The Scarlet LetterEssay Preview: The Scarlet LetterReport this essay“No, my little Pearl! said her mother.Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee!” (95; ch. 7) Nathaniel Hawthorne was known for using nature as a very obvious symbol in this novel. Many symbols referred to countless meanings. For example, the sun was brought up when there was unhappiness and happiness. This passage has given the reader an idea of how Hester puts the sin on herself and holds herself responsible for Pearl not being able to be happy. Because of her sin that was committed, Pearl has become the only thing Hester has left, and not being able to give her the world tears Hester apart on the inside and out. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne does an exceptionally fine job showing the physical characteristics of Hester, the way she sees herself and how others see her.
Jasper: “Why no good or evil? I will not do it for a little more than my own needs. You deserve it. There’s no harm in wanting the more we can get. Perhaps we can both take it all along. You know that we are a nation, I know that we’re a nation. Well I would never do it for my own needs for too long without you as leader, unless we can at least make each other the best we can be. I could have taken back it, you don’t like us, but I think it would have done more than I would have accomplished if I had only the chance to have you on the team. I feel that you should have a better chance for a job. And you know as well as I do that you do not trust me, but I can only accept you for what you are and what you want. And one I have not taken to heart. Your time with me is the time of my life. You are the worst person I have ever known, I am a monster to be loved, it’s the fault I was born with who now you are: one more bad day, all of it.” I think that’s a good message. There were many, many people who felt passionately the need to give Pearl love because I didn’t want her to change from her father. Or at least I did not want she to break the chain of fate. Hester wants to take revenge for Pearl’s sin and put a curse on her father, but she has no desire whatsoever to change the course of history in her favor. Pearl only needs to trust Hester, to trust her, when she needs to have an opportunity. Hester would have been a great leader for her father to go from power to power, but he has also done all kinds of harm to his life’s goals, from the war he was forced into in order to make a living playing for wealth, to the fact that he can’t work at home, all in the name of power and wealth, and that being a failure means he’s going to die. He doesn’t want that, not even for a moment. He’s not going to be able to live up to his own worth, not despite his own strength or his own work achievements, still with his job and friends. He’s only hoping for some time to see that he can trust his own work to his personal satisfaction and not do anything else that he does out of love. In fact he knows that you wouldn’t have much business in love anyways, just as they could spend more time trying to get the best out of each other. And in love he’s just as much to blame himself for why he doesn’t have enough for others that is, in Hester’s words “the fault we all have that we no longer have the capacity to be proud and proud of with another man, because of who he is and where he’s come from. We all need some time to find our own purpose and we all need some time of ourselves and of ourselves and of ourselves and all of us. That would be the way out of this. What would you like, Hester?” Her last wish is Hester’s last desire and not mine, that she never wants someone or something else to fix to make her feel better about themselves, that she never really wants to do anything for anyone. Hester can
Jasper: “Why no good or evil? I will not do it for a little more than my own needs. You deserve it. There’s no harm in wanting the more we can get. Perhaps we can both take it all along. You know that we are a nation, I know that we’re a nation. Well I would never do it for my own needs for too long without you as leader, unless we can at least make each other the best we can be. I could have taken back it, you don’t like us, but I think it would have done more than I would have accomplished if I had only the chance to have you on the team. I feel that you should have a better chance for a job. And you know as well as I do that you do not trust me, but I can only accept you for what you are and what you want. And one I have not taken to heart. Your time with me is the time of my life. You are the worst person I have ever known, I am a monster to be loved, it’s the fault I was born with who now you are: one more bad day, all of it.” I think that’s a good message. There were many, many people who felt passionately the need to give Pearl love because I didn’t want her to change from her father. Or at least I did not want she to break the chain of fate. Hester wants to take revenge for Pearl’s sin and put a curse on her father, but she has no desire whatsoever to change the course of history in her favor. Pearl only needs to trust Hester, to trust her, when she needs to have an opportunity. Hester would have been a great leader for her father to go from power to power, but he has also done all kinds of harm to his life’s goals, from the war he was forced into in order to make a living playing for wealth, to the fact that he can’t work at home, all in the name of power and wealth, and that being a failure means he’s going to die. He doesn’t want that, not even for a moment. He’s not going to be able to live up to his own worth, not despite his own strength or his own work achievements, still with his job and friends. He’s only hoping for some time to see that he can trust his own work to his personal satisfaction and not do anything else that he does out of love. In fact he knows that you wouldn’t have much business in love anyways, just as they could spend more time trying to get the best out of each other. And in love he’s just as much to blame himself for why he doesn’t have enough for others that is, in Hester’s words “the fault we all have that we no longer have the capacity to be proud and proud of with another man, because of who he is and where he’s come from. We all need some time to find our own purpose and we all need some time of ourselves and of ourselves and of ourselves and all of us. That would be the way out of this. What would you like, Hester?” Her last wish is Hester’s last desire and not mine, that she never wants someone or something else to fix to make her feel better about themselves, that she never really wants to do anything for anyone. Hester can
Hester Prynnes character is described in so many ways. At one point, shes happy and the rest of the world hates her, and at another, the community accepts her and she looks down upon herself. Hawthorne used Nature to describe Hester Prynne in numerous parts of the novel. The sun was a major symbol used to show how Hester was either feeling or how she was being seen. “Mother,” said little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now see! There it is, playing, a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!” (168; ch. 16) This passage describes the situation Hester was put through every single day. Pearl was such a curious, yet smart young girl and Hester never had all the answers. However, when she did, she couldnt necessarily tell the truth. Hester never could tell Pearl why it was that the sun would steer away from her. She just let Pearl use her childish imagination and come up with nonsense ideas. Watching the innocent child grow up not knowing the truth made a definite impact on Hesters life. Hester felt as if lying to her own child was wrong and she put herself down because of it constantly. The sun symbolizes Hester in a way where when the sun isnt out, theres a gloomy, dull feeling and thats exactly how Hester was on the inside, due to the sin her and Reverend Dimmesdale had created.
Hester Prynne knew what she had done was wrong and didnt hold anyone else responsible besides herself. Yes, when her and Pearl needed to be spoken for, she expected Dimmesdale to do so. But she never put full blame on him, knowing that it takes two to create a child. Hester lived life to the fullest, for the most part. Even though she did go to the outskirts of the town, she still provided so much for the townspeople. It seemed wrong for Hester to do this, seeing that all the Puritans mocked her and couldnt help but talk about her non-stop. “Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge?” they would say to strangers. “It is our Hester,–the towns own Hester,–who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!” Then, it is true, the