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The Scarlet Letter - A Mirror of its Times Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter in 1850, however he depicted a story set in the Puritan Age that existed in the 16th & 17th century Boston, America. Due to 2 distinct times– the readers can see an influence of both periods in the book. Although commonly called a novel, The Scarlet Letter is actually a romance. Hawthorne makes this distinction because at the time he was writing, novels were supposed to deal with realistic representations of human experiences or external truths. Romances, on the other hand, were concerned with internal truths.
His works focus on the psychological concept of an innate human tendency toward sin. Hawthorne’s best know work is the novel The Scarlet Letter (1850) which, as does much of his work, takes place in seventeenth century New England Puritan society. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own Grandfather
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter focuses on the choices of paths Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth, the three main characters, whose decisions ultimately decide their fates in the conclusion of the book. The beginning of the book opens with Hester receiving her punishment for adultery. She is publicly displayed holding her baby for her punishment, yet she does not reveal who the father of the baby is. As she is displayed, she is asked by Dimmesdale, the minister and the father of the baby, whether she wants to reveal the other perpetrator to the crowd, but Hester refuses. Momentarily afterwards, Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, is seen in the crowd, and introduced.
Hawthorne’s Symbolic Method in “The Scarlet Letter” “The Scarlet Letter” is a romance of the 19 century which beyond any doubt, carries the reader into the story’s time and place. Moreover the description of characters, places and objects leads the reader to think, and sometimes only to perceive subconsciously, about the bygone society in which the story takes place. The narrative, even though has a fictional character, is a symbolic representation of historical facts in America’s earliest societies. The description of this context is not always explicit nor shows superficially the mode of life in puritan communities, but it explores into the puritan consciousness and questions its moral codes. Hawthorne uses the story of Hester Prynne to exemplify this.
Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Overview The “Scarlet Letter” is considered as one of the symbolic works in American literature. In Hawthorne's, use of symbolism is one of the significant contributions to the rise of American Literature. As suggested by Bilind in his essay, symbolism in the Scarlet Letter ,that Symbolism in the novel makes it puritan's allegory, leave very little important point that where from Hawthorne derives his symbolism? (Bilind,2011:7,8) This research concentrates on symbolic images in The Scarlet Letter to uncover their meaning and how the idea of Hawthorne’s novel focuses on symbols. One well-known example in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is where the scarlet letter "A" pinned to Hester Prynne's breast represents adultery.
Symbol and Interpretation in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. When Hester comes back to New England, Nathaniel Hawthorne comments upon her return with this sentence: she "resumed the symbol of which we have related so dark a tale." The letter, as a "symbol," is thus the central subject of the book; Hester's story itself only corresponds to the "small roll of dingy paper" that provides an insight into the elusive meaning of the letter. The reader is thus invited to consider the whole story as a progressive uncovering of the "truth" of a symbol that constitutes one of the most enigmatic elements of American literature. Critics over the years focused on this search for a hidden significance, and put forward their own interpretation of this "truth."
The story is told within the context of this sentence. Celie, the protagonist in the novel is silenced when she is denied agency in shaping her own life experiences. The silencing in its different forms begins, when Celie is raped and impregnated at the age of fourteen. Her silencing is also due to her dependency on patriarchal support, deprivation of education, has her self- esteem diminished and any form of love that she has or receives wiped out. The rape and other forms of silencing, also encountered by other women in the novel, make them embrace subjectivity and the patriarchal rule.
Austen’s first title for the novel was “First Impressions,” however following revisions to the novel, Austen ended up changing its name to Pride and Prejudice. When analysing the novel from a Post Colonial perspective, or that is to say, reading the novel while applying the theory of Post Colonialism to it, one can clearly see the importance of which first impressions in this book are meant to reflect the Post Colonial society that the story takes place in. The first place where we see first impressions used to reflect the Post Colonialism society that the novel is situated in is during the ball at Meryton. In regards to the structure of the novel, the ball is very essential seeing as it brings the two couples (Mr. Bingley and Ms. Jane, Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth) together for the first time. Here we are able to see the