... , standards, or habits with respect to right or wrong in conduct," ("moral"). Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes characterization techniques of morality throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter. The qualities that Hester Prynne possesses shape her as a character. Hawthorne represents Hester Prynne as having moral flaws, but in the end she ... Viewpoints, "The character story emerges when some part of a character's role in life becomes unbearable." (53). This is apparent in The Scarlet Letter because Hester's life becomes unbearable through her trials as a sinner in the Puritan society. Although...

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... judge, Hathorne, who presided over the Salem witchcraft trials in 1962. Puritan society had significant influence on Hawthorne's writing, especially in The Scarlet Letter: "Puritan society claimed to have based itself on the highest principal of moral idealism and filled with christian virtues of love and ... Hawthorne presents Puritan society as hypocritical. Hawthorne describes the inhumanity and intolerance that the Puritan society had set in date, especially for sinners. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, a sinner, is mistreated by the Puritan society. Hester Prynne is publicly hu...

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... and has a beautiful child whom she hopes will grow up to marry for love and not follow the path she did. Pearl is the living scarlet letter that was created by sin and to her, the letter worn around Hester's neck, is Pearl's way of saying that what Hester did ... . She was a beautiful woman who was strong and the other women crowded around her because of jealousy. In that remarkable forest scene in The Scarlet Letter, the long repressed/suppressed sexuality of Hester is suddenly exposed when she releases her hair. The reader immediately recognizes that the complex art of ... began to fa...

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