Character Analysis Hester Prynne is the character I have chosen to accomplish this character analysis. I chose to analyze Hester Prynne, because she plays a major role in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne is a young rebellious lady who succumbed to temptation. This caused her many problems, because in her religion adultery is the worst sin you can perform. This caused her to be humiliated and punished in front of the whole town.
I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes?” (Act 1) This moving scene effectively illustrates the theme of purification. Abigail confesses her love for proctor, and also expresses her fascination. Proctor has changed towards her and she can’t accept the fact that he wants her to
Nora hesitantly says, “It’s something I should dearly love to say, if Torvald could hear me… No, I daren't; it's so shocking” (1. 604-607). Nora in her drunken stupor believes that she is untouchable and abuses this position by almost revealing her true relationship with Krogstad to Torvald. After Mr. Helmer walks into the scene, in the following monologue we see Nora scolding herself for almost revealing the truth “too soon”, before she was in the actual seat of power. Nora noticing her new position of power led to her abusing it.
The title was forced upon me through a rigorous legal process, which in the end I let myself loose. Even though the thought of raising my niece by myself makes me want to vomit, I could never give her to a stranger. My sister, even though she is the criminal that she is, would never want that. And at the end of the day, she is still my sister, and Julia is still my blood. Angela, my sister, committed murder.
I honestly am not okay with her story. The part that confuses me the most is how her best friend once bullied her to death, because “she was just kidding with Jodee”. To look back at the times when I was being bullied, I could never think of asking my bullies to be my best friend in my wedding. The only person that could forgive someone that did them so much harm has to have a big forgiving heart. After asking her that question I feel as if she does not have that heart.
She knew there would be circumstantial victims. She never expected them to be children. Surely, this was a test of her dedication to the operation. Elphaba debated with herself. Her mind screamed at her to run away while her thumb twitched above the button.
By not telling Pearl she gets even more curious and determined to ask Hester about the letter A. This causes Hester to get more and more frustrated and a bit annoyed with Pearl. Pearl was seen as an outcast to the Puritans, they even said she was " an imp of evil, emblem of product of sin, she had no right among Christian infants" (140.) Pearl herself knew she was different, and seen as an outcast, because of this she had no friends and soon made up friends with her imagination. Being a little girl which Pearl is, she entertained herself by gathering wild- flowers and throwing them intentionally at Hester's letter A. Hester
During her sessions with Doctor Jordan, her responses are all too rehearsed, and it gives readers a sense of unreliability about her story: “But I don’t say this. I look at him stupidly. I have a good stupid look which I have practiced” (38). Also, knowing that Grace did not have the best influences (she grew up with a manipulative father, and after that she had a friend that was foul-mouthed and not afraid to speak her mind) helps the reader understand where Grace comes from. It leaves one wondering if Grace could have the mind to manipulate McDermott to commit the murders.
This is demonstrated in the text “Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignomity in which she was enveloped” (40). The letter might be a sign of sin to Hester and the Puritan village, but Pearl sees it as something else entirely. The scarlet letter is both a part and a connection to her mother, for they both are the physical manifestations of Hester’s wrongdoing. After Hester takes of the letter, Pearl refuses to come to her. She refuses to recognize her mother, only coming to her after the “A” has returned to her mother’s bosom.
Assertion Journals Symbol: Refutation The part of an argument where a speaker or writer anticipates and counters opposing points of view. Example: “Okay, so meet me there?” “There’s really no point,” “Can you please let me decide that for myself?” (48) Function: So in this chapter Zoey and Stevie Rae are having an argument where she wants to save Stevie and gain her humanity back while she is still reluctant of it. Stevie Rae is rebutting all of Zoey’s arguments because it’s very predictable and she knows what Zoey wants to do. Though Stevie decides to come to be helped, she says it’ll be futile anyway. Symbol: Prose: Ordinary writing (both fiction and nonfiction) as distinguished from verse.