Assignment: The American Literature

 

Ø Name:- Sanjaykumar N Jogadiya.

Ø Subject:- The American Literature

Ø Paper No.10

Ø                     Topic:- Critical Analysis of “The Scarlet Letter”

Ø Part:- M.A. Sem-3

Ø RollNo.24,   

Ø EnrollmentNo:-2069108420200017

Ø  Email Id:- snjogadiya@amail.com

Ø  Submitted:- Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of  English  MK Bhavnagar  University.

 

 About Author:

 

Born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, Nathaniel H. Thorne's life passed into Puritan heritage. The earliest ancestor, William Heathron, first migrated from England to America in 1630 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, where he became a judge known for his harsh sentences. William's son, John Hawthorn, was one of three judges during the Salem Witch trial in the 1690s. Hawthorne later added "W" to his name to keep himself away from this side of the family.

 

Hawthorn was the only son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Clark Hawthorne (Manning). His father, a sea captain, died of yellow fever in 1808 while at sea. The family was left with a lot of financial support and moved in with Elizabeth's wealthy brothers. Hawthorne was paralyzed for several months due to a foot injury at an early age, during which time he developed a strong appetite for reading and set his sights on becoming a writer. After 1860, it became clear that H. Thorne was moving ahead of his prime minister. Fighting to revive its previous productivity, it had little success. The drafts were largely inconsistent and the rest incomplete. Some even showed signs of mental regression.  Her health began to decline and she felt remarkable with age, her hair turned white and she felt the thought. For months, he refused medical help and died on May 19, 1864, in his sleep in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American short story writer and novelist. His short stories include "My Kinsman, Major Molinex" (1832), "Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832), "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) and the collection Two-Told Tales. He is best known for his novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of F Seven Gables (1851). Using his metaphor and symbolism, H. Thorne became one of the most studied authors.

 

 

About novel:-

 

The Scarlet Letter:

 

A Thriller is a work of historical literature written by American author Nathaniel H. Thorney, published in 1850.  The novel tells the story of Hester Prion, who conceived a daughter through an affair and then struggled, between 1642 and 1649 in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. Create a new life of repentance and pride.  The book explores the themes of legitimacy, sin and crime.

The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in America. It was popular when it was first published and is considered an excellent work today.  It inspires numerous film, television and stage adaptations. Critics called it a masterpiece and a novelist d.  H.  Described as Lawrence, he called it "the whole work of the American."  Imagine ". A great law was broken in its existence;  And the result was a position whose elements may have been beautiful and brilliant, but all were in disarray or admitting to themselves by giving strange orders that finding the point of diversity and arrangement was difficult or impossible.

 

Looking at Pearl, Hester Prince often left her work on her knees, and she boomed with the sadness she hid, but who raised her voice for spontaneous speech and rumbling - "If you are still my father  So - what is this that I have brought into the world? "And Pearl, restrained by ejaculation, or awakened by some more subtitle channel that has become boring, will turn her vivid and beautiful title face to her mother, smile with soul - like wit, and  Resume his game.

 

 

Character:

Aurthur Dimmesdale

General Miller

Governor Bellingham

Hester Prynne

Inspector

John Wilson

Mistress Hibbins

Pearl

Roger Chillingworth

 

Critical Analysis:

Although Hawthorne wrote to his friend Bridge that he thought "The House of the Seven Gables" was a better book than "The Scarlet Letter", most modern critics considered "The Scarlet Letter" to be his masterpiece. In fact, evidence of the continued popularity of his works, even among those not generally associated with literary works, appeared in two 1984 issues of the New England Medicine.

 

A physician named Jameshad A. Khan, suggests that Dimmesdale is a victim of atropine poisoning administered by Chrop Lingworth. He supports his claim by citing the mention of Thorny's plant containing toxins and concludes that the symptoms experienced by Dimmesdale-Appearances, shock, trembling and red stigma of guilt, which some witnesses describe as novel-atropine near the chest.  Consistent with known symptoms of poisoning. The same journal carries in a series of two letters after only three zodiac signs in appreciation of Khan's later opinion. ‘I can smoke so much - the power of T. Hawthorne’s novel and its continued popularity is ample possibility among today’s dry readers through a novel written one hundred and thirty years ago.

 

  In a completely different vein, though one that should be examined should consider the recently advanced theory by another scholar H or Thorney, as noted, it has always been related to his family history and colonial history. His early American ancestor, William H. Thorne, arrived in the country in 1630 with John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hawthorne became chairman of the House of Delegates and was also a chief in the Salem army. The ‘Quakers’ were remembered by the Quakers for the incident of strict severity towards women of their sect. Hawthorne also thought that the memory of his ancestral intensity towards the woman "will last longer, he is more afraid than any record of his horrific deeds."

 

  William's son John became more famous or infamous. He was one of the three judges in the 1692 Salem witchcraft experiment. He is mentioned in the "Custom House" section of the Scarlet Letter, who made himself so clear in the martyrdom of the witches, that his blood was said to have left a scar on him.  Hawthorne's reaction to the early history of these two ancestors was to announce to him that "I, the present author as their representative, feel ashamed of myself for them and pray for any curses they may have made." now and so forth.  "

 

  For many readers, the shame that Hor Thorne took upon himself as a result of the actions of his ancestors is responsible for what he designates as one of the many "morals" that Dimmedall's experience provides for the reader. That moral is placed by Hawthorne in the final chapter of the novel, where he writes, ‘Be true!  Be true!  Show the world independently, if not yours, some of the features where speculation has been made "Interestingly, as mentioned earlier, many scholars have paid more attention to the history of Hawthorne's family, considering the obvious" sins "of his ancestors ex  That is, the excitement of these long-dead relatives of the witch is shown in Hawthorne's "even if not the worst," though, some of the traits from which the worst could be estimated were not sufficient reason. "They have looked elsewhere for a possible explanation. The moral discomfort that makes Hawthorne so impressive.

 

  For example, in 1984, the critic Philip Young published. H. Thorney's Secret, argues that H or Thorne may have uncovered some surprising information concerning his maternal ancestry that is responsible for the impressive morality in the last chapter of the Scarlet Letter.

 

  In the "Quarterly Court Records" of Essex County, Massachusetts, H. Thorne may well have found the record of the court case that took place on March 29, 1681. With his brother, Nicholas. He was sentenced to be whipped in public and to be in the middle of the Salem meeting hall with a paper on his head revealing the nature of his crime. The adulterous substitute for adulterous relationships may actually be the case to show “some trait that can be worst estimated”.

 

  To provide complete evidence of this type of scholarly research, it is hard to say that Hawthorne was aware of that particular aspect of the history of his ancestors, but he again shows that he is even more interested in the Scarlett letter and in the inspirations he wrote.

 

  As one considers these two recent speculations, one should consider the more material, but also the valuable aspects of Hawthorne’s masterpiece. For example, it is important to know that when Hawthorne finished the Scarlet Letter, he wrote most of the works to make her famous. Thus, many of the stylistic techniques and themes that characterized a work by H. Thorney were already the re-art of his style.  Those elements include:

 

(1) Hawthorne's theory of romance as a literary form; 

(2) Hawthorne's use of symbolism in the novel; 

(3) Style of Hawthorn; 

(4) The use of historical documents and diagrams as part of the setting;  And, finally,

(5) the use of hawthorn opacity.

 

  Turning to the Scarlet Letter, one finds that H. Thorne continued to use this device of obscurity to reduce the skeptical objections of his "normal-sensitive" readers.  At the end of Chapter 8, Mr. Press Hibbins discusses the importance of Hester's conversation with H. Thorne.  This worthy line enters: At times, H. Thorne criticizes.  : "We saw that ... just looking at his own eye and heart disease, that the minister, looking at Zenith, saw the appearance of a plethora of letters, the letter marked in a line of pale red light.

 

  In all these cases, Hawthorne has left the compromise to the reader;  The reader must determine whether it is "literally true." It seems that Hawthorne intends to use supernatural or bizarre devices for symbols, but it also provides an alternative explanation for the literal-minded reader who does not have a bizarre justification - not even for an artistic effect, indeed. Gives the best of the world.  He is somewhat like a trial lawyer who withdraws a comment on a judge's objections, but knows that the effects of his remarks will remain in the minds of the jury members.

 

  The final touch of Thorne's symbolism is in the slate tombstone that serves both tombs. Hawthorne uses the language of the heraldry to describe the letter A, which is engraved on it, and which can serve as a "brief description of the narrator and our now-extracted legend." He described the tombstone as sober and illuminated with only a glittering point of light, the scarlet letter. The description of the Herald's tombstone can be read: "On a field, on a sable, a gloss in a letter," which translates as in modern English, "On a black background, the scarlet letter.