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The
Summary of the Scarlet Letter about feminism
Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
the
author
of
this
book
was
one
of
the
most
interesting, yet most
ambivalent writers in American literary history.
He
was
called
the
“Moral
Historian
of
Puritan
New
England”
and
h
ad
a
strong feeling for the puritan past of
the seventeenth century.
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most
influential writers in America
in the
19th century. His novel The Scarlet Letter
published
in
1850
ensures his permanent fame in
literature. In this novel Hawthorne sets his
story
in
the
17
th
century
American
Boston
under
the
rule
of
puritan
magistrates.
According
to
some
theories
of
feminist
criticism,
Hawthorne's
feminism consciousness prompted him to shape a
rebellion
in the Scarlet letter to
women. In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne described
this consciousness into his villains,
the heroine's inner world. Hawthorne
revealed
Hester's
marginalized
status,
reflected
female
consciousness
of
the
widespread
in
the
Puritan
society.
Hawthorne
also
criticized
that
origin from the
patriarchal consciousness of unequal treatment of
women.
To
restore
a
woman's
subjectivity,
Hawthorne
wrote
his
story
and
description of the hero
and heroine to destroy the dual opposite ideas in
the patriarchal culture.
The
reasons why he wrote this kind of works were as
follows:
First, because when he was
young, he father was died. He knew that
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