... . The Romantic literary movement was at its height, but Hawthorne and Poe strayed from typical Romantic writings with their darker tales concerning sin and morality (www.trackstar.com). The following pages will examine the way sin affected the Puritan Community in the Scarlet Letter. First, they explain the ... back to as a city fortified and strong in its certainties while [ ] uncertain and weak (Swisher 57). "The Puritan age and its sure morality was an obsession in his life,"" said Canby. In the Puritan Community, man was viewed as innately corrupt and punishment was used as a warnin...

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... Letter. Hawthorne displays the unending war between social expediency and moral righteousness in the mind of the main character, Hester. Regardless of Hester's conscious morality, she is playing out her subconscious desires, which is distinctly Freudian. Hawthorne and Freud ironically have harmonizing views on people's actions and state of ... the subconscious urges of the community, while he uses Dimmesdale as a representative of the entire Puritan community. He effectively uses Hester as a study of morality with contrast to Dimmesdale as well. Hester's sin was born out of her love for D...

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... Letter. Hawthorne displays the unending war between social expediency and moral righteousness in the mind of the main character, Hester. Regardless of Hester's conscious morality, she is playing out her subconscious desires, which is distinctly Freudian. Hawthorne and Freud ironically have harmonizing views on people's actions and state of ... the subconscious urges of the community, while he uses Dimmesdale as a representative of the entire Puritan community. He effectively uses Hester as a study of morality with contrast to Dimmesdale as well. Hester's sin was born out of her love for D...

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... solely for her child. These conflicts concerned Hester because they all involved her in some way. They affected the community because adultery was a sin due to their religion; and because law was attached, at the head, to religion. They had set the laws and Hester had broken one. All this and yet Hawthorne is not done, his manipulation of the points ... tone express the impact of Hester's crime on herself, her family and the townspeople. Her reputation as a deviant had marked her for life and made the Puritans worry about themselves, morality and their own social values. Hawthorne's use...

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... not have the audacity to reveal his sin. His despair wore him down, because he had violated the dignity of his position, and had broken a law that his education had made more prominent than any other law in his soul. Yet he had neither moral courage nor moral honesty, with all his impressive piety to come forth and assert their sins and ... 's plan to escape from Boston. " Dimmesdale, unlike Hester Prynne, did sin blindly through passion, committing an act which he felt to be wrong. And because he sinned against his own morality, he felt unable to grasp the freedom which Hester urged."(C...

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... us, and it would be very difficult to stamp it out of our society and culture. That, however, is a feat the Puritans tried to accomplish. They are "blamed" for "overrating morality" to the point in which they completely "suppressed art" (Hoffman 53). But art is something that even the firmest controls cannot always contain. Hester Prynne, heroine of the Nathaniel Hawthorne ... but tragic. Hester Prynne, having been sent to New England ahead of her husband, was condemned by her society because of her attempts to break free of the rigid Puritanical law-system by finding sexual pleasure wi...

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... thought they cleansed the town, and therefore only leaving a "pure" society. They thought that if they treated her so horrible that no one would ever even think of breaking the law again. As the story begins the townspeople do not see her as a necessity but as a nuisance to get rid of. They do not realize the need for which they have ... was that they only saw Hester for the crime she had committed but not as the woman she was. When the community banished Hester Prynne they succeeded in upholding their morality but lost an individual. The community is nothing more than a collection of i...

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