Analysis Of The Novel ' Scarlet Letter '

In chapters 9-15 of The Scarlet Letter, the author decides to dedicate an entire chapter to each character. For example, on chapter 9, the chapter is dedicated to what happens with Roger. Roger becomes friends with Arthur Dimmesdale in chapter 9. Dimmesdale is sick, and he thinks Roger is kind and suspects nothing. But Roger, who is Arthur's personal physician, begins to suspect that Dimmesdale is hiding something from him. At this part of the book, we don't know what the author plans for Dimmesdale to hide, if he even is hiding anything at all.

In his book, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells of a story where a young woman has had an adulterous relationship with a respected priest in a Puritan community. Typical of Hawthorne's writings is the use of imagery and symbolism. In Chapter 12, The Minister's Vigil, there are several uses of imagery when Dimmesdale, the priest, is battling with confessing his sin, which has plagued him for seven years. Three evident techniques used to personify symbolism in this chapter are the use of darkness versus light, the use of inner guilt versus confession, and lastly the use of colors (black versus white).

It was not just Pearl’s aggressive, imaginative form of play that got her in trouble; Pearl was a bad, misbehaved child. Pearl “lacked reference and adaptation to the world into which she was born. The child could not be made amenable to rules” (page 74). Pearl was an outcast, along with her mother. She did not fit in with the community. How could she fit into a community that valued order over everything else? Pearl “who was a dauntless child” (page 83) did not even act like the other children. “After frowning, stamping her and shaking her little hand with a variety of threatening gestures, suddenly made a rush at the knot of her enemies,” (page 83).

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

Her warm and affectionate education care makes Pearl a better discipline human than the puritans hard and rod applications. When the governor tries to separate her daughter, she can able to compete the Governors and save her daughter taking away from her. Although, she has to face the confrontation with Goverer Bellingham, she opposes to bring up her child boldly in a proper way she desires. Hawthrone describes Pearl an and a beautiful child to show that a result of love making is pure and beautiful than an arranged marriage.

In the book The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, young Pearl is used mainly as symbols throughout the novel. As the daughter of the Hester, the adulterer, she is viewed as a witch and the beast who put the letter on her mother’s chest. She is a unique and interesting character that Hawthorne gives many concealed symbols to. Because she is a child, Pearl can naturally sense the emotions of adults.

From birth she has had an obsession with the object. She instinctively reached out and grabs it as an infant. She makes herself her very own scarlet letter out of seaweed. She plays in the forest with the plants and animals. Pearl is nature's child.

Pg. 81. Pearl is perfect at birth, she is describes as, “worthy to have been brought forth in Eden” however, “the various prosperities of her inner life” brought down her perfection over time. Pearl is the result of an illegitimate sexual affair, and because of this she is less beautiful to the people of the town.

The chapter begins with Pearl and Hester headed towards the Governor’s Hall looking to believe if the rumors are true of the town leaders going to split them up. When arriving at the Governor’s mansion, Pearl finds a mirror that distorts shapes; “Owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance. “(57). When the narrator points that out it makes me feel as if Hester doesn’t see herself as a person anymore and is just the scarlet letter that she has to wear daily. She also views another reminder, her daughter Pearl; in the mirror Hester sees Pearl as an imp and not her daughter.

The Scarlet Letter, a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel that takes place in the town of Boston, Massachusetts in 1642. Hester Prynne, the main character of the story, commits the sin of adultery. Because of this sin, she is "blessed" with a child named Pearl. Her punishment is to wear a scarlet letter “A" on her chest for the rest of her life, which affects the way the townspeople look and act around her. Also, she must stand on the scaffold in the town for three hours for the whole town to recognize her grave sins. The man who should be standing upon the scaffold along with her and Pearl is the town minister, Dimmesdale. He is presented as a weak character because of his fear of losing his beloved reputation as such a holy

In the stories of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the antagonist characters display parallel story lines through their searches for the enemy. Roger Chillingworth, the former husband of Hester Prynne and the antagonist of The Scarlet Letter, works against his wife in order to find her untold second lover. Frankenstein is a contrasting story in which an unnamed monster is the antagonist towards his human creator, Dr. Frankenstein. Yet despite quite different story lines, the two characters possess traits that exibit parallels between them. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth displays the startling passionate characteristics of an unwavering drive to seek out his foe, madness as his focus on his search takes over his entire being, and terrible anguish when his task is unexpectedly over, all of which are reflected in the daemon created at the hand of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein.

Pearl is seen as a disgraceful child that goes against everything the Puritans are about because she is a product of the sin. She was very different from other children in the puritan villages. Pearl is said to be like this because she is a punishment from God for being the

Pearl was observing the children of the settlement when they began to circle around her forcing her to defend herself. These children were taught to treat pearl poorly for she was a product of sin. If the children had not known pearl’s history they would have treated her as one of their own; these children were born with pure hearts and good intentions but were later corrupted by society and were taught to hate sin and hurt the sinner.

“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

“Women belong in the kitchen.” “All women should be barefoot and pregnant.” “Women are strictly homemakers.” These are a few of the commonly used phrases regarding the female role in society that date back to the mid-seventeenth century. However, ardent supporters of gender equality have surfaced in almost every culture where this ideology is practiced. Nathaniel Hawthorne explores this inveterate societal conflict through his story The Scarlet Letter. The main character, Hester Prynne, is punished for committing adultery by being forced to wear a scarlet letter upon her bosom; Hawthorne created a story sympathetic to the female cause and demonstrated, through Hester, qualities of early feminism that later establish themselves during his