This is proven when Hester remarks to herself, "Oh Father in heaven - if thou art still my father - what is this being which I have brought into the world" (Hawthorne 89).Thirdly, Pearl represents the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale. Proven when, Hester realizes what Pearl represents when she does not hold Pearl up in front of the "A”; she carries the child around because it is a direct reflection of her sin. Hester is, "wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another" (Hawthorne 48). Pearl in many ways is the scarlet letter. First, the scarlet letter amuses Pearl, and also controls her behavior.
Other important characters in the novel are Hester´s daughter Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Arthur Dimmesdale is the reverend and well-liked minister of the community, but also the unknown father of Pearl. Burdened with guilt, he is suffering and gets seriously sick because he cannot entrust himself to somebody. Roger Chillingworth, who turns out to be Hester’s husband and was thought to be dead, makes it his task to find out who his wife’s lover was and to punish him. During the plot of the novel, the original significance of the letter imposed on it by the Puritan officials changes.
Furthermore, Broe is creating an emphasis on the word ‘own’ in this sentence because she claims Plath is uneducated about Mein Kampf. This allows the audience to assume Broe is accenting Plath’s stupidity through the stanza written about Mein Kampf in her poem, “Daddy.” Later Broe goes on to say Plath “loses her own powers of descriptions to a senseless German prattle,” (Broe, 284). Moreover, Broe believes Plath’s allegory of Nazi-Jew is random and stupid and does not justify the proper of example of the relationship she ultimately held with her father. Broe also infers that by alluding to Nazi-Jew, Plath is only succeeding to put herself
The term ‘tart’ has connotations of someone who is unfaithful, and this would cause the reader to distrust Curley’s wife as a character. Steinbeck gives the reader the impression that she is portrayed as a villain as the workers did not have nice things to say about her. We are encouraged to dislike her without actually her being present or doing anything in the story. Steinbeck also uses light and darkness to portray attitudes towards Curley’s wife. An example of this is when Curley’s wife first appears in the bunkhouse; both Lennie and George notice that the rectangle of sunshine is cut off.
Because she lived in such a God driven and puritan town, the judicial system of the settlement had decided for her to acknowledge her sin by embroidering a vibrant scarlet letter “A” onto her dress to symbolize adultery. She was often ostracized from the rest of the town since she was forced to wear the crimson “A” everywhere she went. As well as the letter to remind her of the wrong she had done, the affair had left her with a fatherless daughter named Pearl. Later in the novel we discover the father is the Reverend of the town, the admirable Arthur Dimmesdale. Through pain, remorse and agony the novel reveals that it is better to tell a harmless lie then to confess a hurtful truth.
In Both texts, Nan Dear and Jess’ father experience discrimination and racism and that’s why barriers are put up, because they don’t want the protagonists to deal with the isolation and mistreatment. However, by doing this they’re putting up additional barriers to fitting in. In “Rainbows end” Nan Dear is always warning Dolly ““you watch who you’re mixing with. Hard to tell a good man from a bad. Bad one will promise you everything, then do the straight opposite just like that” we can tell that she is talking from experience and she says it how it
Hypocrisy, the Ungodly Sin Above all others The question of sin is a reoccurring theme in “The Scarlet letter”, where various sins, from Hestor’s adultery, to Dimmesdale’s cowardice, or Chillingworth’s revenge are put on display to be judged by the Puritan society, and also by the reader. In his novel, Hawthorne uses these smaller sins to display a deeper sin; the sin of Puritan hypocrisy. From the beginning of the book Hawthorne ridicules the Puritan society. As one of the first buildings in their new town, the Puritans build a prison. For a culture that is based strictly on the bible that teaches forgiveness, strangely the Puritans are quick to punish, and Hestor also becomes a victim of this.
The Puritans view this letter as a symbol of the adultery. The letter also put Hester through torture: "Of an impulse and passionate nature. She had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely wreaking itself in every variety of insult but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment and herself the object"(54). This implies that Hester's sin of bearing a child without the presence of a husband will always be remembered. In the middle of the novel is a transition period where the letter "A" is viewed differently than before.
The letter's meaning in Puritan society banishes her from her normal life. The Puritans view this letter as a symbol of the devil. Because of her alienation from the puritan society, Hester has become fiercely independent from her isolation from the community. This indicates that Hester does not consider her “sin” to be really wrong but yet, she has still not truly come in terms with this letter. Later on in the novel, we see that the letter “A” symbolizes Hester’s atonement for her sin.
He asks Reverend Hale to resolve his curiosity about what his wife Martha might be reading behind his back, but instead rouses the town’s suspicion of Martha being a witch. He says to Hale, “I never said my wife were a witch, Mr. Hale; I only said she were reading books!” (71). Giles feels guilt for being responsible for his wife’s imprisonment and tries to defend her in court. Consequently, Giles refuse to give the name of the man who can substantiate his claim that Putnam is killing his neighbors for their land. If he gives the name, he would have to take on the guilt of selling out his friend.