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The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter. The Romantic Period 1830-1865. SL published in 1850, 1 st symbolic novel (American) 20 years of planning – most unified Other writers of the time – Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Poe. Scarlet Letter.

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The Scarlet Letter

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  1. The Scarlet Letter The Romantic Period 1830-1865

  2. SL published in 1850, 1st symbolic novel (American) • 20 years of planning – most unified • Other writers of the time – Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Poe

  3. Scarlet Letter • Set in remote past (Puritan Era) 200 yrs. Before Hawthorne and deals with inner psychology of individual characters • i.e. a romance about the past

  4. Romances = truths of the human heart (not just romantic love) = SL not necessarily a historical novel about Puritans = some facts and imagination (about human nature) = exaggerates relationship between humans and nature

  5. Scarlet Letter • Uses vocab and style familiar to 1850, but speech of 1600 Puritans • Setting – early 17th C. , approx. 1642, Boston, MA, a Puritan village • Story begins in “medias res” • Heavily symbolic – inner meanings through outward appearance

  6. Themes • Alienation • Religious hypocrisy • Breaking society’s rules • Creating one’s own world • Hate turns into love • Illusion vs. reality • Sin of flesh vs. sin of will/intellect

  7. Read on diff. levels • Psychological (indiv.) – internal effects of sin • Sociological (society) • Historical (period and culture) • Moral - many themes

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