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This is the first 1,000 characters of 465 words (1.86 pages) in the essay titled Scarlet Letter1 The book The Scarlet Letter is all about symbolism. People and objects aresymbolic of events and thoughts. Throughout the course of the book, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester, Pearl, and Arthur Dimmesdale to signify Puritanic and Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner; she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. However, the Romantic philosophies of Hawthorne put down the Puritanic beliefs. She is a beautiful, young woman who has sinned, but is forgiven. Hawthorne portrays Hester as divine maternity and she can do no wrong. Not only Hester, but the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author s tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece. Pearl, Hester s child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes, is extremely smart, pretty, and nice. More often than not, she shows her intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl s favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. (The reader will recall that anything affiliated with the forest was evil to Puritans. To Hawthorne, however, the forest was beautiful and natural.) ... |
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Keywords: nathaniel hawthorne, scarlet letter, puritans, shouting match, committing adultery, irrevocably, diction, flowers, evidently, hester prynne, s child, arthur dimmesdale, beautiful gold, colorful clothes, beautiful and natural, colorful piece, she can do no wrong