Apology Letter Essay

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale are required to deal with the internal and external backlash of sinning in a highly religious Puritan community in colonial America. Hester’s daughter Pearl constantly reminds her of her past fault and she is also the labled as the product of sin by the community. Hawthorne displays the rigidness in Puritan society by exhibiting the community’s unequivocal view of Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin of adultery. Although…

excessive and unhealthy interest in them” (C.S. Lewis). As one of the most influential Christian writers of all time, C.S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters as a collection of 31 convicting letters from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon. After beginning in July of 1940, it took Lewis a little over six months to complete the letters. They were later published weekly in a gazette called The Guardian. Screwtape, who is described as an assistant to “Our Father…

My paper is about gender roles in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I believe I will focus on how Hester Prynne defies both society and gender based stereotypes. It will mostly be about her, but I will bring up Dimmesdale to contrast the two opposites. Additionally, I will use her affair with Dimmesdale that occurred behind her husband’s back. I can go into how Dimmesdale also takes on a feminine role, opposite to Hester, and how Hester chooses not to be a meek, Puritan wife. This…

The development of America as we know it today has come to be due to many series of distinct time periods and people. The famous novel The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a dramatized representation of the unique aspects of one specific time period and group of people, the Boston Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans in the 17th century. As his ancestors lived amongst these colonists, Hawthorne portrays their lives with criticism and irony. He provides a look into the ways in which their…

form in the novel The Scarlet letter. All throughout this novel, the act of sin is prevalent in almost every chapter. Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for portraying one solid concept throughout his novels. He also uses symbolism to portray human condition, knowledge, and sin in a different way. The tone exhibits a type of serious feel throughout the story, which has an impact on the ways that Hawthorne describes the different symbolisms. Another way the Scarlet letter can be interpreted is…

power of personal desire and the power of a community are both mighty, near the closure of the novel Hawthorne confesses that the power of a Puritan community can not be bested by the power of personal desire. Even at the beginning of The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne makes it obvious that Hester is undergoing a battle between the Puritan community and her personal desire. In Chapter two, for the sin that Hester had previously committed, she is given an infant, another human being, as one of her…

The scarlet letter was appointed to Hester as a punishment for her sin of committing adultery. It was supposed to shame her, but it also humbled her and transformed her to be more caring. By being an outcast, Hester had found her rightful place. She never begged for sympathy, but instead did good deeds. Since Hester cared for the poor and earned respect from the community, “many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was…

1 “The Scarlet Letter” is a historically based novel published in 1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2 The story is set in 17th-century Boston, a town heavily reliant upon Puritan doctrine and belief. 3 The year is 1642. Hester Prynne, a young spouse whose husband has been missing for more than a year, is convicted of adultery following the birth of her newborn daughter Pearl. As part of her punishment, Prynne is forced to wear a red patch of the letter A. Prynne is soon…

In his 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the turbulent effects of sin and guilt in a seventeenth-century Puritan society. The story begins and ends on the town's scaffold, first with Hester Prynne standing before the crowd, so young but already burdened with the life sentence of wearing a scarlet “A” for adultery. She holds her child, who is more a complicated symbol of an act of sin, than a familiar comfort. In the crowd stands her lover and her betrayed husband, whose…

The veil of guilt Hawthorne’s story “The Minister’s Black Veil” symbolizes guilt. Everyone sins, therefore they have guilt. Some people do not feel guilty for their sin, unlike the Minister, he took it past “normal”. It showed physically rather than emotionally like most people. Hooper also felt it emotionally he has seen it on his face every time he looked into a mirror, Hooper would shudder when he has seen his reflection. So the people weren’t the only ones that thought that the black veil…