... , Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss" (136). Hester Prynne, who is the main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, is the subject of this quote. She is sent ahead by her husband in England to settle in the colonies. He fails to arrive and following a few years of ... memories from her infancy and years of girlish innocence. Hester's life is dramatically changed in the way she is treated by society. The general knowledge of her sin made her subject to public scrutiny every day. Sh...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, representing Puritan life in Boston of the 1640's, he revolves his story line around three primary characters who deal with publicly confessed sin and concealed sin. These characters consist of the book's protagonist, Hester Prynne; her lover, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale; and Roger Chillingworth, her long-lost husband. As the novel unfolds, the author reveals to the reader that Roger Chillingworth, however, is the worst sinner of the three. First of all, Chillingworth has sinned against the nature, and Hester Prynne more particularly....

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... might feel just by observing a particular person's body language and facial expressions. Such is the case with the youthful Pearl from the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn. As the daughter of the adulteress Hester Prynne, the townspeople view Pearl as a demon in an angel's clothing; as an imp who not ... hand in both her own, and gazed into her eyes with an earnestness that was seldom seen in her wild and capricious character". This dialogue does not seem to be the words of a demon, but a child who is utterly curious about what the letter on her mother's bosom means. One .....

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... repentance and honesty, although bitter and difficult, helps her to retain her sanity while Dimmesdale, mired in deception, loses his. Symbols Wild Rose Bush: Located just outside the prison door, it is the only sign of life near the prison, and has a single red blossom on it.The rose may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along ... ...to what he knew was deadly sin.? It is where Mistress Hibbens goes to meet the Black Man. Hester feels that the forest symbolizes themoral wilderness? through which she has wandered for seven years.Aren't you scared...

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