The scarlet
letter
As we study about to American literature in ‘The
scarlet letter’ written by Hawthorne in 1985 in Salem, Massachusetts. In this novel we
see that Hester Prynne was protagonist. The Scarlet Letter opens with a long
preamble about how the book came to be written. The nameless narrator was the
surveyor of the customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts. In this novel we see that
author personal experience and reality of American society. How utopian society
punish to this woman only for illegitimate child. No fault of woman but how
religious and rule of utopian ideas in her was sinner. Hester Prynne, is led
from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the
scarlet letter “A” on her breast. A man in the
crowd tells an elderly onlooker that Hester is being punished for adultery.
Hester’s husband as chillingworth scholar much older than she is, sent her
ahead to America, but he never arrived in Boston. The consensus is that he has
been lost at sea. While waiting for her husband, Hester has apparently had an
affair, as she has given birth to a child. She will not reveal her lover’s
identity.
The scarlet letter along with her public shaming is her punishment
for her sin and her secrecy. On this day Hester is led to the town scaffold and
harangued by the town fathers, but she again refuses to identify her child’s
father. As we see that Hawthorne has narrated to this novel it’s became mystery
and also old costume house manuscript has to in Salem at time he lost his
job. Hester was sinner and crime that to
love Dimmesdale. But he was religious and blind follower to puritan society. We
know that mother and daughter leave together in Boston in near to nature, as
only for Dimmesdale favors them. Dimmesdale
appears to be wasting away and suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly
caused by psychological distress. Chillingworth attaches himself to the ailing
minister and eventually moves in with him so that he can provide his patient
with round-the-clock care. Chillingworth also suspects that there may be a
connection between the minister’s torments and Hester’s secret, and he begins
to test Dimmesdale to see what he can learn. At that time society has to punish
Hester only for her mysterious lover Dimmesdale.
“Speak Women! Said another voice
coldly and sternly, proceeding from the crowd about the scaffold ‘Speak’ and
give your child a father!”
In puritan ideas Hester at
standing to scaffold and society had given mark at the scarlet letter in her
breast “A”. It is adultery and angel. We
see that Hester was may be saintly figures and just she love and care of her
daughter pear. May be at that time pear has responsible to Hester situation.
Here we found
that Hester has leave and goes to nature at forest. In narrative want way
chillingworth was death. The former lovers decide to flee to Europe, where they
can live with Pearl as a family. And if her daughter pear grown that and
married to aristocratic person. And leave that to England ad she was happy
that. At that time Hester was die and both lover grave stay together to near
them and mark to “A”. She is buried next to Dimmesdale. The two share a single
tombstone, which bears a scarlet “A.”
As we know that Hester
and Dimmesdale characters are different and how Hawthorne given ideas about to
this two person. In the novel women are free and individual but society remain
that it is evil to society. They are not accepted that. Male characters are bad
and his psyche of mind and blind follower of society and its main that
conscious of reality. When narrative goes that Chillingworth and Dimmesdale
have evil at nature.
Hester was sin to born her child just only for
identity of her lover. In narrative that puritan society has not individual but
at rigid and harassment of woman identity and their life also. Though out of
the novel Dimmesdale not accepted his lover but at love of his child pear. Both
lover love story has unfinished. But we see that how puritan society punishment
has to mark given to both lover “A”, at end that grave reunite to scarlet
letter red embroidery “A”.
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