Frustrated in his revenge, Chillingworth dies a year later. The story ends with Hester and Pearl leave Boston and no one knows what has happened to them. Many years later Hester returns alone still wearing the scarlet letter to live in her old cottage and resume her charitable work. She receives occasional letters from Pearl, who has married a European aristocrat and established a family of her own. When Hester dies she is buried next to Dimmesdale.
A year later, Chillingworth dies. Hester and Pearl leaves the town secretly. Eventually Hester returned alone wearing her scarlet letter to be allowed in the town. She receives letters from Pearl and is said to be married to a European. The major critical article “Critical Analysis of the Scarlet Letter Analyzing Strength and Passion” analyzed Hester after being punished of her sin.
Strongly influenced by her studies of the works of Alexander Pope[->5], John Milton[->6], Homer[->7], Horace[->8] and Virgi[->9]l, Phillis Wheatley began to write poetry. Wheatley became a Boston sensation after writing a poem on the death of evangelical preacher, George Whitefield, in 1770. In 1773 thirty-nine of her poems were published in London as “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.” It was the first book to be published by a African American. In 1778, Wheatley was legally freed from the bonds of slavery by her
Josh Kirkpatrick The Puritan Way: Oppressive Laws Followed to the Tee. Why? Hester Prynne is the epitome of what citizens of The Scarlet Letter’s Puritan society wanted to avoid by following laws, even if they are oppressive and restricting of free will. Rather than being sentenced to death she was sentenced to a dead life; she lost everything except for her personal values and Pearl (which was a curse in itself). Puritan society came down hard on lawbreakers and held to strict traditions set on the interpretations of the bible by the Magistrates.
Lily also lives with her father and she says in the book that it never felt right to call him dad so she just settled on T. Ray. T. Ray is abusive and convinces Lily that her mother’s death is all her fault by telling her that she picked up the gun and it went off in her hands and killed her mother and that her mother didn’t care about her at all and left her. The date is 1964 and President Johnson has just signed the Civil Rights Act. Rosaleen decides that she wants to register to vote and Lily walks with her into town. As they reach the outskirts of town Rosaleen and Lily come across three white men who harass Rosaleen.
The Scarlet Letter Essay Through out The Scarlet Letter one of the main themes deals with the effects of guilt and hidden sin. The first character that inquired the effects of sin was Hester Prynne; she had slept with the Pastor of the town Arthur Dimmesdale and become pregnant while she was married even though her husband was thought to be at the bottom of the sea. Since you cannot keep a baby secret, Hester had to face the punishment of adultery, which the judge decided that she was to wear the letter A on her chest for the rest of her life. Hester had to face all the negatively things all the towns people said about her, but at least it made herself and Pearl more stronger physical and mentally. Hester worked hard to get the towns people to respect her, the little bit they do by making clothes for the whole town except for brides because they were thought to be pure.
The Puritans frown upon Hester and Pearl, the product of Hester’s sin. The public humiliation and obstacles Hester goes through invigorates her with strength to triumph. On the day Hester is led to the town scaffold, the townspeople, who had no sympathy for her, taunted her with cruel and harsh words. When Hester is questioned about who was Pearl’s
After Sal’s father realizes that Sugar is not coming back they move from Kentucky to Ohio. Sal’s neighbor is Phoebe, they become best friends. Sal found out that Phoebe’s mother has left her family also. Sal’s gram and gramps take her across- country to Idaho in hope of finding her mother for her birthday. On their trip Sal talked about her friend Phoebe and her growing romance with Ben Finney.
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She was forced to wear a public symbol of shame and was shunned to the outskirts of society. The Puritan society is the true antagonist of this story because they alienated her from their culture and branded her as an adulteress. Throughout the entire book, Hawthorne follows Hester and the other characters in the aftermath of Hester’s punishment. Except, couldn’t this of been avoided if she was never punished at all? The extent of Hester’s punishment ran into the very fabric of the town.