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Whole Character Of Reverend Dimmesdale
1,664 wordsReverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, proves to be a sinner against man, against God and most importantly against himself because he has committed adultery with Hester Prynne, resulting in an illegitimate child, Pearl. His sinning against himself, for which he ultimately paid the price of death, proved to be more harmful and more destructive than this sin of the flesh, and his sin against God. Socrates said, "Know thyself", and Shakespear...
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Confession Of Arthur Dimmesdale
1,407 wordsThe End of a Coward In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the cause of tragedy is centered upon the rigid Puritan society that leads to great consequences in the lives of sinners. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale's act of adultery greatly affects their lives and its result greatly alters their presence in the community. Hester handles her situation with as much dignity and pride as possible, confessing and bearing the punishments amiably. Dimmesdale, on the other hand, acts in a differ...
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Plans Of Hester And Dimmesdale
1,313 wordsAlthough Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is primarily the story of an adulteress atoning for her sin and conquering the insignia which brings torment to her spirit, the quest of the partner in her sin, Arthur Dimmesdale, is no less important and even more painful. His quest, simply phrased, is to glorify God through his priesthood and expiate his sin of adultery - to save his soul - while protecting his reputation. To do so, he tries to continue day by day to do the work of the Lord whi...
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Hester And Dimmesdale
1,504 wordsThe Scarlet Letter: Tales of Sin and Confession By: Zack Phillips " The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent!" This quote from Jean Baptiste Racin summarizes The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne in one sentence. The novel's main focus is on three main characters and how the sins they commit affect their lives in the strict Puritan town of Boston around the year 1642. Hawthorne was very knowledgeable of his Puritan ancestry and shows it by incorporating some important thoughts ...
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Arthur Dimmesdale And Ethan Frome
2,122 wordsArthur Dimmesdale of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Ethan Frome, the main character of Wharton's classic Ethan Frome, though separated by over a century of time, find themselves in remarkably similar situations-a bleak existence, punctuated only be intermittent glimpses into a life that might have been. However, a difference in character leads each to ultimately confront their respective situation in opposing ways. Ironically, the one seeking a new, clean life is met by death and the one seeking...
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Hester Prynne's Secret Sin
1,423 wordsScarlet Letter-Secret Theme One of the main themes in The Scarlet Letter is that of the secret. The plot of the book is centered around Hester Prynne's secret sin of adultery. Nathaniel Hawthorne draws striking parallelism between secrets held and the physical and mental states of those who hold them. The Scarlet Letter demonstrates that a secret or feeling kept within slowly engulfs and destroys the soul, while a secret made public can allow a soul to recover and even strengthen. When a secret ...
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Hawthorne Doom Dimmesdale
1,436 wordsThe Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities of Life Irish novelist Brian Moore observed, 'There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves' (Bookshelf 95). From Hollywood movie stars to professional athletes, people have and will continue to lead false lives, under the public spotlight, concealing their personal travails. In literature, the preceding statement has held true numerous times, in works such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scar...
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Goodman Brown And Mr Hooper
865 wordsThe Bondage of Sin After reading three stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, The Ministers Black Veil, and Young Goodman Brown, a topic of Hawthorne viewpoint on the bondage of sin arises, as the subject is so intently tied into each of the above stories. Hawthorne insinuates that within every human soul there lurks a dark evil side: a side that cant resist the temptations that come to pass in every mans life, which lead to a decline in health. However, he selects characters in eac...
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Hester And Dimmesdale
1,638 wordsThe Scarlet Letter shows many types of sin. Some is only sin in the Puritan eye, some is internally blamed sin and some is sin only defined back in the time period of pre-Romanticism. Three main characters; Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth are the 'sinners' of the Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorn gives each one very different a consequence and remedy for each ones sin. Hester is publicly punished right away, Dimmesdale has to dwell on...
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Pearl And Hester
604 wordsI read The Scarlet Letter and I failed the Accelerated Reader test. It was worth points and the reading level was. In this story Hester was an adulteress and had to wear a scarlet letter because she wouldnt admit to whom she had the affair with. Her daughter was Pearl and her father was Dimmesdale. They lived in Salem, Massachusetts in times of Puritans so the sin of having an affair was unacceptable. Dimmesdale was a Reverend and he wanted Hester to admit the affair, but she would not. Her husb...
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Hester From The Sins
599 wordsArthur Dimmesdale Minister Dimmesdale plays a very unique and very ironic role in this novel. Mr. Dimmesdale is a minister, a man of god. Moreover, he is not only a healer of sin, but pure gentleman representing god. His stereotypical role shows his purity, but it is very ironic that it is Minister Dimmesdale himself who is the sinner; himself the adulterer. In the opening chapters, he tries to mask himself from his sin, wearing the face of a pure man, trying to heal Hester from the sins she has...
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Hester S Life
3,869 wordsA Reflection on Sin and Repentance Yin Hua Nathaniel Hawthorne is certainly at his best when writing about sin, the supernatural and the New England past. Among all his works dealing with sin, The Scarlet Letter is unanimously considered to be his most successful attempt. In this nineteenth-century American classic, the author is predominantly concerned with the moral, emotional and psychological effect of sin on the people in general and those complicated in it in particular. What baffles my be...
