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…Pearl as a Symbolic Device to Work on the Consciences of Hester and Dimmesdale In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Pearl Prynne is the living manifestation of the scarlet letter. She is the visible tie between Hester and Dimmesdale…

…        Who should punish a sinner? Should it be religion, society, or the individual? In Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter all three affect the main character Hester Prynne. Religion punishes her with the Scarlet Letter, society ostracizes…

…The Scarlet Letter The novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a captivating account of a Puritan community that experiences a halt in beliefs. The story deals with a woman, Hester, who commits adultery with a minister resulting…

…Essay Question 3: Was Paul a male chauvinist? Cite particular passages in his letters to support your view.         In many of the letters that Paul transcribed during his travels, he espoused views that feminists of our time might construe…

…In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale is a young Puritan pastor who has committed adultery. While Hester was looked at with scorn for the sin that she had committed, Dimmesdale was greatly respected by the whole community, who were unaware…

…The Scarlet Letter & A Model of Christian Charity Beneath the Surface <Tab/>Nathaniel Hawthorne lived during an extraordinarily turbulent time in American history. Our young nation was barely into its second generation…

…Herbert Gorman's essay entitled "The Absolved, the Redeemed, and the Damned: A Triangle", in response to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, discusses Hawthorne's unique writing style and the effectiveness of this work. According to Gorman…

…<Tab/> Comparison Of the Five Journals When we read al these stories ; Gramma, Thing That Go Quack In The Night, Letters From Camp, Where Angles Fear, and the Monkeys Paw, Some of them I liked and some of them…

…Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is one of the best examples of his work. He worked nine hours a day for six months to churn out this nice piece of literature, possibly one of America's greatest novels. The writing of this book marked a phase…

…The Scarlet Letter In the story, The Scarlet Letter, the involvement of supernatural events, spiritual and physical, gives the story a touch of a fantasy and shows the reader what is in the mind of the characters. Many times, mystical happenings take…