A letter "the letter A "but freshly green instead of scarlet.""... After he has finished his confession Dimmesdale rips open his shirt to reveal the letter "A- on his chest. ... The last supernatural manifestation of the scarlet letter is when Dimmesdale goes atop the scaffold at night and gives his false confession. ... Dimmesdale sees it as a sign from God that his confession was not enough. ... " the scarlet letter has a purpose and a goal, thus, Hawthorne's meanings may be endless, but they are not open-ended....

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel that is full of symbols and imagery. ... "The scarlet letter had the effect of a cross on a nun's bosom." (179). ... Though the scarlet letter had changed its meaning, it could not change her heart. ... Hester later rips off the scarlet letter 'A' and is seen in another light. ... The scaffolding is where all confessions of sin happen. ...

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Protagonist role in The Scarlet Letter " But (Hester) is not the protagonist, the chief actor, and the tragedy of The Scarlet Letter is not her tragedy but Arthur's. ... His public confession is one of the noblest climaxes of tragic literature." The argument over the protagonist role in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne runs undeniably deep. ... He waited with open arms and Hester, the protagonist, initiated the building of the infrastructure of The Scarlet Letter. ... All qualities of a protagonist, who initiates the action in a story and allows for forward movement, As Hest...

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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne similarly develops the concepts of guilt and the freedom gained by confession. ... Hester also reveals that this embrace covered her scarlet letter, but that " wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm,"with a glance that would not be abashed - (46). While she could have "hid- from the full force of this scaffold penance, her dignity holds her open to the consequences of her actions. ... According to The Scarlet Letter: A Student Casebook , however, " The Minister's Vigil&#x...

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He does this by using primary characters in the novels The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and many short stories who have a problem, like an inner secret, or who have some kind of guilt, and shows how society looks upon these people. ... They were also very strict in their obedience to laws, which will later be addressed in reference to society's treatment of the young woman in the novel, The Scarlet Letter. ... In The Scarlet Letter, a young woman has committed adultery. ... He made them the villains in The Scarlet Letter and created in Hester a somewhat Transcenden...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter, Pearl, is a symbol of sin and adultery in the sense that she leads Dimmsdale and Hester to their confession and the acceptance of their sins. ... She is also the only living symbol of the scarlet letter "A". ... It is commonly agreed that the colors are used extensive in The Scarlet Letter as symbols. ... The most famous symbol is of course the scarlet letter itself. ... In conclusion, one of the most important reasons that The Scarlet Letter is so well known is the way Hawthorne leaves the novel open to be interpreted several different ways b...

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This was surely the case in Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, a novel set in Puritan times that describes what guilt and sin truly are. ... Hester's guilt was open for all of the townspeople to see, while Dimmesdale's guilt was hidden from the public eye. ... Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast (72). ... they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin, fo...

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The scarlet letter is a symbol which demonstrates that even when sins are committed, they can be confessed and forgiven. ... 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 was wrong. ... The scarlet letter had taken over her appearance."... Dimsdale feels a tremendous inflow of energy from this movement toward the release of confession.... Out in the open Hester and Pearl could go on and live life without anybody bothering them anymore. ...

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