... Morality and what is ethical also plays a necessary part to the development in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. "The mind's eye, or the imagination, is the instrument of moral insight." Imagination is what creates moralistic intuition in the writer (Jacobsen pg. 34-33). Another example that may support morality in the production of The Scarlet Letter, as a historical document, is the study Yvor Winters claims that "Puritans had allegorical morality," as ... a person's personality. Richard J. Jacobsen affirms "Sin in the artist makes him more aware of sin and guilt in others, and hence open...

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... well as her largest asset. When referring to Hester in the opening scaffold scene, Hawthorne remarks that "never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison" (39). The way Hawthorne chose to illustrate his character enables the reader to discern the author's attitude toward his subject. To Hawthorne, the A is a symbol used to develop Hester's character. It means "adulteress ... flames and passion of adultery. But through other likely answers to the riddle of Hester's A, such as atonement, ability, acceptance, a...

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... high did she fly?"38 This clearly illustrates how instinctive and deeply entrenched was this desire for the supernatural. Exasperated, Reverend Parris calls on Rev. Hale, who is an expert in the "demonic arts,"39 to evaluate the situation. The fact that they even have an expert of the demonic arts speaks volumes about their superstitious way of life. When Mr. Hale arrives, it is quickly ... determined that "Tituba knows how to speak to the dead,"40 and that more went on than simply dancing. From ... example of hysterical paranoia from the Puritan era is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel ...

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