Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a romantic work of historical fiction published in 1860, explores the costs of duplicity and disguised guilt among the lives of individuals who struggle to embrace their self-awareness within a stern society. Set in the mid-seventeenth century in Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, the protagonist Hester Prynne bears the scarlet letter upon her chest. The letter A serves as an unceasing public shaming for her adulterous actions with the highly regarded Reverend
1. I empathize with Hester Prynne in the book of The Scarlet Letter. She survives through guilt, hopelessness, and loneliness throughout the novel. Like the letter A that is sown on her bossom, Hester is the symbol of sin in the Puritan society she lives in. Guilt is something everyone can relate to. It is something we all hate but is, sadly, inevitable. As Nathaniel Hawthorne says, “...guilt...once made into the human soul is never, in this mortal state, repaired” (75). Guilt is a never
Have. The light and the darkness, the good and the evil, symbolized perfectly in the novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Scarlet Letter.” In The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne uses a lot of symbolism to make points about the world. Color and Light Images in The Scarlet Letter, an article written by Hyatt Howe Waggoner, shows that red is the most allusive symbolic color, sunlight means truth, goodness and revelation, whereas false light means evil, but what the article does not describe is the importance
Although some people want to appear perfect, they can never hide their true nature as human beings. However, is it possible for an evil sin to create beauty in its finest conceivable form? This product was created in The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne’s character Pearl is a free spirited angel with the purpose and duty of serving as a savior for her parents Hester and Dimmesdale. Her intelligent, restless, and holy actions make her angel-like identity gleam throughout the
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a virus spreads throughout this gothic romance that malevolently affects both protagonists and antagonists, known as moral corruption. This reoccurring theme is most prevalent in namely the three main characters; Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale. Hawthorne creates a dystopia in the small Massachusetts Bay Colony of Salem during the 17th century, where the people condemn and damn such individuals who go against the grain so to speak
The Fallen Angel’s Venial Sins Margarita Georgieva writes about Nathaniel Hawthorne’s sin based fin in “The Burden of Secret Sin: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fiction.” She comments on Hawthorne's writing which includes The Scarlet Letter. In Hawthorne's novel Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth repeatedly transgress the religious laws of the Puritan society they follow. Hester's affair with Arthur Dimmesdale causes Roger, the husband whom she thought dead, to seek vengeance since