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Throughout all of American Literature, authors have used different techniques to relay a message to the reader, one way being by depicting how the community’s influence on the protagonist shapes the protagonists’ development. In The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, authors Hawthorne and Miller, respectively, use the social norms in Puritan society to express a common theme by portraying the positive and negative moral changes in characters. In Puritan society, individuals believed they were carrying

an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law. Throughout the novel, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the theme of guilt is shown in many of the characters throughout the novel. Guilt was particularly shown in Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth and its presence in their souls lead to their evolution or demise. Throughout her story Hester evolves from her guilt stricken life into an independent woman. The offense committed by Hester was the

Old Mr. Prynne began his new life in Boston as the Physician Roger Chillingworth. When chillingworth arrived, the town elected him intelligent; he always seemed pleasant but very strange. Through these seven years he remained in Massachusetts. His character changed drastically from pleasant to really evil that even those individuals who don't know him personally seemed to see the devilishness nature in chillingworth trying to break free. Chillingworth stands with Hester Prynne in the prison

and revolve around the harsh law enforcement of the time. However, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of a woman as she deals with her heavy Puritan punishment, whereas The Crucible follows hysteria as it spreads throughout an entire town. Hester Prynne, the main character of The Scarlet Letter, was found guilty for adultery and sentenced to wear a red letter A on her chest to inform people of her sin. Similarly, The Crucible’s main character John Proctor admits to having committed lechery and is

relationship with God was based upon theocracy, predestination, the Bible, and sin. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne incorporates the Puritans’ strict code into a fictional story, detailing the trials and tribulations of a Puritan woman named Hester Prynne.

colonial Puritans of Boston in his book, The Scarlet Letter, and what their actions and reactions would have been to Hester Prynne committing adultery, and the events thereafter, which also conform to what we know about the Puritans and how they were fastidiously against sex in any form.      Not hardly. In The Scarlet Letter, we see Hester Prynne, who is put on trial for committing adultery (from which came a baby girl, Pearl) after her husband had been missing for

The Scarlet Letter begins when a man working in the Salem tax on goods coming into country House makes discovery an in a highly detailed form ornament needlework bright red A among printed materials having effect the story of a mid-17th hundred adulteress. The day before they idea to board the ship, Dimmesdale impulsively stands with Hester and Pearl on the frame structure and publicly makes statement about oneself of that he is Hesters lover and pearls father. The acting of the story begins in one

The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a book wrote by Nathaniel Hawthrone, he is an anti-transcendentalist writer, this book is about Hester Pyrnne the protagonist of this story and her family. This book takes place in a puritan town in the 1600s the town revolves around punishment , Hawthorne uses a lot of symbols to contribute to the overall theme of secret sin. Hester has one of the symbols on her bosom, that contributes to secret sin. She wears the scarlet letter because of the sin she has

realistic approach to realistic sins and creates a tale of redemption for young Hester Prynne. Responsive readers take away many messages and themes from the book, but none are as prominent as the warning Hawthorne gives against hypocrisy. The beginning of The Scarlet Letter offers us a young woman, a small child, and a crowd of scornful people. The scene is uncomfortable and many townspeople gossip about Hester Prynne and her

Historicism Essay The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an 1850’s novel of historical fiction that tells the story of Hester Prynne and the decision she made to commit adultery leading to the birth of her daughter, Pearl, and the social shame she faced by being branded with the letter ‘A’. Sin should be a private affair, not a public spectacle. Hester Prynne, the main character of this story and the committer of adultery, is faced with public shame due to her sin of sleeping with a man that