Analysis Of The Book ' The Scarlet Letter '

Hester ends up becoming pregnant from this encounter. She has her daughter Pearl from it. Hester is forced to wear a letter A on her chest at all times because of this. This shows that in this time period, people were very limited when it came to marriage and sex. She was unable to deal with the matter privately because the church is what ruled the law in that time. The 10 commandments were laws to them. Hester ends up being in prison for becoming pregnant and isn’t release for a while. After she was released, she was forced to wear the big, red A that was supposed to symbolize the fact that she had an affair. She was the image of the fallen for the

While standing on the platform, Hester recognizes a man in the crowd who is accompanied by an Indian. This man inquires about her and why she is there. This is where we learn that she has committed adultery (the scarlet letter “A” is for adultery).

The characters in the Scarlet Letter are judged greatly through how and who they are able and unable to forgive. Such as the main female lead, Hester Prynne, and her struggle for the town to forgive her, finding the will to forgive herself and having God forgive her. Although, this was hard because every day she had to live with the scarlet letter upon her chest as a reminder of her sin. Another character that had one of the roughest times in the novel was Arthur Dimmesdale. This man kept a sin hidden for most of the novel and let it eat him away. The person that Dimmesdale needed to forgivehim the most was Pearl. He spent most of the novel trying to earn her beloved trust. Pearl would ask him favors to go into town with her but it

Hester was soon shunned by the community for not only the sin she had committed, but also her secretiveness about who the father was. When Hester and Pearl were publicly humiliated on the scaffold, citizens had openly proclaimed about wanting to hang Hester at the Gallows. On page 32 one of the Goodwives stated “‘This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die-’”. Hester was extremely criticized for the sin she committed by being in an intimate relationship with a man she was not married to. This act caused the community to punish her by placing a scarlet A upon her chest. This A is described to be made with “fantastic flourishes of gold-thread” (Hawthorne 35). Initially the community

Consequently, she must be punished by having an embroidered (‘ ‘) “A”, which stands for adultery, worn upon her chest for the rest of her life. As a result, her consequence forces her to overcome her past, even though there are many problems and distractions between her husband and the father of her child. Hester grows from her mistake into a better person. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows how Hester Prynne

Why was Hester the only one punished? Would her punishment be different in some other country? Is this punishment still taking place today? A sin is a sin regardless of what sin it may be and they all should be handled in different punishments. But never should you over look someone else’s sin and just punish one for what took place.

Chapters 9 and 10 investigate the relationship in the middle of Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. On one level, Chillingworth speaks to "science" and Dimmesdale speaks to "deep sense of being." Like Chillingworth 's disfigured shoulders, Dimmesdale 's disease is an outward sign of an internal condition, and not medication or religion suffices to cure it. What hampers his recuperation is his failure to admit his infidelity with Hester, which is by all accounts due, in any event to a limited extent, to the group 's reliance on the adolescent priest. He comprehends that he, in the same way as Hester, is an image of an option that is bigger than himself—for his situation, devotion and goodness. As it were, admitting would mean mending himself at the cost of the community.dimmesdale considers other, apparently hopeless good contemplations. The numerous disagreements that he experiences may come from the constrictive and off and on again two-faced nature of the ethical framework. For instance, the priest declines to wed any of the ladies in the group who show sympathy toward him, both out of a feeling of duty to Hester and out of an unwillingness to embroil a blameless outsider in a dim history of "sin." On the other hand, by inactively holding up for God to deal with things, as he proclaims himself to be doing, Dimmesdale causes Hester to endure awfully.

Nevertheless, Hester accepts her punishment for adultery and faces all that comes her way with it. She may accept wearing the scarlet A trimmed with gold thread as a decoration but it was a burden she carried around daily, and Hester accepting her sin has unhappy results. In Chapter 2, the author mentions that the scarlet letter took Hester out of ordinary relations with humanity and enclosed her in a sphere by herself. As a result, to this Hester becomes lonely because the only person she has is Pearl who is the product of her sin. Although, Hester may not suffer as much as the other characters her sin is widely known to the community and she has

- This tells how Dimmesdale is keeping a safe distance from the drill of Roger Chillingworth’s words. However, he cannot really see that Roger Chillingworth is a friend or not so that is why he is keeping a safe distance from him. As we know Dimmesdale is like a safe, he will never tell him the sin he is keeping

As the novel progresses, readers watch Hester transform herself from once adulterer to selfless civilian. In the beginning, readers learn quickly of Hester’s egregious sins. She cannot conceal her sin of adultery from her town as she has a child named Pearl as a result. She is publicly punished by being forced “…to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory, and then and thereafter, for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom” (Hawthorne 56). Hester must wear a scarlet letter ‘A’, which symbolizes adulterer, on her chest so that every person that comes upon her knows of the sin she has committed. Initially, Hester is mortified of the public symbol of sin she is made out to be and feels an immense amount of shame because of the callous stares from villagers. Eventually, she and Pearl move to the outskirts of town to try to move on with their lives while the indignity of the letter “A” follows. Over time, Hester begins to be a valuable aspect of society in that she sews clothes for the community and delivers food to the poor among many other good deeds. The townspeople begin to view Hester as a hard worker and her past slowly begins to fade. The once infamous letter becomes “…the symbol of her calling” and “… many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original

What Does the construction and furnishing of Governor Bellingham’s Mansion reveal about the Governor and Puritan culture?

“The Scarlet Letter” is the magnum opus of it’s author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in 1850 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields in Boston. The novel takes place in Puritan Boston, Massachusetts in the 1640’s, telling the story of Hester Prynne. Although it was an immediate hit, the people of Salem protested against it because of how it portrayed them, which led Hawthorne to publish a second-version with an added preface that explained he meant no harm. One of the major themes of this book, in my opinion, is self-identification is more important than what society identifies you as.

Hester gets punished for committing adultery. Adultery is when you have sexual encounters when you are married with another person who isn’t your spouse or vice versa. Her punishment is she is being forced to wear the scarlet letter which in this case is the letter A which stands for “adultery”. She has to wear the scarlet letter on her chest for life. Hester isn’t really affected with wearing the scarlet letter. She just keeps going on with her life. One of the only thing that helps keep her intact is her ability to do great needlework. I feel like Pearl doesn’t really know what to think of her mom with the scarlet letter on her chest. I have different views on the punishment. I think that it is awful that she has the letter A printed on

“Individuals...had quite forgiven Hester Prynne...It is our Hester, the town’s own Hester, who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick...” (149). Hester is protected from all evil that might be around her, and “had the effect of the cross on a nun’s bosom” (149). The letter became a symbol of love and respect, and meant something good. Hester is able to deal with the townspeople, and they see her and have a new liking for her. They seem to forgive her for everything that she has done, like it doesn't matter, or it never happened. If Hester ran away from Boston, it would have shown her weakness. It would have shown that people of the town had power over her, and could make her feel guilty. Running away would show everybody that she was ashamed, and wasn't really good enough to live among them. Staying in Boston showed the townspeople that she was able to overcome her shame and that adultery is a part of who she is as a person. By accepting her adultery Hester is able to move on, having learned from her experiences. At one point Hester says: “Were I to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak of a different purport” (155). This foreshadows that the letter A might show up in new ways.

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted for too long a series of generations in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.” (23)-Nameless narrator’s narration