MLK Letter Essay

Our community has suffered a great loss, with the passing of our beloved Arthur Dimmesdale. We join here today to remember the man we all respected. He was a great man that taught us all a lot and deserves to be remembered. There is little to be known about the childhood of Arthur Dimmesdale. We know he was a scholar at Oxford University. He somehow was brought to us and became a member of our congregation in Boston. Arthur was a respected yet secretive man. He committed a sin which brought pain

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, is set in Puritan times, following the lives of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth after Hester’s crime of adultery. While Hester Prynne successfully processes her emotions and refuses to cave in on herself, the men in the novel resort to revenge. When one devotes themselves to vengeance, they become consumed by it. Reverend Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth both spend the novel taking revenge on themselves and someone else

After experiencing heartbreak, rejection, and malice from a single human being, revenge begins to eat away at your soul until none of it is left, and your heart is completely black. Throughout The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, we are able to experience Roger Chillingworth’s complete transformation into Satan. The occurrence of his transformation was because Hester Prynne, his wife, cheated on him, and had a child with another man. In the Puritan society, during the seventeenth century,

The book “The Scarlet letter” is a story that is based on the theme of adultery and the consequences of one's actions. It starts off by introducing the setting of the story then with the characters gradually as you get deeper into the book. It is based on the scarlet letter ‘A’ it means to be connected to the sin behind the ‘A’ during the time being shamed and being the odd one out in the center of attention. The main character of the story is Hester Prynne, a woman who represents adultery and the

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne is abundant with symbols. Hawthorne’s use of symbols was used to enlarge literal meaning and to make you think of the biggest symbol that the whole story was featured around, the red letter ‘A’. The Scarlet Letter is based back in seventeenth century Boston, which at the time was a purely Puritan society. Hester Prynne, a married woman, committed adultery while she assumed that her husband was lost at sea. Her consequence was that she had to wear a red

“Reality is easy. Deception that's the hard the hard work” -Lauryn Hill. In the novel the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses literary elements such as symbolism, irony and conflict to show deception and secrecy can lead to self-destruction. This relates to the Scarlet Letter because in the book the protagonist character commits an act of sin that was more than just frowned upon. Not only does the community gossip and turn their cheek to the sinner but a sickness comes along from keeping a secret

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne there are many symbols and motifs. A motif is a recurring image that helps develop the theme. The first motif is civilization versus wilderness. In the book the puritan town is civilization, and it is a place where everything anyone does is on display. There is no hiding from your sins and everyone knows about them, you can and will be quickly punished. In the wilderness there is only natural authority and society's rules do not apply. The next motif in

“The Scarlet Letter”. He emphasizes puritanic views in his writing as well as romanticism through four different characters: Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl. The basis of the story was that Hester Prynne was being punished and shamed for her sin of adultery with Arthur Dimmesdale in proof of the baby girl named Pearl, leaving Hester to overtake this ever longing shame for seven years. The relationship between all of these characters of “The Scarlet Letter” exhibits the

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. Hypocrisy—the dishonest action of claiming to possess standards when one does not conform to it in actuality— is a deplorable recurring trait that has an unfortunate toll in the community. After Hester Prynne commits adultery with Reverend Dimmesdale, Hester becomes pregnant and Dimmesdale

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne builds Pearl as a character of duality, both in her personality and in the role she plays in Hester’s life. Pearl’s conflicting personality components of innocence and defiance both derive from her isolation from society, which transpired because of her mother’s sin. Pearl represents the conflict between everything good and dark, which reflects in the role she plays in Hester’s life, as the physical embodiment of the “A.” While Pearl serves as a savior