The Scarlet Letter

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The Scarlet Letter

• Discuss
• Skim the Story
• Analyse
• Hesters Character

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Discuss Think about the words with the first
letter of A

• about /above
• Able/Ability/admirable/angel/amaze
• Angry/adultery

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Look through the relationship in the story
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Analyse Hesters Character

• Some details from the novel support to analyse
  Hesters Character

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First in the scaffold

• Hesters husband, a scholar much older than she
  is, sent her ahead to America, but he never
  arrived in Boston. The consensus is that he has
  been lost at sea. While waiting for her husband,
  Hester has apparently had an affair, as she has
  given birth to a child. She will not reveal her
  lovers identity, however, and the scarlet
  letter, along with her public shame, is her
  punishment for her sin and her secrecy. On this
  day Hester is led to the town scaffold and
  harangued by the town fathers, but she again
  refuses to identify her childs father. Form
  here the author reveals the problems with the
  Puritan conception of sin. we can see the
  traditional rule of Puritan meanwhile we can see
  Hester is a brave woman who can face to the
  Puritan management to defend her idea love and
  to protect her lover

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Second After the punishment in prisonHester
work hard to help other people to release her
crime

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The second meaning of A

• Hesters charitable deeds and quiet humility
  have earned her a reprieve from the scorn of the
  community. People would like to consider her as a
  warmhearted and kindly woman .The symoblize of
  the A transfer from the meaning of adultery to
  able gradually.

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Third To protect her lover again

• Hester can see that the ministers condition
  is worsening, and she resolves to intervene. She
  goes to Chillingworth and asks him to stop adding
  to Dimmesdales self-torment
• Althouth Hester had paid a lot for the love
  between Her and Dimmesdale ,she seems to nerver
  regret to loving Dimmesdale. She beared all of
  the public shame by herself. Instead of blaming
  the minister she always trying to protect or help
  him.maybe this is the true love of selflessness
• They will take a ship sailing from Boston in
  four days. Both feel a sense of release, and
  Hester removes her scarlet letter and lets down
  her hair
• chasing for true love and freedom

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The new conception of A

• After Dimmesdaltdeath ,Many years later, Hester
  returns alone, still wearing the scarlet letter,
  to live in her old cottage and resume her
  charitable work. When Hester dies, she is buried
  next to Dimmesdale. The two share a single
  tombstone, which bears a scarlet A. To her,
  running away or removing the letter would be an
  acknowledgment of societys power over her she
  would be admitting that the letter is a mark of
  shame and something from which she desires to
  escape. Instead, Hester stays, refiguring the
  scarlet letter as a symbol of her own experiences
  and character. Her past sin is a part of who she
  is to pretend that it never happened would mean
  denying a part of herself. Thus, Hester very
  determinedly integrates her sin into her life.

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• The scarlet letter is meant to be a symbol of
  shame, but instead it becomes a powerful symbol
  of identity to Hester. The letters meaning
  shifts as time passes. Originally intended to
  mark Hester as an adulterer, the A eventually
  comes to stand for Able. and Admirable
• In Geoffrey Chaucer work The Canterbury Tales
• The nun wears the A to show her charity and
  honorable

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conclusion

• Infront of the society Hester is a brave woman
  who can face to the Puritan management to defend
  her idea love, and can do what other women can
  not do,she want to have freedom in her life.
• Infront of the difficulty Hester has a strong
  determination and courage.Infront of the
  community ,Hester is a very kind,charity and
  woman.
• Infront of love ,Hester is a selflessness woman
  who want to have a perfect love even though it
  costs her whole life .
• In conclusion hester is an able and admirable
  lady or maybe an angel .

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• That is all ,thank you very much!