The analysis of the main characters, Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and Holden of The Scarlet Letter and The Catcher in the Rye show that they’re impostures and the main theme of the books’ is hypocrisy. Hester Prynne, the woman in The Scarlet Letter who commits adultery, is mostly the reason why everyone else suffers and the reason of the hypocrisy in the story. During the first scene, she exits the prison with a scarlet letter sewed on her clothing, “in fine red cloth surrounded with elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread" (Hawthorne 46). From the start, it is shown that Hester
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a gothic romance of two prohibited lovers who face the consequences of their shared adultery. In the last chapter which serves as an epilogue; informs the reader of the events following Dimmesdale’s death and reports on the fates of the major characters. Hawthorn uses a series of Rhetorical Devices – such as Irony, symbolism, and imagery- to explain that the admission of sin leads to redemption and forgiveness. Irony is a major role in this last chapter; it helps the reader understand the point Hawthorne is trying to deliver. He uses Chillingworth actions as an irony act, as an example, that even the evilest person can still reach redemption and forgiveness; as long as they accept their sin and the consequences.
Delaram Yazdani American Literature 1 Final Exam 21 February 2013 Pearl, From Elf to Treasure The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story of puritanical society, a kind of society which confronted Hester for having committed the sin of adultery, and expelled her from the community by making her to wear the Scarlet Letter “A”. Pearl is the outcome of the sin. She represents the Scarlet Letter, or better to say, she is the living symbol of the Scarlet letter. However, she meant treasure to her mother, a gift from the Almighty God, and brought liveliness and happiness to her life. ““God gave me the child?” cried she.
Hester Prynne's Repression Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, is the story of a young woman, who is an obvious member of the Puritan society. We see in the beginning, that after committing adultery with a minister, Hester unintentionally bores a child into this small, oppressive Puritan society in the mid 1600's. In the beginning, Hester Prynne, is repressed by her community when she is forced to wear the letter “A” relating her commitment of adultery with Minister Dimmadale, but soon after her acceptance of the sin; she embraces the letter, and changes the meaning of her scarlet letter “A” for Adultery to an "A" for Able, and becomes an active member in the oppressive Puritan society. Although many say that Hester was repressed by her community, she stayed stong and became a rather social member of society eventhough her sin was looked down upon by many of the members of her community. Hester became a great aid to the community, by often socializing in her job of needlework.
Hester Prynne and The Badge of Shame In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne analyzes the characters and allows the narrator to tell the story in a way that show he knows more about the character than they know about themselves. Yet, the narrator is subjective and voices his own opinion. In the novel, he is clearly sympathetic to Hester and Dimmesdale. Hester Prynne is a woman who is married to a man named Rogger Chillingworth. While she is married she find out she is pregnant with some else’s child.
Although Hester made the decision of committing adultery, the reason she lives on is her dealing with the scarlet letter that she is given to exhibit to the town. Instead of mourning and hiding her letter, Hester does the exact opposite of what
While both an obvious symbol of adultery and sin, the scarlet letter worn by Hester is also a recurrent symbol of public judgment in this Massachusetts town. Hester’s behavior is premised on her desire to determine her own identity rather than to allow others to determine it for her. Although a mark of shame as seen by the community, she utilizes the letter as a way of identifying herself and her past experiences. Both this and the mere presence of her illegitimate daughter Pearl are big parts of her character in the story; to pretend that they do not exist would mean denying the essence of who she is. The torment with which she is subjected to by the community is not enough to drive her away, only to send her into a subjective mindset in which she more intelligibly begins to assess the morality of those around her.
The rape and other forms of silencing, also encountered by other women in the novel, make them embrace subjectivity and the patriarchal rule. The main female characters, Sofia, Celie and Shug Avery, strategically use love, their sexuality, femininity, whereby female friendship represses their oppression, language, education, Shug’s singing talent and a physical escape to rebel against patriarchal power to break the silence. Rape is a form of abuse that has conquered Celie’s needs and desires under the authority of her father, Alphonso. He psychologically trains her mind and uses threats to accept submission and silence. By impregnating and raping her at fourteen, she feels isolated and violated.
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.
According to Sartre we are “condemned to be free” whether we realize it or not. Here I shall apply this perspective of freedom to select parts of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, with a view to evaluate the effects of freedom on the main protagonists Edna and Léonce. Feminist criticism of The Awakening to date, states almost without exception, that Edna’s suicide at the end of the novel is her only avenue of escape from the oppressions of a patriarchal society, after she has discovered freedom. Step by step, Edna divests herself of the roles and responsibilities expected of her as a wife, mother, and an active social being. In fact Chopin removes all conventional obstacles to a woman’s freedom from her path—husband, children, household duties, and enables her to devote herself to her painting, if she is so minded.