critique of The Scarlet Letter
Critique of The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was written in the 1850’s. It starts off with the narrator speaking of finding a manuscript in the attic of a custom house, with a scarlet letter A on the front. He then writes the story loosely based on the manuscript, and the story is The Scarlet Letter. The story starts out with the main character Hester Pryne leaving the jail, she was imprisoned because of committing adultery, in which she must where a letter A on her cloak. ... Hester meets with Dimmesdale in the forest, where they decide to move to Europe, Hester removes her scarlet A, and Pearl doesn’t recognize her. ... He dies with a Scarlet A, on his chest. ... The major characters of the Scarlet Letter are Hester Pryne, Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, the narrator. ... While she is growing up she is always attracted to the letter, she doesn’t let her mom forget it. ... Two things that I think are themes of The Scarlet Letter are: Good versus evil, and Hester and Dimmesdale’s love. ... The two major symbols, that are constant throughout the story are the scarlet letter, and Pearl. The most obvious is the scarlet letter A that Hester must always wear. ... The first description of the letter suggests that it was something beyond wearing a letter "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread , appeared the letter A.