Essays on Scarlet Letter

Rhetorical Analysis on the Scarlet Letter Hawthorne successfully portrays the use of extended metaphors, foreshadowing and language throughout the Scarlet Letter to easily grab hold or grasp the reader’s attentive minds. First of all the utilization of the extended metaphors-the lengthening of the average metaphor was developed in this passage to thoroughly describe Pearls reaction…

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the theme of the individual versus society Is prevalent. One of the most Intriguing characters In the novel Is Hester Prone, who Is ostracizes by the society around her. Hawthorne uses symbols to accentuate how Hester chooses to accept her branded punishment as a moral obligation rather than…

Love is a strange thing. It is strong, free, and blind. With it come many pleasures. However, what often occurs after love is the antithesis of love. Once love is lost in a person, a barrage of feelings inhabits that person. One of the darkest, strongest, most eminent emotions that occur in a person is…

Power of SinIn The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne presents three main characters that commit evil and sinful acts, where each act is at a different degree of sinfulness. These three sinners (in the eyes of the Puritan community) are: the beautiful Hester Prynne, the esteemed Reverend Dimmesdale, and the cold-hearted doctor Roger Chillingworth. Hawthorn believes…

When one ponders the thought of innocence, one thinks of a young child who has not been privy to the outside world. Innocence denotes one who were to argue fault, or to be even more specific, one who does not sin. Yet if one were to argue that everyone sins, than that must mean that…

No one is perfect and no one is exactly the same. Everyone sins, and that includes telling lies. Most everyone lies at some point, whether it be to cover something up or just make someone feel better. Or it can be both. We as people are very afraid of being judged in a bad way,…

The Puritan society persecutes Hester Prying for committing adultery, while the persecutors themselves are guilty of hypocrisy. Hawthorne exposes the true two-faced mind-set of the Puritans through their regard of corporal punishment: “[The] society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it” (39). Hawthorne inserts his own commentary, averring that the…

The author emphasizes that no one is completely honest, even in the time of confession. Hawthorne interrogates the reader about whether they are ever fully honest. “Breathe not, to any human soul, that didst ever call me husband! ” states Chlorinating. (52) The novelist writes a conversation between the two to show secrets within secrets;…

The Scarlet Letter Pearls have always held a great price to mankind, but no pearl has ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as Nathaniel Hawthorn’s powerful heroine Hester Prone. Her daughter Pearl, born into a Puritan prison in more ways than one, is an enigmatic character serving entirely as a…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates the social outcast of a sinned member of the puritan society accused of adultery. The story follows the life of Hester Prone and how she contends with difficulties with her public shaming. Although, the Scarlet Letter is the true symbol that grows in meaning throughout the story. Text-to-Itself:…