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…The book The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a book about sin and its consequences. In The Scarlet Letter there are four characters that fall into the grasp of sin and feel its everlasting consequences. There is Hester and her…

…The Crime and Punishment of Hester Prynne In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main theme is crime and punishment and the ways Hester Prynne overcomes adversity. She commits adultery, a very bad crime back then, and has a scarlet letter…

…The Scarlet Letter The prison is sad and gloomy. There is a small crowd of Puritans standing outside. Their clothes reflect the darkness of the prison. Hester Prynne is outwardly imprisoned. She committed adultery, and is now being punished…

…on crime and punishment, but similar underlying principles can be observed as well. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne provides its readers with an exemplary account of a small puritan town and peculiar use of law and order. Both the Puritan society…

…How does Alan Bennet present modern society in the monologue ‘A Lady of Letters’ and what do we learn about its effects on people through the character of Irene Ruddock? Alan Bennet shows society as split in two. He shows the divide in age between…

…The story The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne this story takes place on puritan times, is about Hester Prynne who commits the act of adultery and has to b punished for her sin. Out of all the characters in the story, Hester suffers…

…Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter revolves around the theme of sin and the effects it has on the mind, body, and soul. The main sin was somehow affected all of the characters in the book, which was adultery. The three main characters were…

…The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynn was strong. She was strong enough to board a strange ship sailing to a new world. She was strong enough to actually be hopeful, to really believe in a chance. That, in my own opinion…

…The Scarlet Letter It has been said that Hawthorne condemns the Puritan society of Boston and at the same time presents it as a stable necessary environment for the New England settlers at that time. In the scarlet letter the core of the story line…

…. She finally arrives at the scaffold, displaying the two results of her adultery; the scarlet letter and her child, Pearl. In order to escape her isolation, Hester goes into her inner soul and into the past. In Hester's 'dusky mirror' of imagination, she…