The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis Of The Characters
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, provides us with
intricate characters to analyze and evaluate. Hawthorne carefully
constructs his characters, giving them each different emotions, values,
physical attributes, and thus creating different souls. One sees character
development throughout t ....
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.... Prynne is not happy about finding his wife
convicted of being an adulteress. He feels that the other guilty party
should be up on the scaffold with her. His deep want to find the guilty
party, leads him to disguise his identity, and he becomes, Roger
Chillingworth. Hester agrees to keep his secret. The novel takes us
through the seven years that Hester keeps quiet. A reader of the novel
finds out early that Arthur Dimmesdale is the man Hester is trying to
protect.
One notices, that eve ....
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