1. Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R.
Paper No.: 10/ American Literature
Presented Date: 2-10-2014
Year: 2014-2015
Roll No.: 18
M.A./Part:2
Sem.:3

3.  1650-1570: Early colonial period-puritan writing, no
distinctive American literature.
1750-1800: Later colonial period-Age of
Reason/Enlightment (Neo-classicism, Rationalism).
1800-1850: American Renaissance/Romanticism-
Slave narratives, inner feelings, the burden of a puritan
past, the rejection of Neo-classicism.

7.  “This Woman has brought “Shame” upon us all, and ought to
die. Is there not low for it? Truly there is , both in the Scripture
and the Statue-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it
of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives and daughters go
astray!”
“Come along, madam Hester, and show your Scarlet letter in the
market place!”
“ pray you , good sir, Said he, who is this woman? –and where
fore is she here set up to public Shame?”

8. You must needs be a stranger in this region, friend,” answered
the townsman, looking curiously at the questioner and his savage
companion: “else you would surely have heard of mistress Hester
prynne , and her evil doings. She hath raised a great scandal, I
promise you, in godly master Dimmesdale’s church.”

10.  Individuality.
 Patriarchy/Feminism.
 FreeWill
 Sin results in expulsion a Suffering.
Boldness
 No Ideology

11.  Frustration
 Conflict with ‘SUPER-EGO’.
Escapism
Tragedy
 Lost patriarchal power
‘Shame’:
“The deepest shame is not shame in the eyes of others
but weakness in own yes.”
-Helen Merrell Lynd

12.  Pearl illegimate child of Hester &
Dimmesdale.
 Human spirit of Hester
 Immersionism
Self-Relience.
Ideal Ego

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Submitted To: S.B. Gardi,
Department of English,
M.K. Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).