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Summary of seminar notes on Ch 1-12 of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
... and religious, and frown upon extravagance. They believed in predestination, a belief that says when a person is born, their admittance into heaven ... know she was married? The best we can figure is that because it was such a small town, and everyone knew ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Comparing The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne to The Other by de Beauvoir
... females. Hawthorne wrote, "She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, as some brighter period, when the world should have ... , but the impact of that change on others would be more pronounced had a male acted that belief out. Furthermore, both authors ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Symbolism.
... evil. When town authorities, shocked at Pearl's apparent belief that she was plucked from a rose bush and not ... that had been over the couple in adultery, completing her service as a symbol of pain and hardship, but more importantly a symbol of love, beliefs ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Symbolism in "Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne
... longer sustaining the belief that he is above Hester. He is finally admitting she is an equal, or even that she is above him ... to escape and express their true thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. It was here that thoughts and ideas flowed as endlessly as the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
How far do you share Hawethorne's view of The Scarlet Letter as an "allegorical romance?"
... belief that there are degrees of sin and that there should be compassion towards those who have sinned. This belief is opposite to that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Puritan Society in N. Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
... that they came to a New World, but built their settlement on an antique, even anachronistic basis. Their pessimistic belief that ... that God can speak through every man and woman and that everyone can be enlightened by God, are harassed because their beliefs ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hypocrisy in "The Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne
... that I was frank with thee. I felt no love, nor feigned any' (74). Then, later, speaking to Dimmesdale, Hester further imparts her belief that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Evil of Isolation. Essay on "The Scarlet letter"
... of their belief that 'the wages of sin is death.' Only in death do Hester and Dimmesdale escape the anguish that arises from ... . 'In all her intercourse with society, save that of her daughter, there was nothing that made [Hester] feel as if she belonged ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Symbols Setting the Scene in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
... That is a representation of the Puritan belief, that one only needs to repent once, and all is forgiven. Also, one might say that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hypocrisy.
... any accusations that would come his way and say that any thing he did was "Between him and god." It is my belief that this was ... her sense of Hypocrisy. Hawthorne conveys the message that humans are weak to sins that make them seem better in the eyes of other ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne