The Scarlet Letter

Author 's biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. When his father died at the age of four, Hawthorne was living in poverty, but he studied at university with the help of his relatives and showed interest in writing. During college, he met a friend who proves to be an irreplaceable presence in future American President Franklin Pearce. In 1825, he and his uncle graduated from Salem and had lived for 12 years.

Hawthorn novel "Red Letter", the hero, Hester Prinn is a true contemporary of the modern era cast in the Massachusetts 17th century Boston Puritan. "Red Letter" is an innovative novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne who studied the ugliness, complexity and power of human spirit and personality, a new idea of ​​independence and the struggle faced by American women in the 17th century I am sharing. In the whole novel, Hester refused to remove the scarlet letter and became sharper.

"Red Letter" was written in 1850 and is a very progressive book. "Red Letter" where women's new concept, the main character's story, and various themes intertwined is still a very popular novel about the 17th century Boston, Massachusetts. The 19th century was not only the era of the abolition of slavery movement but also the beginning of the first wave of feminism. - Hester Prynne's transformation in "Red Letter" Hester Prynne has committed such a severe crime that she turned her life into torture and failure. At "Red Letter", Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester was publicly recognized as a foreign body contaminant and expelled from society. In addition to the isolated theme, red letters, or symbol of sin, it is intended to make Hester into a humiliation, but it is intended to change her from a woman of normal life to a stronger person.

Alienation is a common theme in all sentences; however, in Natani el Hawthorn's "red letter" there was no such vivid explanation of alienation - alienation of Natani el Hawthorn in "red". "Red Letter" is a story about husband Hester Proun named Roger Chlorinating who committed adultery with local pastor Arthur Timescale. A woman. The result is a strange child named Pearl. When enthusiasts and pastors try to preserve the secrets of their sins, the conspiracy gets thicker and chlorination hides his real identity and appears in the city; it climbs to the scaffold and all secrets are leaked

"Red Letter" reveals moral and social values ​​related to social discrimination against women through alienation of Hester Prynne, the main character of "Red Letter". In the "red letter", Hester was punished for an affair relationship with Pastor Din Mesdale, and a child named Pearl was born. Due to adultery, the Puritan social authority she lived for her to wear a red letter on her chest, which means that the public can not guarantee that the public will see her red letters and pearls throughout the community Standing on the scaffold in front But in practice, Hester has life imprisonment, more content is displayed in alienation with ....