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…The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Little Pearl was the daughter and embodied guilt of Hester Prynne, a European woman who moved to puritan New England. Hester Prynne had committed adultery. The townspeople punished her by making her wear…

…15th November, 1815 Dear Miss Marble, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your last letter, and indeed for all the letters I have received from you in the past months. I can not express how much your correspondence has come to mean to me…

…Letter from a Birmingham Jail I believe that the pastors had every right to write Dr. King a letter about their concerns, but in no way did they have to come down on him about his actions. I feel that Dr. King was right in those situations and he even…

…was going on in their home. I just think that further investigation should have gone forth before this article was published. Thank-you very much for taking time out of your schedule to read my letter. Sincerely,…

…The Scarlet Letter By: Nathaniel Hawthorne Period 4 Adv. English 11 November 2, 1999 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn begins by dealing with Hester Prynne's crime and sentence. She shows herself to be a proud woman in how she embroiders her…

…In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the strict theocratic society of the Puritan settlement is used to set up a sort of foil for the main character. Through this character he also incorporates the literary archetypes of the Civilization versus…

…longer than any other. Examining the books "Their Eyes Were Watching God", and "The Scarlet Letter", we can easily compare Hester and Janie. More subtle than these main characters are those that influence them the most, Pearl and Teacake. Pearl is Hester's…

…In "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale confronts the conflict between passion and his responsibilities by taking out his emotions on himself so that he can keep his obligation to his congregation by being a pure priest. The conflict…

…In his letter to local clergymen which he wrote from a jail in Birmingham Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave many examples to justify the breaking of Alabama state law. In the opening of his letter, he chastizes the local clergymen for focusing…

…The ninth commandment tells man not to give false witness.(Exodus 20:16) Nathaniel Hawthorn and Charles Dickens in their novels The Scarlet Letter and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, both use punishment for deception as a recurring theme. Although…