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that only through the righteous acts of our lives could redemption be obtained. This belief also encompassed the fact that appear...
novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...
die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...
In four pages this paper examines the importance of symbolism in this novel with the emphasis being upon the 'scarlet letter A' re...
In five pages this paper examines how original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...
of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...
In seven pages this paper presents a chapter by chapter synopsis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter....
to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....
Then Hester returns to Boston. Because she is strong, and because she loves Pearl and Dimmesdale, it seems unlikely that she is d...
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...
In four pages this creative writing sample features a letter in which Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale explains to Hester why he cannot ...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...
but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...
the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...
hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...
Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...
a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...
tearing away the band that identifies him as a minister, as it was his social office as minister that he was able to use to keep h...
he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...
of his academic learning in demonology and witchcraft. However, he begins to question this duty when Danforth begins to indiscrimi...
of enduring the terrifying experience of being set apart from it. Ironically, Hesters partner is sin is also present at the scaffo...
This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...
woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...