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Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a novel seemingly comprised of numerous themes and movements. ... The Scarlet Letter takes a path from theme to theme, movement to movement, toward a culmination of Hawthorne’s ideas, existing as an anti-transcendentalist novel. ... These ideas are found throughout the Letter. ...
The Scarlet Letter has many romantic ideas, possibly stemming from the fact that it was written during the Romantic era. The book contains mystical aspects of romanticism such as the burning sensation the narrator felt when he brought the scarlet “A” to his chest, to the meteor in the sky that supposedly took shape of an “A”. Another romantic idea, valuing intuition and emotion over reason, is found in the Letter. ... This is evidence that The Scarlet Letter is a Romantic novel.
If one were to call The Scarlet Letter a romantic novel, he would not be looking at the bigger picture. ... Hester takes off her scarlet letter, which symbolizes her wrong doing (created by the Puritanical community), and the burst of sunshine represented nature’s acceptance of the new Hester.
Approximate Word count = 805
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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