The Woman Identity In The Scarlet Letter

The Woman identity in the Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn

1. Content (author,.. 2-3)

2. Summary of the novel (3-4)

3. Feministic point of view (4-5)

4. Analysis of the topic (8-10)

5. References (author, date, page)

In 1804, in Salem Massachusetts, was born one of the best American writers, the one hailed as the “American Shakespeare” by Herman Melville and others. He was a member of a family descended from the early settlers of the Bay Colony of Massachusetts. His name was Hathorn until he started writing when he added the “w” to his name. This author attended the Bowdoind college of Maine. There, he met Henry Wadsworth and Franklin Pierce, both of whom had a great impact in Hawthorns life, one of whom would later become a president

The Puritans were a group of religious reformers who arrived in Massachusetts in the 1630s under the leadership of John Winthrop (whose death is recounted in the novel). The intolerance of dissenting lifestyles and ideas is the element by which this religious sect is defined. In The Scarlet Letter, the author uses the repressive, authoritarian Puritan society as an analogue for humankind in general. The Puritan setting also gives him the chance to portray the human soul under extreme pressures. The three personalities that play the key role of protagonists in the novel, one of whom woman, named Hester, and two men, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, are with no doubt part of the Puritan society in which they also live, are also personalities that reflect the universal experiences in the novel. The novel specifically speaks about the then American issues, problems and ideologies, but he uses the circumventing of thematic and aesthetic limitations that shall accompany that focus. He has made and ensured his crucial place and role in the literary canon due to his universality and the dramatic