A Comparison Of Quasimodo In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter the tone is evil and creepy; this tone is connected directly to the character Chillingworth who displays these characteristics. Chillingworth is described as a weird and creepy man. Throughout the story he becomes older and viewed as evil and vengeful. Hawthorne of compared Chillingworth to the devil. The comparison and Chillingworth's action in the novel help portray the evil tone.

In essence, there were three main sins committed in The Scarlet Letter, the sins of Hester, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth committed the greatest sin because he let himself be ruled by hatred and the consuming desire for vengeance.  The overpowering vengeance and hatred felt by Chillingworth caused his life to be centered on demeaning Dimmesdale and tormenting him until the end of time.  Both Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale committed sins for which they were deeply remorseful, Roger Chillingworth, however, committed the greater sin because he felt no guilt.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne presents the reader with the harsh, life changing conflicts of three Puritan characters during the 17th century. Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Robert Chillingworth must endure their different, yet surprisingly similar struggles as the novel progresses. Despite their similarities, Hawthorne shows these individuals deal with their conflicts differently, and in the end, only one prevails. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s intricately critical diction helps determine his didactic tone; during the course of The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne reveals that happiness can be harnessed through one’s perseverance.

In the nineteenth century novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes different origins of allusions and archetypes to emphasize how individuals in order to encourage individuals to forgive sins and work towards redemption.

Throughout, “The Scarlet Letter,” Hawthorne is able to enhance the plot by intricately incorporating symbols which represent a deeper meaning. One of which, is the infamous, and ambiguous, scarlet letter that lays upon the bosom of Hester Prynne. In the beginning of the book, the audience is immediately introduced to the scarlet letter as a symbol of shame and adultery. The narrator describes the Puritan society as very judgemental and harsh. Comments like, “This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die,” creates this negative and unwelcoming atmosphere which surrounds Hester for a majority of the book. From then on, the Puritans constantly refer to the

In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the theme of sin viewed through the prism of many colors is the essence of the novel. The protagonist, Hester, her child, Pearl, and the Reverend Dimmesdale all live in a Puritanical society in Boston, and are subject to the Puritans' strict religious beliefs and rigid attitudes. Exposed to sin and the temptation of its concealment in varying degrees, these characters evolve through the novel in different ways. Hawthorne brilliantly displays these differences by juxtaposing extreme and vivid colors—concealment is shown in dark, drab, and gloomy shades, while openness has a bright and colorful sheen. In this way, Hawthorne establishes a dichotomy between lack of color and color in order to show

Be The Change You Wish To See Often in literature as in life, characters and people witness and experience discrimination, racial injustice, under education/poverty, prejudice, and pollution. Regardless of the conflict or time period, the characters and people often become negatively affected. Among these negatively affected, there are always those who fearlessly stand up for their beliefs. Standing up for what you believe in also requires a great deal of bravery. In the following three speeches and novel - Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman”, President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “The Great Society”, Shirley Chisholm’s “Equal Rights for Women”, and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” - taking a stand with bravery shows.

When people are younger, “evil” is a word to describe something which is surprisingly scary. In the elementary schools, people think “evil” is the word for children who do not follow teachers’ instructions. As the time changes, during people’s teenage periods, “evil” becomes a word to describe enemies or others who do not have same opinions with them. While people’s ages change, they make connections between evil and sin. Moreover, the boundaries between good and evil secretly appear and classify objects in humans’ brains. The book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a fiction story about a woman whose name is Hester Prynne commits adultery with a well-known minister in town whose name is Dimmesdale and produce Pearl as

The author, Nathan Hawthorne, of "The Scarlet Letter" uses two of his characters in particular to display the idea of rugged individualism. The referenced individuals are named Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth and are both key players in Hawthorne's work. According to Marxist literary critics, the rugged individual exhibits traits of a person for their own gain or towards their own goals as opposed to the goals of the group as a whole and has no concern for anything besides said goals and their own appearance. This pursuit leads the characters to "often take risks" (Tyson p.57) that other individuals would not which can lead to the person being expelled from society. This is seen in both characters through the story from the 'fall from grace' that Hester goes through that leaves her as a literal outcast or the townspeople viewing Chillingworth as a miracle worker at first before their opinions flip to see him as "like the black

A stark contrast exists between the law and righteousness. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, the subjects of Puritan society live and die by the law. Religious and government leaders possess absolute control of 17th century Boston and enforce the law as they see fit. This law envelops all parts of life under religious tenets, which eliminates any separation of church and state. Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter illustrates that all people obey or defy the law to abate their insecurities.

Once upon a time, there was a dear little girl called Scarlet who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her mother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. On Scarlet’s sixth birthday, her mother suddenly fell ill and soon passed away. Scarlet’s father, being unable to resign and accept the reality, quit his job as a hired herdsman and started hunting in order to distract himself from his grief. He could hardly bear to catch a glimpse of Scarlet’s sight, for she resembled her mother too much. Thus, he neglected his daughter and spent most of his time hunting out in the woods. For this reason, his mother, Scarlet’s grandmother, decided to come and live with them. Grandmother’s permanent stay was

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter emphasises the behavior of the characters to propose that hypocrisy creates a culture that solely relies on appearance and conformity, while effacing genuity in society.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book the Scarlet Letter he gives the readers a view into the life of the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay colony. Though the reader would most likely see this story of two adulterers, Hawthorne gives the audience the underlying tone that he is exposing the hypocrisy of the Puritans. He shows the hypocrisy of character in Reverend Dimmsdale and how he was perceived to be holy to the community, and he also displays a community and how they are supposed to live holy lives devoted to God but they blatantly ignore some of their own teachings. Hypocrisy is the practice of virtues one does not believe in. Hawthorne makes examples of hypocrisy in Hester Prynne and her sin, Reverend Dimmesdale and his denial of what he did, and the townspeople how they gossiped about and condemned Hester which are some of the antitheses of their beliefs.

   "...pain is in itself an evil; and indeed, without exception, the only evil; or else the words good and evil have no meaning." (Chase 127) In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a very clear view of his stand on morality, which he carefully cultivates through the course of the story. The moral, which is "Be true!" applies equally well to all of the characters in the novel. Though his view does seem to stand as true through the length of the story, it does not, unfortunately, transfer as smoothly to our lives today. In essence it is a hedonistic view to take, which requires a slight stretch as to his interpretation as to how evil, and important, an individual's pain is unto

As American-British novelist Mark Lawrence once said, “We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next”. The aforementioned contradictions are what lead to conflicts, and in turn growth and acceptance. Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his revolutionary classic The Scarlet Letter, delves into the conflicts that the brave, yet infamous Hester Prynne has to overcome. As Hawthorne unfolds the unfortunate tragedy of Hester and her mysterious lover, the battles Hester has to face are multiple external and internal stimuli that bring about the growth of Hester as a character. The onerous obstacles that Hester must face through her life wear her out mentally, but only then can she truly grow and accept who she is.