are
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When Goodman Brown meets the man whom Hawthorne later reveals to be the devil, Hawthorne draws attention to the man’s staff, which resembles a black serpent. The staff strongly suggests the man’s supernatural and sinful nature, and it connects “Young Goodman Brown” to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve’s temptation by a serpent to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Goodman Brown and Faith, like Adam and Eve, are tempted to do what is forbidden in their community and lose their innocence for
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illegitimate daughter, Pearl. When Chillingworth comes back to the Puritan town in Boston, he looks like a man “well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholarlike visage, with eyes dim and bleared… with left shoulder a trifle higher than the right” (Hawthorne 56) Chillingworth's adverse physiognomy makes him becomes
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