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        <title><![CDATA[Dimmesdale, Hester, and Chillingworth all relate to the consequences of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dimmesdale, Hester, and Chillingworth all relate to the consequences of sin and guilt. Each is suffering in their own way for choices they have made. Hester is shunned for her perceived sin. Chillingsworth becomes increasingly deformed physically and mentally, as he sucks the life from his victim. Dimmesdale grows weaker with every passing day, crippled by his overwhelming guilt for betraying his love and his flock at the same time.
Hester...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is particular about the publication of introductory to The Scarlet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is particular about the publication of introductory to The Scarlet Letter does the author claim has caused an "unprecedented excitement"]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Scarlet Letter, one clue that may indicate that Rev. Arthur...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Scarlet Letter, one clue that may indicate that Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl is illustrated when Hester Prynne appears on the scaffold for the first time. She appears with the baby in her arms and the scarlet letter sewn on her dress. As the crowd gathers to taunt and gawk at Hester, Dimmesdale offers a passionate plea for her to not let the father of the baby go unpunished and to let the people know who also sinned. To...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hawthorne's views as a Dark Romantic ruled his writing and much of his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hawthorne's views as a Dark Romantic ruled his writing and much of his personal life.  Contemporaries such as Emerson liked Hawthorne but felt sorry for him because of his dark perspective of mankind.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's belief that human nature is inherently evil drives most of the novel's characters and all of the plotline. Chillingworth is the epitome of most Dark Romantics' view of human nature.  He was once an average but...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Scarlet Letter, what are some clues that illustrate Dimmesdale is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Scarlet Letter, what are some clues that illustrate Dimmesdale is Pearl's father?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:46:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Scarlet Letter, what are some examples of the author's Dark...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Scarlet Letter, what are some examples of the author's Dark Romantic roots from the text?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:04:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," as Hester stands,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," as Hester stands, scorned, upon the scaffold before the sanctimonious Puritans, she significantly

clasp[s] the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress.

From the beginning of the novel, Pearl is inextricably connected to the scarlet letter. And as an infant while...]]></description>
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The first thing Pearl saw in her infancy was the scarlet letter....]]></title>
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The first thing Pearl saw in her infancy was the scarlet letter. As a baby she even reached up and touched the letter.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:56:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Pearl notice as a baby?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Pearl notice as a baby?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:11:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Heralded as one of the greatest writers of American literature,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Heralded as one of the greatest writers of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne did, indeed, employ literary techniques in his writing of The Scarlet Letter.  Here are some examples from Chapter 13:
Parallelism (the repetition of words or phrases or other grammatical structures) is found in the following sentences:

She never battled with the public, bus submitted, uncompliningly, to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it, in...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are there similies, metaphors, allusions, personification or parallel...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are there similies, metaphors, allusions, personification or parallel constructions used in Chapter 13 of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is in his use of symbols in The Scarlet Letter that Hawthorne has...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is in his use of symbols in The Scarlet Letter that Hawthorne has made one of the most significant contributions to American literature.  Certainly, his novel is regarded by many as the first symbolic novel to have been written in the United States.  In fact, it is Hawthorne's use of the symbols of the scarlet A and Pearl that have come to define symbolism as we know it:  A symbol means what it is and more; it functions both literally...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:40:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hawthorne assigns a changing nature to Hester's letter; so he is less...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hawthorne assigns a changing nature to Hester's letter; so he is less obvious about its meaning.  Additionally, the letter has different meanings to various people.  While it is a reminder to Hester of her sin, it eventually represents (to others) her caring nature.  Some, who are newer to Boston, do not even know what the letter meant originally, and others see it as an A for angel.
Hawthorne wants readers to see how humans can control how...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:28:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In regards to The Scarlet Letter, why does Hawthorne not tell us what...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In regards to The Scarlet Letter, why does Hawthorne not tell us what the scarlet letter means as he does with many of his other color symbols?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:47:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has already been partially answered.  Please see the link...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This question has already been partially answered.  Please see the link below.
http://www.enotes.com/scarlet-letter/q-and-a/how-did-people-natheniel-hawthorne-time-feel-about-117733
However, in regards to a comparison to our society's view of guilt, sin, crime, and adultery, the answer depends on where one lives in the world.  For example, for someone living in a country which practices sharia law (religious law that allows for execution for...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:50:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do characters in the book The Scarlet Letter respond to guilt, sin,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do characters in the book The Scarlet Letter respond to guilt, sin, crime, and adultery compared to today's society?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:59:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chillingworth has a dual reason for hating and punishing Dimmesdale: ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chillingworth has a dual reason for hating and punishing Dimmesdale:  he committed adultery with his wife, Hester, and he has the admiration and love of his community, something that Chillingworth could never have.
Adultery was considered a terrible crime in Puritan society.  Even though Hester considered herself unmarried, as she thought her husband had abandoned her, she was still to live as a married woman.
Dimmesdale was his own worst...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:39:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chillingworth's obvious reason for "punishing" Dimmesdale is because the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chillingworth's obvious reason for "punishing" Dimmesdale is because the minister "stole" Hester from Chillingworth by committing adultery with her.  In Puritan culture, this is an egregious crime, and the townspeople would have agreed that punishment for Dimmesdale was necessary if they had known that he had committed adultery.
Secondly, Chillingworth mentions to Hester that all the years that he has spent "torturing" Dimmesdale have changed...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:36:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Scarlet Letter, why does Chillingworth think he has a double...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Scarlet Letter, why does Chillingworth think he has a double reason for punishing Dimmesdale?
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:33:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your question can be answered in two ways.  If you are referring to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your question can be answered in two ways.  If you are referring to Hawthorne's time period of the mid-1800s, then Hawthorne's contemporaries had diverse views of the human condition, especially when it regards the idea of sin.  For example, Hawthorne was a member of a group of writers called the Dark Romantics (Poe and Melville are also categorized in this group).  The Dark Romantics believed that man's nature is basically evil and that he...]]></description>
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