Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a long story (novel) called “The Scarlet Letter” which he tells the reader how a newbie mother commits a long lifetime sin to which she bursts out of in her own way. Hawthorne's father died as a sea captain in Dutch Guiana when he was four years old. He changed his name from William Hathorne to Nathaniel Hawthorne. He died in his hotel room on vacation in New Hampshire in May of 1864. The Scarlet Letter gives the reader a powerful message through how Hester Prynne overcame her shame of the scarlet letter on her bosom (breast) throughout her life. These three literary elements characterization, symbolism, and point of view show examples that support how Hester Prynne overcame her sin with a strong message using the
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Point of view refers to who tells us the story and how it's told. Hawthorne uses the point of view, omniscient third person narrator to tell his story in an all knowing way. He gives you background information to make the book so detailed that you can imagine everything. “The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender. Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward; until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air, as if by her own free-will. She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison” (pg 44). But, if the point of view would have been told through the first-person narrator through Hester’s point the story would be told how she feels about herself, Pearl, and her surroundings. “Oh, a story about the Black Man, answered Pearl, taking hold of her mother’s gown, and looking up, half earnestly, half mischievously, into her face” (pg 148). Hester would tell you how she feels when Pearl ask her that and how she would tell Pearl about the scarlet letter. Surely she would put strong feminist gestures related to her in the
Point of view refers to who tells us the story and how it's told. Hawthorne uses the point of view, omniscient third person narrator to tell his story in an all knowing way. He gives you background information to make the book so detailed that you can imagine everything. “The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender. Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward; until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air, as if by her own free-will. She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison” (pg 44). But, if the point of view would have been told through the first-person narrator through Hester’s point the story would be told how she feels about herself, Pearl, and her surroundings. “Oh, a story about the Black Man, answered Pearl, taking hold of her mother’s gown, and looking up, half earnestly, half mischievously, into her face” (pg 148). Hester would tell you how she feels when Pearl ask her that and how she would tell Pearl about the scarlet letter. Surely she would put strong feminist gestures related to her in the