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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter deals with the Puritan Boston and the treatment of the sin of adultery in that socio-cultural context. The aim of this paper is to explicate how Hester and her daughter Pearl are punished for their connection.
The Scarlet Letter study guide contains a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne about a woman who is branded as an adulteress. The narrative begins in 1642. Hester Prynne stands trial before the town magistrates...
In “Hawthorne, modernity, and the literary sketch,” Kristie Hamilton establishes the meaning and value of Hawthorne’s “sketches” – those open form, loosely structured texts, neither story nor novel, which typically feature encounters between a wandering, observing, or imagining narrator and the fleeting phenomena of everyday life.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adulteress Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is wracked with guilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge.
29 gru 2022 · In this article, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, which is set in the Puritan society of Boston in the middle of the seventeenth century, is subjected to a close and in-depth analysis.
Hawthorne made Hester an adulteress specifically to express the author s sense that to be a male writer in his culture "was necessarily to be an adulteress or feminized adulterer of the truth" (41).
