... Huckleberry Finn and Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, show that one person with his or her own views may contradict a society. Huck's and Hester's moral struggles lead to a fight between conscience vs. civilization. It's ironic, but conscience in these cases is right, and civilization is evil and cruel. ... novel, Huck overcomes the bigotry that society preached. He goes against society's rules and tries to help his friend, Jim, a runaway slave. Moral struggles come into play several times as they"re making their voyage down the river. The river symbolizes serenity and the beauty...

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... of the scarlet letter and that she emerged triumphant. Overcoming the scarlet letter was Hawthorne's way of displaying that women may have not been physically stronger, but women's heart, spirit, courage, and character could be victorious in battles where physical strength could never triumph. The shame Hester first felt when she wore the scarlet letter was almost unbearable. Instead of lying ... thought of any woman being able to become a better person under such conditions, but Hawthorne exhibited that it was possible and that women featured an unmeasured strength. Hester's heart, spi...

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... intimate romance between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. The various relationships and feelings behind these relationships are intense, one can never really be quite sure of the true emotion. The moral of the story is to be true, yet each character is a hypocrite in some form. Hester Prynne came to Boston when she married to wait for her husband while he ... , Arthur Dimmesdale was at the peak of his hypocrisy throughout the story, telling her that "What can thy silence do for him, except tempt him ..who perchance hath not the courage to grasp it for himself?-#. Staring out at the c...

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Societies have long established in their moral codes that the price of hidden guilt is tremendous, and therefore wrongdoings should be confessed in order to receive forgiveness. Christian ideology is a prime example of such teaching. The Bible ... finally ends his own torment through public confession In the Bible, King David, a man of high position, angered God when he committed adultery. In Psalm 32:1-5, he struggles with the moral dilemma of whether to confess or to keep silent. He begins by praising those who have hidden nothing from God, and speaking of how great it would be to be ... ...

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... other side, Dimmesdale stayed away and was not punished at all. But, as he began to change he felt something should be done. Dimmesdale's final disclosure of sins displayed his moral strength because during the beginning of the book, he lives his life as a coward, never admitting his sin, leaving all the blame and embarrassment to Hester. His character evolved drastically ... of all that was pure. However, he lied to everyone around him, pretending to be something he wasn't. When Hester was publicly ostracized for her sin, Dimmesdale never had the courage to stand up with her and share ...

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... mission of divine and mysterious truth should be confided to a woman stained with sin. (Hawthorne 185) As we see from this passage, no matter what Hester has done, despite her courage and her independent spirit, despite the fact that she ultimately claims the dreaded "A" as her own badge of honor, she is still seen as the evil woman. Also, despite Hawthorne ... doomed for a life full of sadness and misery. Rather than celebrating the courageousness and independence of Hester Prynne, it serves as a reminder that women seem to be bound by a higher moral code than men are....

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... , to emphasize different aspects of the work. In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaniel Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. Hence, their different characters contribute vitally to the plot of the novel. Arthur Dimmesdale, the Reverent and the protagonists" lover, was not a very ... the pain in his heart and also got to kiss his daughter Pearl whom he never got to kiss, hence, at the end of the novel, the latter character musters courage and loses...

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... sought out by everyone, tried and duplicated by many, and yet succeeded by much less. The puritans believed that the way to achieve this was through strict practicing of their moral beliefs. This included not only following it themselves, but also making sure that others in their community were living by the same morals and standards. We as a society today have ... sense of reality. In a world that is against most of those things pretty strongly it is hard to accept such radicals. The hippies on the other hard had a lot of courage to defend what they believed in so strongly. Just like w...

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... . Hester loses her childhood dreams of what life should be. The quote from the book that best describes the song and Hester is, "But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed, from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman. She ... had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness . The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,""stern and wild o...

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