Settled in the cruel and repressive Puritan society, “The Scarlet Letter” is a story about a punishment of a horrible and unforgivable sin, the sin of love, committed by two lovers and their sufferings for tasting the ”forbidden fruit”. In the very heart of the novel the main theme that has being presented and observed is the sin itself. Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin is very closely connected to the “original “sin, because they are both forbidden and result in knowledge of what is it like to be a
The influence of Puritan society was major on Hawthorne and in The Scarlet Letter he uncovered and discarded the Puritan dogmass.As Michael J. Colacurcio notes in “ Doctrine and Difference: Essays in the Literature of New England that : “The Scarlet Letter must be seen as Hawthorne’s way of testing the limits of Puritan theology as a way of making sense out of some deep and passionate forms of human experience” (Colacurcio 1997:192) However , Hawthorne presented Puritans as hypocritical as Jim
officer and advisor to four presidents said, “Sometimes 3you can tell more truth through fiction”. As a genre, spy fiction is elementally related to the novel of adventure, the thriller and the politico-military thriller like The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy written in 1905. Espionage is about a government or person seeking information designated secret or confidential without the permission of the information