Scarlet Letter Theme Analysis
The scarlet letter is well known for its dark tone and characters. It’s also pretty well known for its many themes. One of the Themes that have seemed to pop out and appear a lot throughout the scarlet letter and the other texts we covered would have to be Justice and Judgement. From the beginning of the scarlet to letter to right about the end many example of this theme are shown. In fact, justice and judgment seems to be a very important and main theme throughout the puritan culture. Every single story we covered that was involved in puritanism seemed to have a little bit of Justice and Judgement. Even the puritanism articles in general had that theme and even tone to it. Starting off with the …show more content…
First of all, they seem to be very serious in what they consider sin. Most of what they do is revolved around what they can’t do. As said the Sermon “Sinners in the
Hands of Angry God”, “God dangles you over a pit of fire like a spider on a thin strand of thread”. (Johnathan Edwards 7) This single line basically sums up just about everything I’ve learned about puritanism. Puritan’s view their god as a merciless creator who is not forgiving towards any of those who sin or go against the will of god.(Kizer) Understanding puritan culture does offer a better understanding towards the
Scarlet Letter, because we can understand why the villagers treat Hester so poorly. They do these horrible things to stay on their gods “Good Side”. When you look at it closely through their eyes, what they’re doing isn’t that bad of a thing.
It’s just what they believe is right. (Kizer)
The author of the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, swaps between suspense and drama to compel the reader from beginning to end. He also uses this to show us how people in the story think, and better explains what they do. Since the main theme is Justice and Judgement, suspense can really
The scarlet letter is well known for its dark tone and characters. It’s also pretty well known for its many themes. One of the Themes that have seemed to pop out and appear a lot throughout the scarlet letter and the other texts we covered would have to be Justice and Judgement. From the beginning of the scarlet to letter to right about the end many example of this theme are shown. In fact, justice and judgment seems to be a very important and main theme throughout the puritan culture. Every single story we covered that was involved in puritanism seemed to have a little bit of Justice and Judgement. Even the puritanism articles in general had that theme and even tone to it. Starting off with the …show more content…
First of all, they seem to be very serious in what they consider sin. Most of what they do is revolved around what they can’t do. As said the Sermon “Sinners in the
Hands of Angry God”, “God dangles you over a pit of fire like a spider on a thin strand of thread”. (Johnathan Edwards 7) This single line basically sums up just about everything I’ve learned about puritanism. Puritan’s view their god as a merciless creator who is not forgiving towards any of those who sin or go against the will of god.(Kizer) Understanding puritan culture does offer a better understanding towards the
Scarlet Letter, because we can understand why the villagers treat Hester so poorly. They do these horrible things to stay on their gods “Good Side”. When you look at it closely through their eyes, what they’re doing isn’t that bad of a thing.
It’s just what they believe is right. (Kizer)
The author of the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, swaps between suspense and drama to compel the reader from beginning to end. He also uses this to show us how people in the story think, and better explains what they do. Since the main theme is Justice and Judgement, suspense can really