Nathaniel Hawthorne's most renowned masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of American Romanticism. Taking this into consideration, I highly recommend The Scarlet Letter to anyone who deems themselves American in nature. Some important features in th...

The book The Scarlet Letter is all about symbolism. People and objects are symbolic of events and thoughts. Throughout the course of the book, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester, Pearl, and Arthur Dimmesdale to signify Puritanic and Romantic philosophies. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the ...

The Scarlet Letter There were many great works of writing during the romantic period of writing. Many works that captured the readers imagination. They would give people thoughts and fantasies of things that could happen. It used many depictions of and how things were during that time period....

A reverend has sex with a married woman and denies the baby of his own for seven years. Sounds like a sitcom on FOX, but it is the plot of The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. If Hawthorne intended us to read this novel solely based on plot, he would not have written it. He is a roma...

Romanticism can be defined as a literary movement marked especially by emphasis on the imagination and the emotions and by the use of autobiographical material. The years from 1810 to 1865 marked the period of romanticism. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, is a piece of l...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, to a family that had been prominent in the area since colonial times. An ancestor, John Hathorne, had been one of the Magistrates who presided over the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692. Hawthorne believed his family to have been sham...

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, is a symbol of sin and adultery in the sense that she leads Dimmsdale and Hester to their confession and the acceptance of their sins. A beautiful daughter of the towns adulturist has sometimes demon like traits. She is also the only living symbol ...

Romanticism is categorized as "a preference for simplicity and naturalness, a love of plain feelings and truth to common place reality, especially as found in natural scenes". Nathaniel Hawthorne was an anti-transcendentalist and believed in the dark side of man, hence his dark romant...