This undaunted, undefeated and triumphant stance of Hester Prynne at the moment of punishment in public is equivalent to the affirmation of love. It appears she was untouched by the punishment given by the 18th century puritanically strict Boston. Even amidst this public punishment Hester remained unashamed and undaunted. It is, to those Boston puritans, a violation of their rigorous ethics and moral rectitude. In accordance with the puritan code of law the sexual liaison of which Hester is guilty is an act of adultery. The puritan public charges her for adultery. Time and again she was harassed and interrogated so that she tells about her lover's name despite this torturous public punishment, Hester Prynne remained silent, remained undefeated and remained superbly dauntless. She was punished to stay on the scaffold in public. It is a love story because Hester did not reveal the name of her loves when she was torturously interrogated to pinpoint her lover's name. The story of the puritanically interpreted liaison between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale is the story of love. From the side of Arthur Dimmesdale it is somewhat difficult to say the immoral liaison between them is a token of pure love or not, but from the side of Hester Prynne it can be concluded with an air of confidence that so-called liaison is none other than pure love. When she arrived at the New England, she found Arthur Dimmesdale. Probably her marriage with such a bookworm was a source of dissatisfaction.
To our literature its first symbolic novel a year before theĪppearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick” (Bradley).Her husband was a bookworm.
Ten days and “made Hawthorne’s fame, changed his fortune and gave The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in Printed sold out in days, and the mass-production of books opened upĬonversation about books and authors to a wider-audience on a Printing of books generally done by hand. One of the first mass-produced novels in the United States, prior Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) is considered the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'masterwork.' A work of historical fiction set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Puritan settlement of 1642-1949 itells the story of Hester Prynne, who after having a child as a result of an extra-marital affair attempts to live a life of repentance and dignity although she is marked by having to wear a Scarlett A on her person.
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