Abstract
The paper discusses the main characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter".

From the Paper
"The character of Arthur Dimmesdale, the adulteress minister in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" is one whose public personae and private life are contradictory. Although he is the father of Hester Prynne's illegitimate child, he never acknowledges this in public. Indeed, when the governor is determined to declare Hester unfit and remove her daughter Pearl from her care, it is Pearl's father who successfully changes the governor's mind. He does not acknowledge his own adultery and allows Hester to suffer..."

Tags:Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, characters

Abstract
This paper examines the long-range effects of their sin on Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne after committing adultery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter". The paper analyzes both characters as marked people.

From the Paper
"In "The Scarlet Letter" the long-range effects of adultery on Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne are remarkably similar even though Arthur keeps his sin hidden and Hester's has been revealed to the world. While Hester must wear the scarlet A for adultery, the scarlet token of infamy on her breast. Dimmesdale often covers his own breast with his hand as if wearing the A himself with all its mysterious horror, it is but the shadow of what he bears..."

Tags:Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, adultery, effects

Abstract
This paper looks at how Nathaniel Hawthorne was an Eighteenth-century American author who, through his works, explored the subject of human sin, punishment, and guilt. It examines how themes of pride, guilt, sin, punishment, and evil are evident in all of his works and how the wrongs committed by his ancestors play a particularly dominant force in Hawthorne's literary career, including in his most famous piece, "The Scarlet Letter."

From the Paper
"Regarding his workroom, Hawthorne once wrote, "This deserves to be called a haunted chamber, for thousands and thousands of visions have appeared to me in it" (Nathaniel Pp). He was one of the first American writers to explore the hidden motivations of his characters, such as in the "Scarlet Letter," a story describing the early victims of Puritan obsession with spiritual ferocity and the effect of guilt, anxiety and sorrow as its central theme (Nathaniel Pp). "The House of the Seven Gables" focused on a family that has inherited a curse by one of the victims of the Seventeenth Century Salem witchcraft trials (Nathaniel Pp). Hawthorne based this story on the legend of a curse that was pronounced upon his own family by a woman who was condemned to death during the Salem trials (Nathaniel Pp)."

Tags:scarlet, letter, young, goodman, brown

Abstract
This paper discusses the ideas expounded by Nathaniel Hawthorne, often thought of today as a reflection of Puritan values, although in Puritan times, he would have been recognized as a reformer at best and a heretic at worst. The paper discusses several of his works, "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of Seven Gables," "Young Goodman Brown,, "The Birthmark," and "Rappaccini's Daughter," claiming they show evidence of countless examples of a stretching of strict values. The paper contends that, by rejecting the ideals of the Puritan and the Victorian eras, Hawthorne acts as a soothsayer of the coming age of cyclical relaxation that can be seen, respectively, in the Flapper Era and in the 1960s.

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"Much of Hawthorne's message in his most well known work, The Scarlet Letter is one of feminine independence. The structure of Hester's society was such that she was challenged by her circumstances and even more challenged by the community in which she lived. Her social standing fell to that of a relative harlot when her very public fall from grace was revealed by her pregnancy, a pregnancy clearly begotten outside of her marriage bed. As has been clearly pointed out countless time the work is steeped in the biblical traditions of the Puritan Era and Hawthorne himself interweaves countless analogous meanings in his work."

Tags:rappaccini, seven, gables, scarlet, letter

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This paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne was a prolific writer of short stories, novels, and children's books, and how his works cover a variety of different subjects. It looks at how there are several themes that recur in his works and how one of these themes relates to sin and depravity. It shows how it is one of the major themes of his best known work, "The Scarlet Letter", and how the same theme also surfaces in a number of other works, including the short story, "Young Goodman Brown", and the short story, "The Minister's Black Veil." It explores how, in all of these works, Hawthorne communicates a similar view of human nature as it relates to sin and depravity and how he always shows sin and depravity as natural parts of human nature, parts that people must constantly battle.

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"As Hawthorne's best known work, it is fitting that the analysis begins with The Scarlet Letter. As well as being his best known work, The Scarlet Letter, is also a work with sin as the central theme. One source describes it as "an outstanding study of attitudes to sin and guilt, and of human psychology" (Kamm 204). Another source creates the link between the themes of sin and the study of human psychology by stating that the story is really about the character's personal battle between good and evil (Van Doren 10). This view of the story recognizes that the tendency toward sin is part of every person, where sin can also be described as evil. The good side of the person battles to control this desire to sin, but often the battle cannot be won. In the story, this is seen with the characters of Chillingworth, Dimmesdale, and Hester."

Tags:young, goodman, brown, scarlet, letter, minister, black, veil

Abstract
In this analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlett Letter," the concept of sin and puritanical society is examined. The reviewer focuses on the protagonist, Hester Prynne, and her development and eventual transcendence of her punishment for adultery. The paper also examines the role of Hester's daughter, Pearl, linking her symbolically with the concept of original sin. The paper concludes by contrasting Hester's strength with Reverend Dimmesdale's downfall.

From the Paper
"Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter addresses the issue of sin, responsibility, and even salvation in the Puritan society of North America. Sentenced to wear her sin of adultery in the form of the letter 'A' on the outside of her dress, Hester Prynne is forced to live with the ignominy of having borne a child out of wedlock. Hawthorne initially uses the scarlet letter as a symbol of Hester's sin, but the meaning of the letter evolves throughout the novel as Hester is eventually empowered and her secret lover is enfeebled by the sin they had both committed. The evolution of the letter shows the power of accepting punishment and persevering over the enervating capacity of trying to hide and escape sin."

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This paper discusses the basis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's approach to the novel "The Scarlet Letter". The paper analyzes and reflects the romantic and non-fiction qualities that are imparted thorough his first person narrative through Hester Prynne. It presents the reality of Hawthorne's narrative as is reflected through Woolf's interpretation of novel form, which allows an outward and changing perspective of the Puritanical laws that force Hester to wear the symbolic badge of adultery.

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"Literary Symbolism: Understanding the Premise of Reality and Romanticism within The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne In this literary study the symbolic `letter' in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne will be analyzed. By examining a passage from the novel, one can realize the sense of unreality in the romantic symbol worn by Hester Prynne; alongside the harsh reality of the crime of adultery that the symbol also represents. In this manner, the evolutionary changes that the symbol represent will examine the seemingly impossible `romanticized' punishment that Hester must suffer; and the cold rule of Puritanical law that imparts a grim reality upon those that break the societal religious norms of Hawthorne's novel. The evolution of the symbol of the scarlet letter changes dramatically throughout the novel's romanticized and non-fiction qualities."

Tags:hawthorne, literature, novel

Abstract
The paper discusses the book "The Scarlett Letter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The paper analyzes how Hester's resilience as a condemned woman in her town is also extremely heroic, as it is clear that she will never be free from the scarlet letter. The paper examines how Hester undergoes an extreme and unnecessary humiliation under strict patriarchal rules. The writer proposes that she is a hero, since she also must follow rules that place an extremely harsh punishment for women for the crime of adultery.

From the Paper
"The evolution of the symbol of the scarlet letter changes dramatically throughout the novel. Hawthorne makes initially makes it a symbol of the penalty of adultery, which Hester must wear in order to identify her crimetp the townspeople. In this manner, she appears victimized by her `badge', but is able to win their tolerance because her sincere respect for breaking marital tradition. In Chapter XIII, Hawthorne writes on how Hester felt about her badge: The effect of the symbol--or rather, of the position in respect to society that was indicated by it--on the mind of Hester Prynne herself, was powerful and peculiar (para.6). The `power' of the symbol is initially strong, and Hester bows to the town's laws. This reflects the societal view of the adulteress symbol, through Hester's initial response to the scarlet letter."

Tags:hawthorne, crime, law

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This paper provides an analysis of shame and forgiveness as two concepts central to Nathaniel Hawthorne's characterizations of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth in' The Scarlet Letter.' Additionally, the paper shows how shame and forgiveness impact the characters in terms of psychology and behavior.

From the Paper
"Set during the Puritan era Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel 'The Scarlet Letter' is a story that revolves around the concepts of shame and forgiveness. The novel revolves around three main characters: Hester Prynne a woman shamed by her public exposure of adultery. Hester's cuckolded husband Roger Chillingworth, whose shame stems from his inability to forgive Hester and her lover, and Arthur Dimmesdale a preacher whose shame stems from his adultery with Hester. This analysis will explore the psychological dimensions of shame and..."

Tags:infidelity, compassion, redemption, Hawthorne, vengeance, Divine, Puritans, morality, transgression, God

Abstract
Elaborates on the question of sin in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter". The author reveals that what is viewed as sinful throughout the book has underlying connotations and meanings. The author discusses this with reference to the two main characters of the book.

From the Paper
"Hawthorne seems to intimate throughout the Scarlet Letter that what Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale shared wasn't quite as sinful as is supposed. Many passages in the book tend to substantiate this premise. In short, I wish to reiterate some of these passages and rationalize using them in support of this paper's overall theme."

Tags:adultery, hawthorne, prynne, dimmesdale, hester, chillingworth, love