Offered the opportunity to make a public confession of his guilt and live, Proctor almost succumbs, even signing a written confession. However his immense pride and fear of public opinion compelled him to withhold his adultery from the court. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies!” Proctor utters these lines at the end of the play, in Act IV, when he is wrestling with his conscience over whether to confess to witchcraft and thereby save himself from the gallows.
The Puritans in The Scarlet Letter ironically condemn Hester by hypocritically reacting to her sin and by foolishly praising the preacher who actually committed adultery with her. Once the puritans realize Hester was pregnant, they began to condemn her and give her harsh consequences. All together they banished her from the town and tried to take her daughter away from her. These consequences were given hypocritically since the majority of the town participated in witchcraft. The town, in order to justify it's sin, acted like they actually held standards by harshly attacking Hester's sin.
The turning point of this chapter would be that Dimmesdale confesses to being Pearls father. But the congregation does not believe him; they think he is just portraying his holiness. As a punishment for his sin Dimmesdale whips himself. What are the chapters ruling images? The ruling images in this chapter are the sorrow and hatred that Dimmesdale has for himself and beating himself with a whip.
Because of her hate towards Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, Abigail creates demented tales, directed at abolishing the “problem.” Though Abigail’s wild canards seem quite obtuse in civilization today, at the time her acts fell to justification. Furthermore, because of Abigail’s childlike disposition in wiggling her way out of punishment as well as her lust and love for John Proctor, she found deceiving the people of Salem easy, seeing as the threat of witchcraft and demons loomed dangerously in the hearts and minds of all who lived there. Though the
It burns through the entire novel as his guilt grows over the seven years of hiding his secret. It is the burden he must live with as he lives in the shadow of his actions. At the end when he reveals it to the community many see it and some don’t. The letter isn’t the only supernatural element in the novel; Pearl is referred to in the story as “the devil child by Mistress Hibbens, a witch. In the governor hall, the narrator describes Pearl as, "There was a fire in her and throughout her; she seemed the unpremeditated offshoot of a passionate moment" (69) One of the main influences of the romanticism
We can also discern the true Shepherd's through their teachings about the incarnation of Christ and deity of our Lord Jesus. Our Saviour advised us "by their fruit you will recognize them. "(Matthew 7:20). If someone is not providing teaching based on Jesus Christ's theology then he is proving himself false. Satan and his minions have corrupted the minds of those people who listen to his deceptive ideas so as to continue their hell-based schemes.
In Nathaniel Hawthorn's, The Scarlet Letter, Pearl is the symbol of sin and adultery as portrayed by society. She is the “living” scarlet letter that acts as a reminder to Hester of her sin. She is a unique child with traits that make the rest of the town believe she is the devil child. However she is also the connection that Hester and Dimmesdale have with one another, and the reason why they came out to the public. Pearl is the human
When one accuser cried witch, the others were willing to do the same and in a way began to believe their own lies. The Puritans of Salem failed to see the true motives behind the accusers and were blinded by their obsession with witchcraft. One reason that the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria happened was the Puritan's strict fundamentalism and assurance by respected members of their community that witches existed in their community. The Puritans believed that every word in the bible was the true word of God and that they had to follow everything that the bible said. They thought that the devil had the ability to enter a person's body and turn them into a witch.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, allows the reader to interpret the scarlet letter in his novel in many different ways. Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter was meant to be worn as a symbol of shame but as the novel progresses it is a powerful symbol of Hester’s identity, which is ultimately beautiful. Hester was punished by wearing the scarlet letter but even with removing the scarlet letter Hester would not be able to escape the shame. Hester was punished by wearing the scarlet letter but even with removing the scarlet letter she would not be able to escape the shame. The townspeople were very cruel and harsh to Hester for committing a sin.
The Scarlet Letter "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a somewhat short novel. It is about a women named Hester Prynne who has done an act of adultery. She is forced to wear a letter A on her chest symbolizing adultery. This all happens when she thinks her husband Roger Chillingworth died at seas so she sees another man. The mans name is Arthur Dimmesdale whom she conceives a child with named Pearl.