Red characters

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA)
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The Scarlet Letter is a representative work of American Romanticist novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. It depicts the wife of a man, Hester Prynne, being seduced by a young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, and becoming pregnant. In a secluded life, away from society and people, enduring humiliation, Hester lives with resilience and solitude, with her only support being her daughter Pearl. Hester's spirit of enduring humiliation, bearing the blame for others, and has once moved Dimmesdale. Her husband suddenly returns and uses all means to investigate the identity of the lover, seeking revenge. In the end, tormented by his conscience, Dimmesdale publicly confesses his seduction of Hester on the day he takes office in the new town and dies in Hester's arms. The novel exposes the cruelty of the legal codes, the deception of religion, and the hypocrisy of morality in American society during the 19th-century capitalist development era. It is not only a masterpiece of American Romanticist fiction but is also known as the pioneering work of American psychological analysis fiction.