Major characters of ' The scarlet Letter'.

1.  Name :- Divya d. Vaghela
 Roll no :- 07
 Sem :-3
 Batch :- 2018-20
 Paper no (10) :- The American Literature
 Email Id :- vaghela.divya230@gmail.com
 Submitted to :- Department of English, MKBU

2.  Nathaniel Hawthorne was an
American novelist, dark romantic
and short story writer.
 He was a puritan and was the first
of the family to emigrate from
England.
 Works have often moral message
and deep psychological complexity.

3.  He create satire through the character of women
 This novel known as master work of Hawthorne
 Themes centers on the inherent evil and sin of humanity
 Fiction considered part of the Romantic movement and more
specifically, dark Romanticism.
 He talks about the culture and the privileged group.
 Major Novels of Hawthorne :-
1. The House of the seven gables
2. Twice – Told Tales
3. The Blithedale Romnce

4.  It was an 1850 novel
 The scarlet letter: A Romance is
a work of historical fiction by
American author.
 It was a story of a woman by a
man
 Frame of a woman ,as a social it
was broken

5.  The novel set in puritan age
 We enter in the novel through the custom house
 In puritan new England, a young woman named Hester gives birth
to baby girl
 Her husband has been missing for some years
 Area of human experience
 Very good use of Nature.

6.  The novel is an expression of the conflict in the mind and heart of a
character that gains a new identity by violating the codes and
creates her own Religion and rules of nature.
 In appearance the puritan culture stresses human nature common
to all it’s members while in reality each individual is a unique self
with personal desires to be fulfilled.

7.  Husband of Hester Prynne
 He leaves alone his wife for some
years
 When he comes back he is not
accepting his wife’s affair with Arthur
Dimmesdale
 He has a aim to kill lover of Hester
 He Portrayed as negative character
 He hasn’t good intention or ideas
 Never retreat for his mistake, want to
take revenge

8.  He was a priest of church
 Reputed person in society
 He met Hester by the element of Nature
 He falls in love with Hester in absence of
Hester’s husband
 Was he a selfish man?
 Was he want to escape from
responsibility or society
 If his love was pure and true then why
he doesn’t accept it among society
 Can we say that he was coward ,he
hasn’t courage to accept his decision

9.  She was an young and very beautiful
woman
 She was a very strong woman
 Falls in love with Arthur and got
pregnant
 She is taking big risk to give birth of
child
 Stands very bravely against society
 She is reading in library, no one
woman apart from Hester is reading
which shows Education of that time
 She use to leave alone

10.  She was a young, beautiful,
unmarried and collegian girl
 Belong to the middle class family
 Falls in love with Rahul and got
pregnant
 Rahul refuses to accept her
 Decides to give birth to child
 Get support from family and fights
against society

11.  Both are young and beautiful women
 Both falls in love with a man and got pregnant
 Both are adultery women
 Both decides to give birth to a child
 Both get support of one man
 Both fight against society
 They don’t lose their self or stand with their decision
 Both faces society or public

12.  Extra marital affair after marriage
 Represents puritan age or that time
 She refuses to say name of her
lover
 She has given punishment by
society
 She has to wear ‘A’ letter for
adultery
 Doesn’t get support of family
 She has an affair or get pregnant
before marriage
 Represents modern time of current
time
 She takes the name of her lover in
presence of people
 She has not given any punishment
by society
 Doesn’t need to wear ‘A’ letter
 Get support of family

13.  At conclude, I would like to say that still women have to suffer alot.
They can’t rid of society’s sight. There was a major difference if a
man has done a sin and women has done. If any woman has
committed sin than nobody is ready to give her justification.