... wonderful piece of literary work. It is a wonderful reading experience that held on to my interest through unanticipated events. The variety of characters in this novel helped construct a setting that would give a creepy feeling to any reader. The Scarlet Letter is wonderfully written and does not require any changes and meets all expectations by providing an incomparable window into the life of a Puritan ... sinner. Not enjoying this novel would be a sin in itself, perhaps requiring The Scarlet Letter for punishment. The unforeseen plots and twists in this novel kept reader's ... and c...

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• Grade Level: High School

... are many different themes portrayed throughout the book. Hawthorne develops these themes through many different symbols in his novel. Besides the obvious symbol being the Scarlet Letter, you can find many other examples of Hawthorne's use of color. The colors that he repeats in the book besides red are gray, gold, green, and black. Gray represents the strict Puritan society. Gold represents passion. Green ... is shown as life, hope, and youth. Last, black, is shown as a symbol for evil and sin. The beginning of the novel starts off in a gray setting. Hester is being held in prison with ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is a play. While The Scarlet Letter deals mainly with the sin of adultery, The Crucible deals mainly with false accusations of witchcraft. Both have obvious similarities like the setting and the crime, however, one of the greateset similarities between the two is the loyalty of the Puritan people to their appointed officials, the public supported them greatly, because in their theocratic society, the eyes ... of the officials were those of God. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne's punishment was assigned to her by a highly ... ). Even though many may have thought that the officials' p...

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• Grade Level: High School

... as a book. Although Hawthorne wrote many novels, none of them were as successful as "The Scarlet Letter". It was set in Puritan Boston in the early years of a Massachusetts Bay Colony. Many things can affect what happens in a story and one of those things is setting. In the Scarlet Letter, there is the symbolic significance of various settings: the scaffold; the forest, which ironically becomes an oasis ... of freedom for Hester and Dimmesdale, though everyone else views it as the devil's territory. The scaffold in the town center symbolizes the harsh judgments in Puritan society. Purit...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Arthur Dimmesdale commit adultery. Hester's sin becomes publicly acknowledged when she has a child; she is forced face humiliation by standing on a scaffold in the center of town and must wear a scarlet letter "A" on her chest. At the same time, Dimmesdale suffers in secrecy and his guilt causes him endless misery. As the novel progresses, Hawthorne makes it clear that Dimmesdale's deceit is a much more ... . To Pearl, Dimmesdale promises that he "shall, indeed, stand with thy mother and thee one day" (137) but that this will not be the next day. The scaffold is the setting of a realizat...

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• Grade Level: High School

... works of literature, The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter have very similar qualities, including setting, difference, and general aspects of the characters, while there are also specific parallels between characters, such as Abigail and Hester, and Parris and Dimmesdale. The settings in both The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are similar in many ways. The Scarlet Letter takes place around the 1640s, as The ... Crucible occurs in 1692. The time period is very important in both pieces, because it is a time of religious intolerance and a conservative attitude pervades in New England, where...

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... throughout this novel, and on his journey to reconciliation we see how the world can break a man. Dimmesdale is hiding in fear as he travels his path to reconciliation. Throughout the novel Dimmesdale becomes increasingly hurt, as he bears his own scarlet letter within his heart. Dimmesdales fear is apparent when he is walking out of the forest and he runs into a young ... held his Geneva cloak before his face"(pg 150). Dimmesdale sinks away into his cloak for he does not want anyone to see his sinful face. The procession is the setting at which a sickly Dimmesdale's humanity is seen. T...

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• Grade Level: High School