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A 6 page essay that discusses Nathaniel Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel The Scarlet Letter, which draws on his Puritan heritage, as it is set around the middle of the seventeenth century. The plot of the novel has tremendous psychological depth and complexity. Therefore, it can be analyzed from a variety of critical perspectives. This examination of The Scarlet Letter discusses the novel from a feminist, psychological and historical perspective. While these views of the novel are all different, consideration of each one adds a dimension to understanding the novel that gives a reader insight into the author's purpose, as well as the relevancy of the novel to contemporary society. No additional sources cited.
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can be analyzed from a variety of critical perspectives. The following examination of The Scarlet Letter discusses the novel from a feminist, psychological and historical perspective. While these views
of the novel are all different, consideration of each one adds a dimension to understanding the novel that gives a reader insight into the authors purpose, as well as the
relevancy of the novel to contemporary society. The Puritan society of colonial Boston was extremely strict, sanctimonious and patriarchal. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne differentiates between genuine religious piety and
assumed self-righteousness that makes a great display of adhering to the letter of the law, and the scriptures, while violating the spirit of both. Within this framework, Hester Prynne is,
in many ways, an ideal feminist heroine. Hester has born a child, a baby girl whom she named Pearl. As her husband has not arrived from England, i.e., they have
been separated for far more than nine months, it clear to the entire village that Hester has committed adultery. Initially, she is imprisoned for this violation of morality; however,
the Salem patriarchs release her on the condition that she should forever wear a "A" upon her breast as a ignoble sign of her shame. Hester acquiesces to this ruling,
but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery
and fantastic flourishes of gold thread...It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and
fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore..." (Hawthorne, 1997, pp. 62-63). The scarlet letter is, of course the most profound symbol in the novel. It is meant
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