Scarlet letter
The right and wrong of our life are determined by the moral rules of our cruel society. The author, Nathanel Hawthorne expresses this idea in one of his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter. Born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts; he lived with his widowed mother and two younger sisters, Maria Louisa and Elizabeth. He had the must pleasant and normal boyhood, but for the next 12 year he was absorbed by unhappiness and self-doubt as he tries to master the skill of writing. In 1837 he published Twice-Told Tales and obtained a steady income. Then he published The Scarlet Letter, and it brought him immediate recognition. The Scarlet Letter is a book that criticized the Puritan society of the era. The story told is about a woman named Hester Prynne who committed adultery with Arthur Dimmesdale in an unforgiving place. Hester was force by the church to wear the letter 'A' on her for the rest of her life as a reminder to the town-people of her immoral act. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth discovered that she had committed the immoral act with Dimmesdale. Then he sets himself ready for revenge because of the constant fighting between Dimmesdale and Chillingworth; they both eventually died. After their death Hester took her daugh
The Puritan church is the Puritan government, people have to obey and live by the ways of the church. Hester is one of the persons that challenged the church. The church has great power over Hester, and she has to do want ever the church tells her. Hester had to stand on the scaffold as the church told her so, "With almost a serene deportment, therefore, Hester Prynne though his portion of her ordeal, and came to a sort of scaffold, at the western extremity of the market place." (p.62) Hester kept herself away from the Puritan church, and it was her first step to overcome it. "Little accustomed in her long seclusion from society, to measure her ideas of right and wrong by any standard external to herself, Hester saw-or seemed to see-that there lay a responsibility upon reference to the clergyman which she owed to no other, nor to the whole world besides." (p.154) Hester was out of the church's reach. Eventually Hester overcame the church by first overcoming the scarlet letter put on her. "The scarlet letter had not done its office." (p.160) Now Hester has to overcome another fear that is her husband. Her love for Dimmesdale gave Hester the power to overcome the fear that she had toward Chillingworth, But that change didn't happen in an instant. At first Hester obeyed Chillingworth even though she didn't want to. Hester kept Chillingworth's identity a secret becau
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Approximate Word count = 932
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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