Awesomeness

IN THE NAME OF GOD

 Cultural
Summary
Historical Social The Scarlet
Letter
Introduction

Second Semester
Third Lecture
By:
Salam Abdalmeer
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The Scarlet Critics have
Letter: is a work described it as a
of historical masterwork &
fiction by American Genre: The novel perfect work of the
author Nathaniel American
is classified under The Scarlet
Hawthorne, the romantic genre imagination &
published in 1850. and further
Letter is a true
literature.
classified as dark masterpiece of
romanticism and American
dystopian fiction.
Literature.
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The novel was based upon

the religious & social
Nathaniel
HEADLINE beliefs of the puritans,
Hawthorne, (1804 - structured into a single
1864), short story HEADLINE
ideology, which was
writer and novelist, The Scarlet Letter" is formed from their English
was one of the set in seventeenth experience and complete
foremost nineteenth century and commitment to religion.
century writers in HEADLINE
Hawthorne
America. successfully depicted
the Puritanism that
was found there.
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The majority of Hawthorne’s work
takes America’s Puritan past as its
subject. The Puritans were a group
of religious reformers. They
believed that God expected them to
reform the Church.
A citizen's reputation
was significant
throughout the Puritan community,
where a person's personal life was
virtually non-existent and sins were
publicly announced. In the novel,
Hester Prynne is forced to wear
a scarlet letter, which represents
her sin of adultery.
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In The Scarlet
Letter, Hawthorne uses the
Puritan society as an
analogue for humankind in
general. The Puritan setting
also enables him to portray
the human soul under
extreme pressures.
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The Scarlet
The author
Letter's symbolis
criticizes the style He argues that the m helps to create
of punishment outcome of a powerful drama
that is used in the their punishments in Puritan Boston
Puritan Religion is damaging to the because it is
which is radical, characters and about public
inhumane and their personality. shaming and
cold.
punishment.
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In The Scarlet Letter
there are many different In this novel Hawthorne
American history and
events that actually portrays the literary time
culture are just a few
occurred within period, American
reasons that helped to
American history and Renaissance, and presents
show this book as a true
helped to shape their much of their nations, history
American masterpiece.
society. and culture.

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There are many similarities that can be seen
between the storyline of The Scarlet Letter
The author is giving the reader a
and the culture of America throughout the C
glimpse of what life and history
centuries. The reason for this parallel is that
was like during that time setting.
the setting of the story takes place in America It contains many topics that are still
He expresses the values that the
and even though relevant today, that’s why this book
there are many aspects of today's culture are society held at that time and
is related to the American culture
reflected in this book.. what they believed was most of the past and present.
important.
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