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…The Scarlet Letter takes place in the Puritan Mass Bay Colonies, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and centers on Hester Prynne. Hester is an outsider in her puritan community, because she has committed a horrific crime in her neighbor's eyes. She has…

…. Several of the women are outraged when they see how she has chosen to display the letter, and want to rip it off. Hester is led through the crowd to the scaffold of the pillory. She ascends the stairs and stands, now fully revealed to the crowd, in her…

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…The Principio Project at Peddie Passage Commentary on The Scarlet Letter By Amy Solomon, asolomon@peddie.k12.nj.us -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "…in the view of Infinite Purity, we are sinners…

…In the novel The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the society of a Puritan town exclude anyone who is in any way deviant and considers that person as being sinful. In order to fit in the people are willing…

…The Persian Letters The book The Persian Letters by Montesquieu is a fictional novel that was written by the author so he could comment on the society in which he was living. This novel has served as a good example of the ideas that were present…

…The Scarlet Letter centers round the consequences of sin, especially shame and guilt. It is to be noted that the sin of adultery is, in itself, not the subject matter of the novel. In fact, the novel opens after the sin has been committed…

…The book The Scarlet Letter is all about symbolism. People and objects are symbolic of events and thoughts. Throughout the course of the book, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester, Pearl, and Arthur Dimmesdale to signify Puritanic and Romantic…

…The Disease of Guilt Several things could be said about Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter. The focus of The Scarlet Letter is, guilt can rip apart your life. The fact that Hester can see the devil in her own daughter’s eyes…

…, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine, and the end result is The Scarlet Letter. Despite all these things it is considered a classic and was a statement of the era. The Scarlet Letter is a wonderful and not so traditional…