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... In a letter to his mother in 1821, Hawthorne came upon the subject of his career. ... Hawthorn began his novel he would call The Scarlet Letter. ...
“In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne approaches the problem of the individual and the human predicament in terms of the Puritan experience. ... Some readers believed that the moralizing found in The Scarlet Letter as a little heavy-handed. ... It is in this tale that Hawthorne brings out the scarlet letter “A,” which stands for adultery. ... Hawthorne incorporates many old characters from his previous writings into The Scarlet Letter. In a critical essay, Eileen Morey states how she believes Hawthorne found characters for his book The Scarlet Letter:
. ... In 1837 edition of Twice Told Tales includes the forebears of two Scarlet Letter characters. ...
With the contribution of themes The Scarlet Letter is considered one of Hawthorne’s masterpieces. ... In The Scarlet Letter, Pear, Hester’s illegitimate daughter, and the scarlet letter “A. ...
Pearl is know to contribute to much of the symbolism found in The Scarlet Letter. ... Readers as well as critics have deliberated the role of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. ... Andola remarks, “Without her mother’s sin, Pearl could not exist, nor could she exist with out her mother’s love, both of which are symbolized in the scarlet letter A and in Pearl herself. ... She was one aspect of the scarlet letter come to life. ... ” Being that this is true, it will give the letter “A” a positive as well as negative aspect. ... As a symbol as well as life she is an offspring of Hester and an extension of the scarlet A. ...
Yet another critic states Pearls reference to the scarlet letter A by stating: “Like the letter on her mother’s breast she is an emblem of sin. ... ”
“In the forest scene when Hester takes off the scarlet letter, Pearl becomes frantically disturbed and won’t quiet down until Hester has it back on her dress, as if by discarding the letter Hester has discarded Pearl. ... “Much of the meaning of the scarlet letter resides in Pearl because she is the result of Hester’s adultery. Hester dresses the chid in scarlet, presenting her as a little scarlet letter. ...
An “object” that Pearl would symbolize is the scarlet letter A. ... “To Get at the many means of the scarlet letter, it is useful to see, first, how it is represented in the child Pearl, who , the author tells us is a scarlet letter herself. Then the decision will turn to the letter’s meaning for the community, and finally, to its specific relationship to Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. ... “But even that physical letter is not a unitary and stable object. ... “He [Hawthorne] shows this by introducing the letter to us at a point when it’s meaning is already being questioned, and never from first to last allowing it to be firmly attached to any single meaning. ... The “meaning” for the letter A, not only changes in the beginning but throughout the story as well. ... As a result the meanings for the scarlet letter A continues to grow. ... the letter will mean what ever people can be persuaded to believe that it means; it has no fixed and permanent references. ... This stresses how the scarlet letter A can be both positive and negative.
The letter A represents a positive aspect in many ways.
Approximate Word count = 2799
Approximate Pages = 11.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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