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THE SCARLET LETTER (1850)
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter is one of the most important novels of the American Romantic literature. ... In The Custom House, the prologue of The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne refers to Major William Hathorne, his great-great-great grandfather as a persecutor of Quakers. ... Such relationships had effect on his works which are full of symbols as we will see in The Scarlet Letter.
Because of the reasons stated above, there is little doubt that the narrator of The Scarlet Letter is the author himself. ... ) that Scarlet Letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. ... The Bostonian community condemns her of adultery, forcing her to wear a letter “A” for “adulteror”, on her bosom. ... His anger becomes stronger when he sees the letter “A” as a wound on Dimmesdale’s chest. ... She is the real scarlet letter, the one who really does not let Hester stop thinking of her sin. ...
Her questions about the letter lead us to think about other meanings for the “A”, as it will be shown later. ... ” (Hester, p 85)
“ - ‘Dost thou know, child, wherefore thy mother wears this letter? ... ’ (p 161)
Climax - There are at least two climaxes The Scarlet Letter . ... As Dimmesdale watches a meteor drawing the letter "A" in the sky, he becomes aware of his role in Hesters sin. ...
Symbols:
· The scarlet letter - Adultery, Alienation, Alone, Altruism, Angel, America (born in the sin of war), and Author, which do not exclude any other relevant word that starts with the letter “A”. ... The gray clothing made her neutral while the contrasting scarlet letter was more visible than her. ...
From all symbolic elements in this novel, the change of meanings of the scarlet letter througout the story was a highlight. ...
What is written in the paragraph above would lead me to an in-depth analysis of the social and psychologycal themes in The Scarlet Letter.
Approximate Word count = 1775
Approximate Pages = 7.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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