The Scarlet Letter

The deep sarcasm of sympathy for the tone of the "red letter" and the novel's main character is clear from the sharp contrast between Hester and Ding Mesdale's society 's hypocrisy and the attempt to lead their own good lives. Ironic condition is determined in the preface, "I am always happiest elsewhere but I have an old Salem feeling in my mind," the narrator says. For example, the inspector whose greatest tragedy in life is a "goose accident". This contempt for his neighbors later contrasted with sympathy for Hester and Dimsdale. The narrator calls their story "a story of human vulnerability and sorrow", suggesting that their unpleasant consequences are the inevitable consequences of mankind and the story should be read compassionately There. By contrast, the tone used to explain citizenship contains the same sarcasm as the explanation of the neighbors of the narrator: About the elders of the town he said, "In the whole human family, people ..... It is not that simple to judge the hearts of mistaken women. "

The tone of the novel is also very skeptical, often casts doubt on the events they are explaining and shows that the theme of the story is more important than the story of Hester and Dimsdale. Narrators often advise some explanation of the event or how rudely his story is when the pearls play in the forest, "Wolves, it is said - but the story here Impossible condition - came ... let her barbarous head stroke with her hands. "This wonderful tune is a literal explanation of the events described by the talker and the reader It is in a literal sense that I want to take. There is a satirical distance between them. It also lives earlier, believes in magic and supernatural phenomena, evolving the reader more complexly than most characters in the book. His constant question and ranking of events emphasizes that the important thing is the morality of the story. For example, the contents of the previous page are fictitious

In "Red Letter", the alienation of the hero Hester Prynne in "Red Letter" reveals the moral and social values ​​related to social discrimination against women. In the "red letter", Hester was punished for affair relations with the priest Din Mesdale, leading a child named Pearl. For adultery, the Puritan social authority she lived sinned to wear a red letter on her chest. In fact, however, Hester is "red" and there is a sense of social alienation, and it is life imprisonment depending on how the community looks at foreigners. Therefore, women are further marginalized because they should act according to society's beliefs.

First, since the most important and influential symbol of the book is notorious scarlet letter, the title is "red". In chapter 2, Hester left the prison wearing the notorious red letter "A". In the first few years of Hester 's punishment, the letter reminded people of shame everyday. In chapter 5, Hawthorne wrote as follows. "... Hester Prynne always feels extremely painful when he feels human fear.This place has never been cruel, as everyday torture becomes more sensitive." As this story develops, this letter means something else for Hester and the people. Then in Chapter 18, Hawthorne wrote: "As we believe that Hester Prinley believes, seven years of gangsters and shame seems to be preparing for this time "When I came to Hors, a shame of Hester, it did not carry out its duties.