... 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 his absence, Hester falls into an adulterous relationship and conceives ... a child. This is a turning point in her life. The effects of her sin perpetuate throughout her life and in all aspects ... would be considered scandalous for a Puritan woman living in New England. "Ou...

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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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THE BIGGEST SINNER In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, sin was a very evident factor throughout the novel. It heavily affected the lives of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth, the three main characters. Though they were all sinners, Dimmesdale's sins stood out more boldly than that of Hester's or Chillingworth's, for his first sin with Hester lead him to commit other sins and in the end that made Dimmesdale the ... alone. By not speaking up, Dimmesdale is committing another sin in addition to adultery. He is committing the sin of untruthfulness and cowardice. Dimmesdale acknowled...

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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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