Literary Analysis on The Scarlet Letter

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Literary Analysis on The Scarlet Letter by N.
Hawthorne

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"The Scarlet Letter"

• It is a Nathaniel's Hawthorne novel about a 17th
  century's America, about morales and traditions
  of those days.
• It is a novel about people's relationships, their
  features and inclines to different sides of
  coping with difficulties.

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Pre-history

• The book had been written in 1850 year. It was
  started by Hawthorne after a hard ten years in
  American history. Political strivings, lie, and
  manipulations with a public were the usual thing.
  It affected on writers, who tried to send people
  a message about being true to their ideals.
• An idea came to Hawthorne after he found an old
  collar with an "A" letter on it and wrote his
  vision and a story of that period.

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Plot

• The book sends a reader to 40's years of 17
  century, to a period of great changes in America.
  Young woman Astaire betrayed her missing husband
  elderly doctor Chillingworth with a preacher
  Dimmesdale. The child of this unholy alliance of
  Hester and Dimmesdale was a girl named Pearl.
  After Chillingworth returned, he fully devoted
  himself to revenge and seeking justice.

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Plot

• Hester was publicly ashamed and wearing of a
  Scarlet letter on her breast was a sign of
  betrayal. The preacher was deprived by a fact of
  his mistake. He didn't find a will in himself to
  tell the truth and was constantly tormented by
  his conscience. But though he considered himself
  as a sinner, he was still preaching, and it was
  even a worse torture for his dogmatic mind.

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Critics

• The novel has an unusual composition, it is made
  from sketches and brief pictures from heroes'
  lives.
• Some critics say that the main idea was to show
  puritans' morals, some think that this is a novel
  about a sin and redemption.
• He purposely makes an accent on the main line,
  heroes and forms.

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Conclusion

• The Scarlet Letter was a life-changing novel
  for Hawthorne as it brought a great popularity to
  him.
• Simplicity, understandable heroes' feelings,
  interesting raveled story and great dramatic
  outcome made this book a bestseller.
• His times pushed him to write about issues that,
  as he predicted, would be actual and exemplary
  for a future generation.

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