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... letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes!- these were her realities,- all else had vanished!" (Pg 39) Hester has no reason here to clutch the child fiercely or to question the reality of the events occurring if the ordeal is not affecting her on the inside. After ... ...
... Indian sorcerers, Pearl is at home among its creatures. The forest became a playmate of the lonely infant and put on the kindest of moods to welcome her (Bloom 23, 25, 39-40). Besides being repeatedly compared to a bird, Pearl is associated with an April breeze and a brook, and likened to a nymph-child, or an elf like fairy. These vivid natural images ... ...
... upon her mother's bosom. In making Pearl's garment Hester cleverly makes the child's A in green threading instead of the harsh scarlet color that she herself bears upon her bosom (Hoffman 39). But throughout the continues questions Hester never denied the significance of the scarlet A she wears. With in a sense, Pearl wants her mother to live up to her sin, and she ... ...
... a person's personality. Richard J. Jacobsen affirms "Sin in the artist makes him more aware of sin and guilt in others, and hence opens and expands his view of life" (Jacobsen pg. 39). Sin could quite be one of the useful tools Nathaniel Hawthorne used to create such associable characters. As Gorman puts it, "The Scarlet Letter was a shadow of his own spiritual ... ...
... by finding sexual pleasure with a mystery man from the village. Ironically, it was this same "misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped" that allowed her individuality to persist (Hawthorne 39). The same community that tried to punish her for inconformity provided her with a vehicle that enabled her to be an outright nonconformist. And by making the commemorating mark of her ... ...
... symbol that I looked for throughout the novel was step, or steps. I found it 13 times. These are the chapters, pages and context in which I found the word step: Chapter 2, page 39: " she ascended a flight of wooden steps- Chapter 4, page 51: " from the moment when we came down the old church-steps together, a married pair, I might have beheld the bale-fire of ... ...
... ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence, too." (238-39) The prevailing message of this novel is that people change over time due to their situations, the people around them, and the things they have experienced....
