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A 4 page research paper/essay that offers suggestions for how a teacher can interpret and instruct middle school students on the thematic message of Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece The Scarlet Letter, which is a complex psychological novel that offers interpretation on many levels. In presenting this novel to middle school students, it is important to aid students in understanding the moral messages that Hawthorne intends for his readers to understand, which not only address the sin of adultery, but also of patriarchal hypocrisy. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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is important to aid students in understanding the moral messages that Hawthorne intends for his readers to understand. The scarlet "A" that Hester Prynne wears has two functions. First of
all, it serves as a "vivid reminder to women of the consequences of sexual transgression" (Battan 601). However, secondly, Hawthorne makes it clear that Hesters letter is also intended as
a warning to the patriarchal society of his own era (the early nineteenth century) on the evil of hypocrisy and the "destructive power of intolerance" (Battan 601). Hester transgresses
by stepping outside the condoned social realms of her society by committing adultery and bearing a child by a man other than her husband. While Hester voluntarily wears this badge
of shame, the fact that she embroiders it elaborately suggests that part of Hester does not view the act of love that brought her child into the world as wholly
wrong. Hawthorne describes the "A" as made of "...fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread..." (Hawthorne chap. 2). A way to approach this
aspect of the novel with middle school students is to lead a class discussion on Hesters perspective, in a way that also direct the discussion to encompass the ramifications of
sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are social outcasts. However examination of the novel and
what Hawthorne has to say about the nature of sin should also bring out that Hawthorne portrays the greatest sin in the narrative as one of a guilty heart, wherein
the individual does not accept responsibility for sinful transgressions. This point is made clear in the way that Hawthorne characterizes Hester and her father of her child, the Reverend Dimmesdale.
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