Ambiguity in Scarlett Letter
In the world of literature, authors many times strive to create a perspicuous, easy to understand novel. To keep from becoming convoluted, they want to create a novel in which every aspect of the work including the plot, character, and symbols are clear-cut and definite. However, sometimes adding ambiguity provides a positive effect on a novel by allowing readers to interpret the book in their own way. Because readers can have several interpretations, each reader has the freedom to choose what [he or she] believes the author meant to convey. Thus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, a great American writer, creates one of his greatest works, The Scarlet Letter , through the use of ambiguity. Because he supposedly found a “mysterious package” with the manuscript of the story, Hawthorne tells this story from a indefinite point of view in which he himself offers several interpretations on certain matters and Hawthorne simply abandons some parts of his novel in ambiguity. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne creates remarkable novel through the use of ambiguity especially in the characters and the scarlet letter of the novel. To begin with, Hawthorne creates major ambiguity in several
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Approximate Word count = 794
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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