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9 de jul. de 2019 · The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne’s 1850 novel of a 17 th century adulterous affair in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, centers on several themes that would have been very meaningful to the highly religious, pre-industrial community in which it is set: the nature of shame and judgment; the differences between our public and private lives; and the conflict between scientific and religious ...
Sin and Punishment. These are probably the two most obvious themes of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘ The Scarlet Letter ’ and they are very clearly executed throughout the pages of the book – beginning from the first chapter. Hester Prynne, who is the heroine of the book, is one of the characters who bear such guilts of sin and punishment.
For Hester, the scarlet letter functions as “her passport into regions where other women dared not tread,” leading her to “speculate” about her society and herself more “boldly” than anyone else in New England. As for Dimmesdale, the “burden” of his sin gives him “sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind ...
The Transcendentalist Movement. The Scarlet Letter, which takes as its principal subject colonial seventeenth-century New England, was written and published in the middle of the nineteenth century. Hawthorne began writing the novel in 1849, after his dismissal from the Custom-House, and it was published in 1850.
Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Việt Nam. Lâm Hoài. The Scarlet Letter (Tạm dịch: Chữ A màu đỏ hay Nét chữ màu đỏ) là một cuốn tiểu thuyết xuất bản năm 1850 của Nathaniel Hawthorne và được xem là một kiệt tác của ông. Lấy bối cảnh thành phố Boston thế kỷ 17, tiểu thuyết kể về ...
The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is set in Puritan New England in the 17th century. Exploring the issues of grace, legalism, and guilt, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman who commits adultry then struggles to create a new life. Source: Hawthorne, N. (1850). The Scarlet Letter.
The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne explores the human conscience, repentance, and remorse in this tale of forbidden love and secret shame. Hester Prynne becomes an outcast in her Puritan community when she gives birth to an illegitimate child while her husband is away. She is forced to wear a scarlet “A” to symbolize her adultery and mark her ...
