... experienced public humiliation and grief. Although sharing these occurrences, John Proctor and Hester Prynne demonstrate their different outlooks on life. Concerning John and Hester's similarities, they are both married. While being joined in marriage with their spouses, both individuals committed adultery. Being in a religious, puritan community, this behavior is not acceptable. John and Hester are strong spirited, fee thinkers. These selected characters are the protagonist ... a daughter whom she loves, but she also helps her community. Hester cares for the poor by bringing them food ...

• Word Count: 630
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel of conflict between a woman in love and the stern Puritan community in which she resides. Hawthorne illustrates that a woman who follows her heartbreaks the laws of the community. Hester Prynne leaves that community to reside in isolation with her illegitimate child. Hester always maintains her love, not for her husband, but the sinful love she has for her ... it as a badge of honor. It represents her individuality in a society of structured, conformist living. Hester Prynne, because she wears a sign of shame on the surface of her clothing, canno...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... at the role model they have, in their minds Reverend Dimmesdale is a saint and he is their guide or path to heaven. Hester Prynne follows the puritan idea on idleness. In chapter 5 page 56, Hawthorne describes Hester making richly embroidered clothing at all hours for public officials. "Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves"- "-there was a frequent and characteristic ... demand for such labor as Hester Prynne could supply." In addition she kept herself busy by caring for the sick and dying such as Governor ... him. "I have been watching at a death-bed," a...

• Word Count: 745
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , showing that it will always be a part of him and also when he talks to Hester about how they will not stay together in the future. Hester We find out that Hester Prynne has committed the sin of adultery and is condemned to wear the scarlet letter A on her clothing. She if forced to stand on the scaffold while everyone stares at her with shame ... not help believing, that it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts. She was terror-stricken by the revelations that were thus made" Hester realizes that others in the Puritan society most likely have committed terri...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... commits is one that is based on the laws and morals of the Puritan society. Although adultery, in the eyes of Puritans, is seen as a horrendous crime, if it is out of love it contradicts the actual crime, which is to go against one's spouse as an act of spite. Hester follows her heart and so is therefore innocent of all sins ... -so much power to do and power to sympathize -that many people refused to interpret the scarlet "A" by its original signification. They said that it meant "Able"; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength" (p.145). Finally her views on her actions are...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School