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Post by John Cautero on Aug 17, 2014 22:23:35 GMT
In the beginning of the novel, The Scarlet Letter, the letter "A" signifies that Hester committed the crime of adultery. The letter A is meant to shame and shun her because of the crime she committed. Throughout the novel, the meaning of the letter A changes because it symbolized "able" or "Angel" instead of "adulterer." Hester decided to stay in Boston, and she started to be more active in society. She began to help the poor. She fed the poor and nursed sick people in the community. In the beginning of the novel, the letter "A" is a symbol of society's scorn, but that symbol changes to a positive symbol because Hester's behavior of helping the community and the poor.
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Post by Sayler Rodriguez on Aug 17, 2014 22:51:22 GMT
The scarlet letter that Hester wears is a symbol of the crime she committed. The townspeople look down on Hester and call her "naughty baggage" and one even says that "this woman has brought shame opun us all and ought to die". For a long time Hester is ashamed of her sin but as the book goes on and her daughter Pearl grows up, Hester becomes less hated and slowly the scarlet letter changes from maning adulterer to able. More time goes on and the story of the scarlet letter fades away the the people from town atually come to her for advice and to seek her company. She will always wear her mark of shame but the maning of the A changes throughout the novel to take a more positive meaning.
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Post by Tyler Zeemer on Aug 17, 2014 23:24:58 GMT
In the novel Hester Prynne boldly wears the Scarlet letter "A" on her chest embroidered with gold thread signifying that Hester accepts the consequences of her "sin", however the letter itself stands for adultery and during the time was disapproved of by the Puritan community greatly. In addition to being disapproved by the Puritan community the symbol stood for shame and was meant to always remind Hester of the "sins" she committed. Therefore Hester was and outcast, moving to the edge of town with her newborn, attempting to continue her life. Later in the novel, the letter evolves into a positive meaning as the community's views change and Hester Prynne alongside her daughter are more accepted into the community.
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Post by Zoie Griffin on Aug 18, 2014 0:22:30 GMT
The meaning of the scarlet letter is Adultery. Hester wheres the "A" to symbolize her having intercourse with a married person who is not her husband. She is forced into wearing it on all of her clothing. Later on, Hester became pregnant with Pearl. The "A" on Hester changes throughout the book because Pearl does not want Hester to take off her "A". She believes that it makes her an individual. At first, the "A" shows that she is ungrateful and hated, but at the end, it shows that she is confident in what she did.
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Post by abeaudro on Aug 18, 2014 1:15:49 GMT
The Scarlet Letter that Hester Prynne is forced to wear stands for Adulteress. She's forced to wear the letter pinned to her dress because she was with another man while she was still technically married though her husband had not returned yet from his voyage. The letter is scarlet red and red can be associated with sin. Later on in the book the letter comes to stand for good because of the caring woman Hester has become. Strangers weren't initially aware of the letters meaning so they assumed that it had to be for something good
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Post by tristanwycallis on Aug 18, 2014 1:22:46 GMT
In the novel, Hester Prynne commits adultery. The scarlet "A" is a symbol for the crime she has committed and is a form of punishment for the crime. It is meant to bring shame. The letter changes over time in the novel,many people associate the A with able or angel. Hester's daughter Pearl becomes the tangible form of the letter.
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Post by ikejr11 on Aug 18, 2014 2:57:04 GMT
Hester our main character is required to wear a scarlet letter on her chest at all times. This is due to the fact that she has committed adultery. It functions in this novel by letting us no why she is in a way shunned by her her community, and it because she has the scarlet letter on her chest meaning she has committed adultery. Hester however in known throughout her community as a remarkable embroiderer, so over time the A begins to stand for "able."
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Post by bkristof on Aug 18, 2014 3:30:50 GMT
The main symbol of “The Scarlet Letter” is an ‘A’ that is red with gold thread surrounding it. This letter was worn in the book only because a sin had been committed. The sin in question was adultery which is why the letter scarlet letter was shaped like an ‘A.’ Hester Prynne is the character within the novel who chooses to wear this letter upon her chest to show the community that she did commit a sin, but that she accepted whatever came with the sin and that she was using the sin as a lesson for her future self, as well as the future of the town she lived in. This letter helped Hester accept the wrongdoing and allowed her to move on from it. In fact, along with wearing the letter, Hester performed good deeds in order to make the people happy. By the end of the novel, everyone was able to look at the scarlet letter and at Hester as things to be proud of. They realized that Hester was a strong woman who would stop at nothing to make them see that she cared for those she loved and only wanted what was best.
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Post by Karina perez on Aug 18, 2014 4:28:54 GMT
The Scarlet Letter means "adultery". Hester wears a "A" on her chest because she is one, she was a "sinner". She had relations with another man and got pregnant while she was married. Wearing the "A" on her chest is punishment for what she has done. Over time the people of the town start to associate the "A" on her chest with different meanings like "grace" because they view her as a kind and graceful person.
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Post by haydenwatson on Aug 18, 2014 18:16:28 GMT
The scarlet letter is an “A” which is worn on the person chest to signifies that the person wearing it has committed the act of adultery. The scarlet letter was to dehumanize Hester's so that people would treat her nothing more than a sinner. By the end of the book it symbolizes "angel"
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Post by Lance Madow on Aug 18, 2014 18:19:16 GMT
The meaning of Hester's Scarlet Letter initially means "Adultery". To into more detail of Hester's sin, she was "the wife of a certain learned man," "the doctor they call Roger Chillingworth." Roger sent Hester to Massachusetts but did not reunite with her, so he was rumored to be lost. While he was away, Hester had an affair with Boston's minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. But there was very clear evidence of the affair: Pearl. The "A" changes meaning throughout the book though. Governor Winthrop says that when a red meteor appeared it appeared as "a great red letter in the sky--the letter A." Later throughout the book the towns people say that the A is "said that it meant Able," portraying how strong Hester to suffer through all the humiliation and still do good. "The letter was the symbol of her calling." Hester's good qualities that began to surface and the positive deeds she had done, such as being kind to the poor and helpful to the sick, brought the town to realize her true character. "Such helpfulness was found in her,--so much power to do, and power to sympathize,--that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signifcation." So a letter that started off bad slowly became something good.
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Post by Brendan Mazza on Aug 18, 2014 19:33:30 GMT
The red A that Hester wears stands for adultery. This A changes Hester after having it on her for many years. When Arthur dies after confessing his relation with Hester, the meaning of the A is completely changed like the meteor that flashes in they sky that looked like a red a could stand for angel not adultery .
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Post by samc1 on Aug 18, 2014 22:17:21 GMT
The scarlet letter symbol was the letter A. The letter A signifies that she committed adultery and she wears it on her chest. It functions in the novel by that it symbolizes of what she has done by cheating on her husband and having an affair. The meaning changes over time by first everyone in the town thought of her as a bad person and adultery is a sin so they also thought of her as a sinner. Then after awhile the town starts to think differently of her and they start to think of her as a good and graceful person. Some things where it popped up is where when the letter A appears as a meteor going across the sky.
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Post by ryan on Aug 19, 2014 0:59:55 GMT
Throughout The Scarlet Letter a large portion of the symbolism and plot, being named in the title, is surrounding the scarlet "A" on Hester's chest. This form of shaming is normal for puritan communities for all sorts of crimes including adultery as shown by our main protagonist. Due to this title and shaming Hester tries to hide her actions being shamed into feeling as if the only way to keep living on is to leave her home and run from her past to Massachusetts and its puritan laws but over time Hester realizes that to live with herself is to accept her faults and takes the letter "A" to be apart of herself and who she became.
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Post by nate237 on Aug 19, 2014 1:01:36 GMT
an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread." In the beginning of the book when Hester had committed "adultery" the "A" on her chest stood for someone who had committed adultery previously. Hester took it upon herself to own her actions and makes it her own "with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread." Later, the meaning of the "A" changed to "Able" or "Angel".
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