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2016 Color and name symbolism In The Scarlet Letter, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes many colors and names to symbolize moods. In The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne uses the color black to symbolize evil and sin. Hawthorne uses black to show the pain that Arthur Dimmesdale endured because of the sin that he had committed. Hawthorne also uses the color black to show a similarity between the black man and sin. The black man in the forest represents the evil spirits or the devil that is perceived…
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of the main colors within Hawthorne’s works is red. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories red is a meaning of sin or specifically in the The Scarlet Letter it is symbolized as adultery. “On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread, appeared the letter A”(Scarlet 40). The letter “A” in The Scarlet Letter was given to Hester because of her own wrong doings. Hester was a married woman coming to America and her husband…
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Symbolism of Colors Nathaniel Hawthorne in the novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850), asserts that the color red represents passion and sin, the color black represents pure evil, and the color white represents light and change in The Scarlet Letter (1850). Hawthorne supports his assertion by illustrating the colors red in diverse manners and occurrences in the story such as the red rose bush and the red Scarlet Letter, the color black through the black weeds, and the color white when the white light…
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great novels such as The Scarlet Letter use many great symbols to bring the story to life. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbols, such as Pearl, the scarlet letter, and the comparison of light and darkness to represent good and evil, as a way to show the corruption of the puritan lifestyle. Pearl in The Scarlet Letter…
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woven tale The Scarlet Letter, his characters create a parallel theme with the Biblical story of Original Sin. The infamous witch trials had taken place more than hundred years earlier, the events still hung over the town and made a long lasting impression on the young Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter is a book based on sin, guilt, conflict between emotions and intellect, nature of evil, discrimination, and puritan society in Boston from the seventeenth-century. The Scarlet letter is a gothic…
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Michaela Williams Mr. Juhasz English IV AP 23 Feb. 2014 The Scarlet Letter Book Report Plot Summary The book, The Scarlet Letter, starts with a 34 page introduction to the origin of how the novel came to be. The narrator, who stays anonymous, was an examiner of the Custom House in Salem, Massachusetts, the city in which the story is set. The narrator states, “But one idle and rainy day, it was my fortune to make a discovery of some little interest.” He had started to go through many of the many collected…
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book The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to show the importance of the meaning of things. Although The Scarlet Letter has many symbols, one symbol that stands out is Pearl because she is the human symbol of adultery, she is the reminder of Hester’s sin, and she knows things she should not; which makes her a symbol of pantomath. The author uses Pearl as a symbol because she is the supernatural result of Hester and Dimmesdale’s affair. Over the course of The Scarlet Letter, the themes…
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The Scarlet Letter 1 Hawthorne uses the setting in Chapter one to set the mood for the story in two ways. The first is that the prison embodies the unyielding severity of puritan law: old, rusted, yet strong with an "iron-clamped oaken door." Puritan law is coated, in this account, in the rust of tradition and obsolete purpose. But despite the evolution of its modern society, the laws have not kept up. As a result, the door remains tightly shut and iron-clamped presenting a judgmental and condemning…
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affected by Puritanism in a big way. Everything they do has to do with their beliefs of Puritanism, for example, the way they dress, their punishments, what they believe in, etc. The characters in The Scarlet Letter are affected by Puritanism, but not as greatly as in The Crucible. The Scarlet Letter has to do with Puritanism, for example, in the way that they look at their ministers and reverends, the way they dress, their fear of Satan, etc. In the end, they are both affected by Puritanism. One…
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Sin, in the eyes of many, can only bring a person shame and misery; only few could possibly see sin as a blessing from God. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author presents sin as a fine line between good and evil, meaning it could be viewed as either one. Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, two lovers that share a single crime, are able to develop their own opinions of themselves, each other, and society as they strive to continue living on with guilt in their hearts.…
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