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Article: "Hawthorne's Black Man: Image of Social Evil"

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Article: "Hawthorne's Black Man: Image of Social Evil"

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Hawthorne's use of the Black man is seen as hidden throughout the text. As he is never seen directly, it is said that Hawthorne had used the Black Man as more of a psychological scare. No real evil is truly revealed and no evil is intended to truly exist. There is also room for the possibility that the symbols for evil that are generally used by a Puritan society can also symbolize the unavoidable evil in any society known to exist. The central image of evil within this Puritan Community is found within the Black man. He also uses the Black Man in the point of views of psychological realities as well as social ones. The social realities showing how the spread of such evil can affect a whole town.

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The "black man" within the Scarlet Letter is a crucial part of the the story a gives much more meaning to the story as a whole. It is so crucial as it represents and coincides with so many different things within the story. For one, the main thing which it represents is the Devil which at the time was at the forefront due to a new found focus of religion. It also represents Chillingsworth and his Devil like tendencies, which becomes essential to understanding his character and sinister motives.

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The Black Mans Meaning and Purpose Cont... 

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An object in which the Black Man symbolizes is the Scarlet Letter itself. It does so as Hester believes this to be a "Black Mans" mark, most likely due to the torment it has brought her. Overall the Devil within the story raises the question of peoples motives, the choice whether to be evil or not, and helps understand characters and situations within the story.

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"...the Blackman that comely Hester Prynne should make one” (Hawthorne, 116). This part of the book occurs when Hester is asked by Mrs. Hibbins whether she would want to come to the forest with her. Hester declines as she must watch Pearl. This highlights that the Black man is also a manifestation of ones sins and the evil such as the devil, in which Hester declines to "make one".

"...and how this ugly Black Man offers his book and an iron pen to everybody that meets him here among the trees...then he sets his mark on their bosoms!  Didst thou ever meet the Black Man, Mother?” (Hawthorne 177)" This quote displays the moment in which Pearl tells Hester the stories she has heard about the Black man. She does this somewhat sarcastically as their is an obvious connection between Hester mark and the black man which Pearl sees, and is playing with. This helps link the Black man directly to the scarlet letter as well as share its sinister and crude meaning.

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“Hawthorne's Black Man: Image of Social Evil.” Taylor & Francis, www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00144940903250284

McMahon, Susan, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne). Sundance Publishers & Distributors, 1994.

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" Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?,"(Hawthorne, 74). This is one of the earlier mentions of the Black Man. This demonstrates the likeness of Chillingsworth to the devil or "Black Man  as Chillingsworth  mocks Hester in a Devilish and crude manner.

"Come away, Mother! Come away, or the yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already. Come away, Mother or he will catch you! (Hawthorne, 131). This is showing the impact that the "black man", the devil, has on the people in the town. They all live their lives revolved around, and running from the "black man".