Transformation: The result of sin Transformation is changing to an entirely new situation. Situations that give you the opportunity to either better yourself, or destroy yourself. In the book The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters transform because of a sin that...

Themes Pertaining to The Scarlet LetterThe Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illustrates upon many ideas referring to life and ways of living. He touches on values viewed by people of all types of social status. Morals, which should be engraved in one's mind, seemed to be forgotten. These a...

The Scarlet Letter In the book The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a character by the name of Roger Chillingworth had committed the unpardonable sin and he basically killed another character, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Everyone ...

The Scaffold Scenes as a Structural Device In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" the author uses three scaffold scenes to mark the development of Hester Prynne as well as unite the plot, themes, and symbols of the novel in a perfect balance. The basic structure ...

A theme is a central idea or abstract concept that is made concrete through representation in person, action, and image. There can be more than one theme in a story. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth all demonst...

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel of many obstacles. Its obstacles varied from sin and hypocrisy to guilt and vengeance. These obstacles are all overcome by love and grace. These obstacles are shown in the three main characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chilling...

Human Nature's Imperfection Throughout history, many great philosophers of the past, such as Plato or Aristotle, have commented on their views of our inscrutable human nature, searching for reason or justification to explain human behavior. Many different theories have hypothesized it as eith...

In the novel, "The Scarlet Letter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, some of the characters change in different ways. There are three characters in the novel that I think change the most, and they are Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. All three characters change into different peop...

The Letter and Human Frailty Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, tells a tale of human frailty and sorrow through each and every character. When you first meet Hester Prynne, the main character, she seems quite innocent. Only guilty of not naming her lover. Yet she is tr...

In the world of literature, there are many ways to indirectly convey or foreshadow events, settings, and situations. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter uses a great deal of literary devices and techniques in order to effectively lead the reader towards his viewpoint and, finally, towards his p...

The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne uses several dynamic characters to develop the plot of the novel. A dynamic character is a character that changes or evolves through the course of a story. Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth were all dynamic characters. The characte...

THE BOOK LOG ON: The Scarlet Letter By: Nathaniel Hawthorne Period 4 Adv. English 11 November 2, 1999 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn begins by dealing with Hester Prynne's crime and sentence. She shows herself to be a proud woman in how she embr...

The changes Roger Chillingworth undergoes in The Scarlet LetterA harmless elderly man keen on helping a minister with his mental and physicalproblems, changes in a heartbeat to hatred and tormenting revenge. Many people whohave read The Scarlet Letter can most likely guess instantly that the man bei...

Changing Lives When one commits a sin, the heart is sometimes filled with guilt and shame. If the sin is not confessed, the truth can eat away at the soul. Not only does it cause internal pain, but it also reflects upon other people. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne shows h...

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...

SCARLET LETTER In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, two main characters Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth both have secrets though each suffers different consequences for their sins. Secrets are those that are kept from the public to hide guilt, shame, revenge, hat...

The fate of all characters in The Scarlet Letter was determined by Hawthorne's revealing statement in the middle of the novel. This impenetrable truth dictates the behavior of the characters in the entire story. The public and the hierarchy of the society demanded punishments for all involved o...

In the book The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a character by the name of Roger Chillingworth had committed the unpardonable sin and he basically killed another character, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Everyone has been in a position where they have had the chance of manipulating or bla...

In the novel The Scarlet Letter, perhaps the most interesting and hated character was Roger Chillingworth. When Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this book he spent a great deal of time analyzing and defining his characters through their traits and the secrets they held against one another. Chillingworth wa...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book, The Scarlet Letter, uses physical appearance to mirror a characters physiological or spiritual state. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, whom the reader may remember as having taken a brief part in the scene of Hester Prynne’s disgrace, is a complex character. R...

I believe that the characters names in The Scarlet Letter reveal the characters traits a great deal. The characters of Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl are the most dominant. Their names portray adjectives that are displayed as part of the character's personality. Roger Chill...

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...

Francisco 1TRUNKSScarlet Letter Essay October 2001Consequences Resulting from Decisions With every decision or action that is made, comes an outcome. One's principles can have an impact on how the person lives his or her life. As Hester Prynne did, one can choose to follow principles that are ...

Written in the 1850's, "The Scarlet Letter" indeed protrays the events during the 1650's, the time of Puritanism. It documents the lives of three tragic characters, each of whom suffer greatly because of his or her sins. In these years, people expresses themselves as being pure, sinless, so when H...

Take a creepy old mad man, and a reverend who won't confess his devil-like sin, mix in a little psychology, and mind games, and you get The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. As this story goes, Hester Prynne has committed an evil sin, and must wear a red "A" on her chest for the...