mental torment for seven long years of life. This affliction would be due to a sin that was committed out of wedlock and causes a long and harrowing death. Arthur Dimmesdale is one of the characters Nathaniel Hawthorne uses to present this torment in The Scarlet Letter to present how failing to survive the effects of sin can lead to a characters death also known as not receiving redemption. Correspondingly, Roger Chillingworth exemplifies through the transgressor of revenge that not bearing through
many researchers stylistically and through many other prespectives.The review of others analysis will give better understanding of other aspects of this novel.The review of these analysis may enrich the knowlegde of the reader and deepen the analysis of The Scarlet Letter.This literature review will also be helpful in this thesis as for reference and contrast of ideas. Arif (1998) analyzed the main heroic character of Hester Pryyne and structural approach, sociological view and femeinistic approach
Abstract: A formalist analysis focuses on the literary text to the exclusion of social, cultural or political reality outside of the text. A text is examined by the formalists as a complete world in itself. A close reading of the text, therefore, is the foundation of Formalist criticism. When we examine the text of The Scarlet Letter, it seems as if the novel has been written with great care and precision. Hawthorne seems to have woven the tapestry of the scarlet letter with utmost care leaving absolutely
Emerging late in 1960’s as a new strategy for textual analysis, deconstruction captivated the concentration of critical theories. What is deconstruction? In A Handbook to Literary Research deconstruction is defined as "a form of textual practice derived from the work of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida