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…Letters of a Woman Homesteader In Letters of a Woman Homesteader, there are several ideas and themes that are present. Mixed among them are conflict, geography and gender roles but deep within the letters and a word of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, no other…

…, but to cruelly lash out on those who were sinned, or were deemed unfit for society. Two works of literature that display both aspects of this society very accurately are The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorn, and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The Scarlet Letter…

…In Nathanial Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the sin of adultery committed by Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne is seen by society to be very wrong. Placing great punishment on Hester Prynne causing her to wear a scarlet letter “A” representing…

…The Scarlet Letter opens with a long preamble about how the book came to be written. The nameless narrator was the surveyor of the customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts. In the customhouse's attic, he discovered a number of documents, among them…

…Pearl Prynne, Is She Older Then She Seems Or Just An Elfish Child? “See ye not, this is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a millionfold the power of retributation for my sin?” (Hawthorne pg. 109) Critics have suggested…

…Symbolism and The Scarlet Letter Symbolism is traditionally a sign or token of something. In the matter of literature, the definition of the literary device, symbolism, is more complicated. Symbols of literature are usually metaphysical. The main…

…At first, let me introduce the main characters that appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter. HESTER PRYNNE – the main character of the story. Beautiful puritan woman full of strong passions. Strong and carring, helping anyone she can, cares for poor…

…The Scarlet Letter: Essay Exam The scarlet letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the nature of sin and iss effects on the human spirits. People experience views and reaction to sin of shape to their life and the morals is different. Hester suffer…

…. The Scarlet Letter, a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1840, is mainly about the Boston Puritans of the 1600’s. In this novel, Hester Pryne has to wear an elaborately designed “A” on her breast because it represents that she…

…The Scarlet Letter is a book of much symbolism. One of the most complex symbols in the book is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne. Pearl, throughout the story, develops into a symbol and one that is always changing. In the following essay, I…