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…During a person's lifetime, secrets in a personal relationship can at times, either tear people apart or bring them together. In the historical romance, The Scarlet Letter, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, displays many accounts of deception and secrecy…

…The Screwtape Letters” by G.S Lewis Report written by Brandon Sharp September 15, 2000 Values of the Modern World Dr. Herbert Lester SC 1401 C.S. Lewis’s ,“The Screwtape Letters” , is an interesting look…

…and her sin. With almost no exceptions, the ridged townswomen are unhappy with the mildness of her punishment. Hester comes out of the prison and walks to the scaffold wearing an elaborately embroidered scarlet letter A on her breast, and carrying a small…

…SummAries Chapter 1: The Prison-Door: The first chapter in the Scarlet Letter the setting is Boston in the 17th century in front of the prison. The prison was plain colored and the surroundings were very ordinary except for the rosebush…

…The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the heroine is admired becuase of her strong will, and disregard for other's views of her. Hester Pryne displays her best qualities when she stands up to Governor Bellingham and his gang, when…

…In The Scarlet Letter the author uses several symbolic things. He uses the rose bush that is in the midst of all the grayness. Pearl, Hesters' daughter is also a symbol. The scarlet "A" that Hester has to wear is a symbol that she is an adulteress…

…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…

…Many Puritans strongly believed in the impending war between good and evil. These conflicts were usually signified by the use of light and dark, sun and shadow. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, there are many indications…

…The Scarlet Letter - Puritan Theocracy In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a strict rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to cultivate his or her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs…

…The gloomy portrayal, reflexive of the puritan society in chapter one of the Scarlet Letter, was formed by Nathaniel Hawthorne to not only foreshadow events in the novel, but to also unveil the thematic idea of social rejection and Hawthorne’s own…