... , but the one that stood out the most was isolation. Many characters throughout the story, such as Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale experienced isolation, the consequence of sin. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the theme with the greatest amount of emotional meaning and importance is isolation. Hester Prynne, the scarlet letter bearer who committed adultery, is the protagonist that experiences isolation the most throughout the novel. As the consequence of ... from Pearl emotionally because Hester is unable to tell her daughter the real meaning of the scarlet letter. Hester tell...

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... public, she experiences inward guilt comparable to Dimmesdale. The guilt is illustrated in the quote; "She never battled with the public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage- (127). At first, Hester only has penance because she has yet to be sorry for what she has done. She illustrates this in the making of her scarlet letter, " fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her ... town is Hester's public shunning. After the shunning, Chillingworth visits Hester in jail and requests the father's name. Chillingworth vows to make the father pay for his sins. He finds the ...

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... 1692. On the other hand, The Scarlet Letter was an old-fashion, fiction novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both of these books consist of abundant similarities such as, they deal with the guilt of committing adultery, both focused on the Puritan culture, and the characters were made outcasts of society. "Men do not tell secrets because these are the men that deceive themselves". (Hawthorne 130) This quote refers to ... on a true story, while the other is fiction. The Scarlet Letter is a fiction story of Hester and the scarlet A; there was no such thing as it. Yet, The Crucible was a ...

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... about her husband, Roger Chillingworth. She rips off her scarlet letter and lets her hair down, which is looked down upon in the time where the story takes place. Hester shows courage early on in the novel when she first wears the Scarlet letter, "A", and stands tall on the scaffold in front of all the townspeople. She continues to work for the people by making dresses and clothes for them even ... that they would no longer respect him and he would be very upset and most likely lose his status among them. The quote "I will not speak" on pg 47 is where Hester refuses to tell the official...

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... of this novel, Hawthorne chooses to begin his novel with a prison. This is an appropriate symbol for the punishment that the protagonists will suffer. The Scarlet Letter deals with the adultery sin of Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the revenge of Roger Chillingsworth, and the towns people's attitude toward Hester and her daughter Pearl. Puritans society believed that sinners should be punished for their sin forever; death ... himself and Hester would have had a lot less worse sin. The points that Hawthorne makes are similar to the Puritan texts. In his sermon, Jonathan Ed...

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... again, and we will stand all three together!" (pg140). After Dimmesdale gives his powerful speech, the author says "By yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of a man's own righteousness" (pg 177). In this quote the author is telling how Dimmesdale after seven years has become able to declare his love ... for Hester. The excerpt explains how utterly useless it is for a man to try and be self ... taken a large physical toll on his body as well as his mind. When the townsfolk claim to have seen a scarlet lette...

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... him and seek revenge on this person. When he makes this decision he does not realize he is sacrificing his own sanity and health to find the adulterer. Before Roger makes the decision he is best by this quote, "Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with ... transgressions. Roger Chillingworth is transformed from an intelligent man with a dream to a man who would now be unstable. " In whom he hoped to find embodied the warmth and cheerfulness of home," (113;ch.10) this quote shows ...

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