Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic short story “The Minister's Black Veil” is a critique of Puritan religious views because of the exposal of hypocrisy in the Puritan credences, while the Puritans value veracity with themselves and God through good doings and bad. When someone decides to follow through with this action the critique is displayed as the Puritan followers harshly judge and shun him, with judgment being one of the most deadly forbidden sins in Puritanism. The Puritan religion established
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society. Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman, moved to New England while her husband stayed behind in England. While she was alone, she had an affair with Reverend Dimmesdale and they have a daughter named Pearl. In the Puritan society, Adultery is one of the utmost sins that can be committed. When it became known that Hester was an adulteress, she was sentenced to prison and public punishment. Due to the oppressive nature of the Puritan society, Hawthorne writes of the Puritans’ forcing Hester to wear
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Lastly, Hester becomes more of her old self, passionate and tenacious, at the end of the novel. Prynne displays how she reacts to going to Europe and how she still cares for her daughter, Pearl. This also reveals how people still react to her at the end. Prynne appears to be more passionate and tenacious than in chapters 10-18, she is not as cold towards others because maybe she has hope because she is going to Europe with Dimmesdale and start a brand new life. However, during Dimmesdale appearance
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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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frowned upon in the Puritan society. Although, Puritan belief is set as they think that everyone is a sinner as they were born that way. The Puritans maintained strict watch over themselves and their townspeople, and sins were punishable by death. Hester Prynne had committed adultery with Dimmesdale which
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their life. Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter are no exception. These wrongdoings contribute to an overall theme of the novel. This theme is sin. There are many symbols in the novel that draw attention to this theme, such as color and the scarlet letter. There is more symbols that are present in the novel and have high importance, however these two stand out significantly. Through instances involving Hester, Dimmesdale
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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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Dimmesdale when he realizes his wife Hester Prynne commits adultery with Dimmesdale and has an 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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In, The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates the life and punishment of Hester Prynne and her companions in the New England Puritan society. In particular, Reverend Dimmesdale and Dr. Chillingworth are two who are punished. They are not punished directly such as a whipping or torture, but are forced to bear guilt and personal shame which can lead to mental torture. These repressed feelings lead to the different eccentric actions though out the book these were first thought to control
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Reverend Hale Reverend Hale had one of the saddest stories in The Crucible. He went to help during the Salem witch trials with good intentions but ended up hurting more people than he could help. That is why Hale is directly relatable to the song “Starting Over”, by Macklemore. Both Hale and the song are sad and miserable. In The Crucible Hale was a sad, gullible, minister who did not know who was speaking the truth. The song itself is about a sad man who relapsed with his drinking
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