The Scarlet Letter

Section 1: Section 1 of the Scarlet Letter covered chapters 1-3. These chapters set the premise for the story. “Speak out the name!That, and thy repentance, may avail to take the scarlet letter off thy breast.’ ‘Never!’ replied Hester Prynne, looking, not at Mr. Wilson, but into the deep and troubled eyes of the younger clergyman.” (58) This peaked my interest as I too wanted to know who the father is. I also thought it was wrong the way they tried to bribe her into telling who the father is. I chose

represent something else. For example the letter A in The Scarlet Letter stands for adultery. Symbols are usually used to deliver a specific message. In the book the scarlet letter A is used to convey a message and throughout the book the meaning changes. The scarlet letter A in the beginning stands for adultery, during the middle of the book it changes and becomes a symbol for able, and finally in the end it becomes approachable. In The Scarlet Letter Hester commits a sin and her punishment was

Scarlet Letter Symbolic Theme Essay The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was written amidst the 1800’s. Hawthorne was a famous American author during that time frame. He is a relative to a judge from the Salem Witch Trials, which was his Great-Great Grandfather John Hathorne. Hathorne was the only judge who did not express atonement for his crimes, which led people to dislike all the Hathorne’s. This sparked Nathaniel Hawthorne's interest in the Puritan times, which resulted in the Scarlet

David Grace Ms. Barich ELA 12 Sec. 01 17 October 2017 Isolation in The Scarlet Letter There has been a constant dispute over whether people should be governed by determinism or free will. Determinism is the idea that our actions and fate are predetermined and every occurrence can be explained or has a reason for happening; free will, in contrast, is the idea that we have the ability to act independently of external restraints. In the 17th century, Puritan society arose in New England as one that

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays a Puritan society plagued with guilt and corruption. Throughout the novel, characters are punished for their hypocrisy and Hawthorne shows the flaws in Puritan societies. Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Robert Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter become so consumed in their ambitions that they are unable to discern the hypocrisy of their beliefs, and as a result, Hawthorne critics and punishes these members of the Puritan society. Hester carries

“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

Adultery in Easy A Based of a Novel “The Scarlet Letter” Saul Ibarra English IV South Texas Business Education Technology Academy In the movie Easy A a cinematic film directed by Will Gluck is a comedy about a girl in high school whose social life completely changes because of a small lie that dominates her image. This rumor connects to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the scarlet letter due to the fact that themes are drawn such as sin and redemption. Emma stone plays the protagonist Olive

century. In his classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne effectively utilizes symbolism to display the evolution of several characters throughout the book, particularly the character of Hester Prynne. Within the novel, Hawthorne develops the significant symbol of the scarlet letter A to portray the strict culture of the 17th century New England society and to further demonstrate the Puritan’s reaction to sin. Hawthorne portrays the scarlet letter A as a complex and ambiguous symbol

The Scarlet Letter Reading Journal Chapters 2-3 Hester Prynne is first introduced by an angry crowd of people calling for her death. It seems as Hester has done something terribly wrong, something unforgivable. It gave me mixed thoughts, because I had no idea what she had done that made these people so furious, she could be innocent for all I, or any of the characters, know. Hester’s babe was compared/contrasted to the Scarlet Letter on herself, showing that her babe, not the Letter, was the true

to see. This is how Hester Prynne felt in The Scarlet Letter. She was publically humiliated for her sin after bearing a child, while her fellow adulterer, Arthur Dimmesdale, concealed it and was instead