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• PRYNNE Hester. Personnage de Nathaniel Hawthome

• The Scarlett letter

  The Scarlet Letter is an american romantic novel of fiction, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in the mid-nineteenth century. It is considered to be his best work. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer from the nineteen century. He is a dark romantic (anti-transcendentalist) which means that he explores the psychological effects of guilt and sin, madness, derangement in the human psyche. The Scarlett letter is marked by this exploration. The st...

• Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Essay

  and her husband is supposed to meet her there. She finds comfort in the person of Minister Arthur Dimmesdale, and let herself be tempted by an act of passion, and love that gave birth to a « sinful » child. Then Hester has to carry the burden of her shame embodied in the Scarlet Letter, and in Pearl. Hester follows what we can call natural laws : Roger Prynne (aka Chillingworth) is described as old, deformed, and a man of science confine in his books, whereas Hester is young...

• From The Scarlet Letter - anthology.

  “Mercy on us, goodwife,” exclaimed a man in the crowd, “is there no virtue in woman, save what springs from a wholesome fear of the gallows? That is the hardestword yet! Hush, now, gossips; for the lock is turning in the prison-door, and here comes Mistress Prynne herself.” The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into the sunshine, the grim and grisly presence ofthe town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff...

• the scarlet letter chap 21

  Heste r is n 't m en ta lly w it h t h e P urit a n s a n ym ore . W e c a n a ls o lin k t h ese t w o q uo te s w it h   an o th er s till p .2 11 " ​ I t h ad t h e e ffe ct o f m akin g h er f a d e p ers o nally o ut o f s ig ht a n d   outlin e;. .." ,​ b esid es b ein g li f e le ss, t h e n arra to r t e lls u s t h at s h e's b eco m in g in vis ib le . T his   quo te m ake s u s u n d ers ta n d t h at H este r f o rg ets h ers e lf a n d is n o lo ng er c a p...