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…Throughout The Scarlet Letter, the main character, Hester Prynne, is portrayed as a feminist woman. Unlike many Puritan women, Hester creates her own lifestyle and way of living without the help of a male husband. Hawthorne uses Hester's business success…

…Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne, although sometimes perceived otherwise, is known to be one of the greatest heroines to grace the pages of classic literature. In portraying her as somewhat of an anti-hero, Hawthorne…

…Throughout The Scarlet Letter, the main character, Hester Prynne, is portrayed as a feminist woman. Unlike many Puritan women, Hester creates her own lifestyle and way of living without the help of a male husband. Hawthorne uses Hester's business success…

…the courts decided to put her on a scaffold for a significant amount of time. The scaffold, an important place of punishment in the American colonies, is a significant setting in the Scarlet Letter, because there Hester carried out her punishment, Chillingworth…

…Sin, like virtue has always been of great human concern. Sin to one person is quite different to another. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne sin is a pervasive theme. One of the main characters, Hester Prynne commits a sin and has to cope…

…Dimmesdale and Guilt The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most well known novels of the romantic writing era. It is a fascinating story about human frailty and its attempt to redeem itself. Set in Boston, the story involves a woman…

…and blunt to everyone who was to look upon her blazing scarlet letter. But Dimmesdale is put through horrible anguish lieing to his followers and even to himself. Just as the moral of the story suggests " 'Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world' " (pg254…

…The Scarlett letter and The Crucible have many similar themes. Three of these themes are religion, vengeance, and sin. The authors of these works used these themes to express the extreme situations that occurred during the late 1600s, and in a certain…

…        Two American authors, of two distinctly different time periods had one very similar task, to turn a piece of American History into a believable tragedy. Arthur Miller with The Crucible and Nathaniel Hawthorne with The Scarlet Letter…

…She's Worth More Than a Diamond Pearls have always held a great price to mankind, but no pearl had ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as Hester Prynne, a powerful heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. Pearl, born…