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The Scarlet Letter

Part 1

The author Nathaniel Hawthorne is a famous American writer known for its symbolic writing skills and he had a deep bond with his Puritan ancestors. For that, he writes The Scarlet Letter that both highlighted their weaknesses and strengths. By this novel, Hawthorne shows his romantic ideas about the rights of pursuing love and freedom as well as moral regulations of Puritanism. From background, we can know the reason of the writings lie in his democratic ideas, his family history and democratic ideas. Besides, m ost of his novels are based on American’s colony and reveal the social life. The Scarlet Letter is one of them and it’s surely a masterpiece. As one of the American masterpieces, the novel The Scarlet Letter enjoys the great prestige. Not only the author portraits a wonderful heroine, but also he arranges the plots of the story in patriarchy point of view. Now let me tell you something about it!

Part 2

This story begins in 17th century when Puritanism is prevails and the author use the scarlet letter to symbolize the severities of Puritan Society. The main role is Hester who is punished by wearing a big “A” on her chest for adultery. Obviously, it’s shameful. After torture, she begins to save herself and struggle with all difficulties. All her life is full of

hardship and she defies her pitiful destiny. Her daughter—Pearl was also experiences a complex life and lives a happy life eventually. Other roles include a clergyman who is subjected to persecution of religion and Hester’s legal husband. Their relationships between themselves are intricate and the plots of this novel are complicated but easy to understand.

Part 3

Personally, this novel is worth of a reading and I strongly recommend it to you. It’s absolutely a fascinating story for we can many things from it whatever about life or moral standard. You can also learn more about the history of Puritan through this novel. Different from other English novels, the plots of this story are easy to understand and very exciting. It also shows excellent writing techniques of author to grasp the whole structure. The author arranges the symbolic scaffold as a place of beginning, climax, and end of the story. This sort of arrangement draws the outline of three stages of story clearly. It’s useful for us to write in this way. I also find the symbolism in this novel is quite skillful and the technique he uses makes his novel more vivid. What’s more, Hester’s attitudes towards her life also need us to learn. At first, she may be an innocent person. But, she always looking forwards a better life and being an unselfish people to other humans. Later, she becomes a respectable people. Meantime, the