characteristics as well. The Scarlet Letter had many powerful moments that made me think about the characters’ world. One moment that particularly stood out was when Reverend Dimmesdale was reflecting on the fact that he lied to all of the people in the village. He was the one who committed adultery with Hester Prynne. Dimmesdale was very torn over the fact that he had been corrupted. From this guilt he whipped himself profusely, this moment was extremely powerful. It gave me a great insight on really
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Denys Thompson English 11 22 May 201 English Final 1. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “God gave her into my keeping, “repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr. Dimmesdale, at whom, up to this moment, she had seemed hardly so much as once to direct her eyes The them I choose for this quote is motherhood and love. It really connects to the quote because Hester Prynne is raising her voice saying that God gave her
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, conveyed that Hester Prynne would, “go about the country as a kind of voluntary nurse, and doing whatever miscellaneous good she might; taking upon herself, likewise, to give advice in all matters, especially those of the heart.” He found old writings about Hester’s life. The author took these pages into consideration while he presented Hester to be someone that through repentance of her adultery sin she evolved to be generous and empathetic
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sin and commands that she must wear a scarlet “A” on her dress as a sign for adultery, shame and sins. Additionally, she must stand on a scaffold, exposed to public humiliation. The reason why is she had an affair with the local minister, Reverend Dimmesdale. The fact that he is a reverend makes the case much worse and also shows hypocrisy in the community, since the minister must be willing to exfoliate these actions. As Hester Prynne approaches the scaffold, many of the women in the crowd are angered
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characters who have sin and disguise these sins for their own salvation. Slowly these sins evolve the characters, it strengthens Hester, humanizes Dimmesdale, and turns Chillingworth into a demon. The story is Hawthorne’s depiction of the effects of sin on the hearts and minds of humanity during the Puritan society through the characters Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Hester’s sin is that her passion and love were of more importance to her than the Puritan moral code, but she learns the error
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At the turn of the 17th century, a new group of settlers arrived in America, resolving to establish a “city upon a hill” that would be the focal point for God’s grace in the New World and would serve as a model for the waves of pilgrims to come. In subsequent decades, the Puritans formed communities across New England; communities governed by and revolving around a strict interpretation of the Christian religion. Essentially, Puritan society was controlled and influenced by the relationship between
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Vanity and Forgiveness: The Scarlet Letter Paper History is a play written by the experienced hand of one of Rome’s most noble poets, and for us humans, we are the actors and the universe it our stage. The Homo sapiens species has mastered the x-, y-, and z-dimensions. The next dimension of time lay so far out of our reach that we cannot even snap a picture of it and fathom the whole of it, even with a selfie stick. For the hand of the human reaches out further than it has ever reached before. For
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people are able to experience no shame when the offense is brought to the public eye, or even to the eye of a few people influential in the life of the offender. Though people caught often feel shame, one can harshly self shame themselves as Reverend Dimmesdale did in The Scarlet Letter when he was too cowardly to admit his sin to the public. People with strong morality will punish themselves when they know what they did was wrong. In general, when a crime is brought to the public's eye, the offender is
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This novel is a response to Puritanism because it shows what things were like during the Puritan times. The Scarlet Letter portrays the Puritan era as very strict and as a very hard time to live during. In this novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates his dislike for Puritan times by writing about what he thought Puritans were like. Hawthorne shows how strict it was by writing about Hester’s punishments. During modern times, Hester probably wouldn’t have had any kind of punishments, but during Puritan
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and participated in the punishment. This depicts external conflicts of herself and her daughter because they were ostracized from the society and forced to live in isolation. However, other male characters are not punished as severely as she is. Dimmesdale who committed adultery with Hester was not chastened and ironically seems to correct the townspeople and the magistrates. He ascribes to himself the authority to offer a hierarchy of sins and considered his crime less than that of Chillingworth
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