Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester’s Quest for Identity in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

Dimmesdale and Hester are seeking identity with "red letters" Although the allegory is a clear and attractive interpretation of Hawthorn's "red", I also see the possibility of psychological reading in this novel. Pursuit of ourselves. Both Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne have undergone this process to find the impossibility of separating individual duality, personal and community identity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1850 novel "Scarlet Letter" tells about the affair between the Massachusetts bay colonized Hester Pudding and the pastor Arthur Ding Mesdale in the 1640' s. . However, couple illegal women's pearls play the most important role in developing the novel's moral theme. Initially, pearls were physical incarnations of scarlet "A" that her mother had to wear as a symbol of her infidelity; the birth of pearl brought Hester's punishment, and her Early life reminded me of it. But upgrading pearls also helps to salvage and recover Hester. Born outside the laws of people and church, she knows the freedom that other children of the Puritan community can not imagine. She is happy, uncontrollable, unpredictable. At this point, the pearl represents the ideal of American transcendental movement led by Hawthorne.

Arthur Dimmesdale is Puritan Pastor of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. He was dyed by Hester and later became a father of pearls. As the novel progresses, the true character of Ding Mesdale is revealed, and the reader follows his life for several years. Hawthorne used many symbolic meanings to establish the characteristics of Arthur Dimmesdale. The most important symbol related to Dimmesdale is the "red character" analysis when he puts his hand on his mind. Surrounded by wonderful prosperity, there is a letter A. (40) The story of "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. On this line. From scratch to the end, the scarlet letter has a great influence on the development of the plot. The traitor Hester Prynne escaped from her death, but she must wear a red letter.

Dimmesdale and Hester are seeking identity with "red letters" Although the allegory is a clear and attractive interpretation of Hawthorn's "red", I also see the possibility of psychological reading in this novel. Pursuit of ourselves. This also indicates that Hester is strong enough to make a big sacrifice. In addition, it suggests that Hester has "masculine" features like such strong, and finally showed Huster 's Hester' s progress. Furthermore, in the entire novel, Hawthorne valued highly the beauty that Hester has. But she has terrible flaws, red words