scarlet letter

A detailed Summary of scarlet letter

The writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, portrays the Puritan

society in his novel, the "The Scarlet Letter". Through out

this novel, Hawthorne shows the reader certain aspects of

his opinion of the Puritan society. Hawthorne is constantly

judging the Puritans and it's standards of morality. A

number of Puritans do not agree with Hawthorne's novel, such

as how he portrays the society's methods of punishment and

it's hypocrisy. Hawthorne depicts his opinion through the

four, major characters of his novel, Hester Prynne, Arthur

Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl.

Hawthorne does not condone Hester's adultery, but he

does find it less serious a sin than the sins of Dimmesdale

and Chillingworth. He portrays the puritan women, who

believe in harsh punishments towards Hester, as

"hard-featured dames". " This woman has brought shame upon

himself by whipping himself in the closet until he was

Puritans experienced the life lacking indulgences,

Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken. The great scene

Hawthorne's judgment is shown through this kind-hearted

her own youth, living in an age which forced her to marry

sin is the "concealed sin", the sin of not acknowledging his

letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with

beautiful young women. She commits adultery and breaks the

developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her

of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had

but not to make her feel emotionally destroyed.

Pearl to like him as a father; finally at the end of the

disposition to the fact that he thought that their morals

Approximate Word count = 573
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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