THE SCARLET LETTER The novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is set in the mid 1600's. When the first scene opens the main character Hester is convicted of committing the sin of adultery. She is forced to wear the letter "A" on her breast. This letter "...

The Red Mark Who can honestly say that they do not bear a red mark of their own? Some of ours have a deeper tint of crimson than others. However, many of us love to hide our scarlet letter under our clothing just like Dimmesdale. Instead, we take pleasure in finding and criticizing other people...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible are both distinctly different narratives of the Salem Witch trials. The Scarlet Letter is a novel and The Crucible is a play. While The Scarlet Letter deals mainly with the sin of adultery, The Crucible mainly deals with w...

Literary Analysis of The Scarlet LetterIn chapter 20 of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester and Dimmesdale plan to leave the colony on the fourth day en route for the Old World. Dimmesdale's decision to leave with Hester fills him with a sense of freedom from his place of torture...

Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism through out the whole book of The Scarlet Letter. This allows him to express the themes of the book. For instance, Hawthorne uses the letter "A" to symbolize many different things. The "A" is used as a key element or almost plays the main charac...

In the book The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a series of important events take place, which are shaped by their settings. Such settings are the fundamental prophets and story-line guides within the book, symbolizing the characters and the paths that they will take. A premium example of s...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible are both distinctlydifferent narratives of the Salem Witch trials. The Scarlet Letter is a novel and The Crucible is aplay. While The Scarlet Letter deals mainly with the sin of adultery, The Crucible mainly dealswith ...

Romanticism can be defined as a literary movement marked especially by emphasis on the imagination and the emotions and by the use of autobiographical material. The years from 1810 to 1865 marked the period of romanticism. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, is a piece of l...

Falsehood is one of the biggest themes in The Scarlet Letter. Most of the characters in the book are somehow affected by it. The three main characters' lives are affected and molded by the way that they deal with this falsehood. Hester and Dimmesdale have falsehood towards Hester's husb...

Freedom in the Forest - A fundamental theme in the Scarlet LetterIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered on a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his or her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how he or she tru...

Scarlet Letter Chapters 9 and 10 After arriving in Boston, Chillingworth slips into society as the role of a doctor. After all, the townsfolk had little access to any kind of good medical care, so of course they welcomed him with open arms. Besides his training in European Science, he also ha...

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne uses diction and symbolism to show the negative effects of stifling conformity verses the positive empowerment found in embarrassing one's own truth. He tries to impress upon his readers that an outsider whether from another physical location, or simply someone...

Letter Both Hester and Dimmesdale, are characters in the Scarlet Letter. They suffer with the guilt of the sin of adultery that they committed. At the time, the Puritans looked down on this type of sin. Hester and Dimmesdale can be compared and contrast in the way they handled their scarlet let...

The two authors Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne share much interest in both their stories. They both have examples of the dark side of human nature and the complexities of human psychology. Also some of the characters in their story get alienated, also some have distortions in their ego. Th...

Who is the Greatest Sinner in The Scarlet Letter?There are many sins committed in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn, including many counts of adultery, witchcraft, and hatred. Despite the other's wrongdoing, one person stands out. Chillingworth is the greatest sinner in the nove...

Dimmesdale: Tragic Hero? One may ask how The Scarlet Letter would fit the structure of a classical tragedy. The answer to this question is quite simple if you know how to identify a tragedy. A tragedy is a story that depicts serious incidents in which protagonists undergo a change from happiness t...

When one person thinks of a human, he or she thinks of a perfect life with perfect family and everything that goes along with it. We, as people do not think of each other as snakes that slither only to feed off each other's problems or to hide what is true. We always want to think of each other...

Character Analysis of Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter is a story of characters that have to live and deal with the effects of sin in different ways. Of these characters, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the character portrayed as the most weak and unnoble. Despite this portrayal Dimm...

Mental and Psychological Event in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter, written by the famous Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are many elements of mental and psychological events going on throughout the novel. These forms of events are found mostly in discoveries made by the main characters of the bo...

DimmesdaleIn the book The Scarlet Letter, the character Reverend Dimmesdale, a very religious man, committed adultery, which was a sin in the Puritan community. Of course, this sin could not be committed alone. His partner was Hester Prynne. Hester was caught with the sinning only because she had ha...

The Conscience's Roll in Dealing with Guilt and ShameWhat power the conscience holds, as it can, will bring a person to his doom. Throughout the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the main characters, Reverend Dimmesdale, expresses his feeling of guilt best by his action. The ...

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", life is centered around a rigid, pure society in which one is unable to show his or her deepest thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how they truly feel, or the emotion is bottled up until it explodes....

The Scarlet Letter displays that guilt is venomous and destructive, even more so than physical injuries. Nathaniel Hawthorne wanted to show the result of hiding one's sins and the destructiveness of secrecy and deception. In the story, Dimmesdale is consumed by his feelings of guilt, and in the...

The works of Nathaniel Hawthorne all had one thing in common. They all managed to deliver a strong message that often times dealt with the darker side of society. Hawthorne saw that the world was evil and had no problem expressing this view in his writing. Through his books and short stories...

Vocabulary 1. vicissitude: This means to have a change in life. The vicissitude affected her so greatly; she could not proceed to press on any longer. 2. uncouth: This means to have a poor behavior. He acted with an uncouth behavior toward the people. 3. obeisance: This means the opposite of unc...