The Scarlet Letter Essay -- Literary Analysis, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The red-faced garner, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a cult classic. And with good reason. Anyone who simply believes that the epithet of this phonograph recording just signifies that the protagonist wears a scarlet A on her dress in punishment of her adultery is ignorant. Obviously this paper would not be required if such were true. Instead, The Scarlet letter is extremely ambiguous. oneness can argue that the scarlet letter is a character itself. I intend to flesh this out in literary, historic, and symbolic terms.What is The Scarlet garner really somewhat? It has all the ingredients of a soap opera, but it is faraway more(prenominal) than that, (Johnson 1995) writes Claudia Durst Johnson in her view as which analyzes The Scarlet Letter thoroughly. Rather it is about the consequences of breaking the righteous code, or in this case a moral law. It is about failing to be true to human nature. It is about fierce and terrible revenge. It is about the hypocrisy of members of a c ommunity who refuse to grant that each of them is just as human, just as vulnerable to fanatic feelings as the women they label an adulterer. I could go on and on. The Scarlet Letters psychological aspects seem never-ending.The letter is a symbol. While it has umteen implied meanings, it also has literal meanings. The first and most obvious of the latter is that Hesters A stands for adultery and , as the narrator puts it, womens frailty and vile passion (83). But the A on her breast begins to represent divergent things as the story unfolds. For example, some people begin to think the A stands for able when she helps out the community. In the course of the novel, the A seems to encompass the blameless range of human beingness, from the earthly and passionate adulteress to the pure and... ...in the States during the seventeenth century. He wanted his readers to develop their own interpretation of how the States has changed. A number, except for certain exceptions, usually does not mean anything separate than its value. Thus, it was ruled out.Why is it The Scarlet Letter? Why not The Scarlet A? A title is much more effective when it is more general. At the end of the day, authors write books to make money. The Scarlet A is a confusing, as well as less appealing, title that would have change much less. The title is better off being general, and then allowing the book to be more specific. What is more memorable? The Scarlet Letter or The Scarlet A Adultery in the 1600s? The Scarlet Letter was titled the way it was for a reason. It symbolizes and appeals to every major theme in the book, while making it obvious on first glance what the book centralizes on.