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1. Literary Analysis on
“The Scarlet Letter”
by N. Hawthorne
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2. "The Scarlet Letter"
It is a Nathaniel's
Hawthorne novel about a
17th century's America,
about morales and
traditions of those days.
It is a novel about people's
relationships, their features
and inclines to different
sides of coping with
difficulties.

3. Pre-history
 The book had been written in
1850 year. It was started by
Hawthorne after a hard ten
years in American history.
Political strivings, lie, and
manipulations with a public
were the usual thing. It affected
on writers, who tried to send
people a message about being
true to their ideals.
 An idea came to Hawthorne
after he found an old collar
with an "A" letter on it and
wrote his vision and a story of

4. Plot
The book sends a reader to 40's
years of 17 century, to a period
of great changes in America.
Young woman Astaire betrayed
her missing husband – elderly
doctor Chillingworth with a
preacher Dimmesdale. The child
of this unholy alliance of Hester
and Dimmesdale was a girl
named Pearl. After
Chillingworth returned, he fully
devoted himself to revenge and
seeking justice.

5. Plot
Hester was publicly ashamed and
wearing of a Scarlet letter on her
breast was a sign of betrayal. The
preacher was deprived by a fact of
his mistake. He didn't find a will in
himself to tell the truth and was
constantly tormented by his
conscience. But though he
considered himself as a sinner, he
was still preaching, and it was even
a worse torture for his dogmatic
mind.

6. Critics
The novel has an unusual
composition, it is made from
sketches and brief pictures
from heroes' lives.
Some critics say that the main
idea was to show puritans'
morals, some think that this is
a novel about a sin and
redemption.
He purposely makes an accent
on the main line, heroes and
forms.

7. Conclusion
“The Scarlet Letter” was a life-changing novel
for Hawthorne as it brought a great popularity
to him.
Simplicity, understandable heroes' feelings,
interesting raveled story and great dramatic
outcome made this book a bestseller.
His times pushed him to write about issues that,
as he predicted, would be actual and exemplary
for a future generation.

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