An Analysis of the Market Place and the Forest Wilderness of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
An Analysis of the Market Place and the Forest.
Wilderness of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
This research paper concentrates on the meanings of the two settings of the marketplace and the forest wilderness of Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter. The marketplace is to stand for religious doctrine and Puritanical code, and the forest wilderness is to present the evil of human nature, at times it works against its purpose and serves as an explanation for why things happen the way they do. To support thesis, the paper is developed into three major parts. The first part focuses on the symbolic meanings of the marketplace. The second part presents the allegorical meanings of the forest wilderness. The third part comes to a new view towards the two different settings in the novel. The conclusion restates the thesis of the paper.
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Outline .
An Analysis of the Marketplace and the Forest.
Wilderness of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
I. Introduction.
1. The background of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
2. The brief introduction of Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter. .
3. The view on the two settings that leads to the topic under discussion.
4. Thesis: The two settings are created to exploit the flaws of Puritan society and the hypocrisy of their relations to Hester Prynne. .
II. The symbolic meanings of the marketplace.
III. The symbolic meanings of the forest wilderness.
IV. The meanings of the two settings in the novel.
V. Conclusion.
Restatement of the thesis.
An Analysis of the Market Place and the Forest.
Wilderness of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
1804-64, American novelist and short-story writer, Salem, Mass., one of the great masters of American fiction. His novels and tales are penetrating explorations of moral and spiritual conflicts.
Descended from a prominent Puritan family, Hawthorne was the son of a sea captain who died when Nathaniel was 4 years old.