Summary of the Scarlet letter

This story is about a woman named Hester, whose husband was sent to a war ,cause he was a doctor, During her husbands absence, she fell in love with a priest in a church named Dimmesdale.After she understood her husbands death, she had illegal relationship with that priest and soon had a child. The court asked her o say the name of babies' father but she didn’t confess so the court made her put the scarlet A on her bosom, to show that she is adultery. Hester named her daughter, Pearl.After two years Hester's husband came back alive and tried to disturb the priest because he understood the priest was the Pearls father. Finally at the end of story Dim confessed that he is Pearls father and they escaped to other city to live.

‍Critique

The question which comes to my mind was that why the priest didn’t say his name at the first of the story .For finding the answer to my question, I have studied many critiques of this story and finally I got the answer and many other beautiful points about others cultures. The answer of my question is this; the story happened in Victorian time and in that time people were very religious, they all believed Dim deeply as a source of pureness so he couldn’t disturb the people's good ideas about himself. So during the story he had challenges with himself.

Other points

Scarlet A: scarlet means red, a means adultery .Why is it Red? Because red is symbol of passion (earthly love not a spiritual love).
Pearl: is valuable and beautiful product of ugly and dark sin (illegal relationship). Narrator considers Pearl as an elf and wants to say she is devil, because Pearl hasn’t two parents and her father is absent .Pearl is always associated with nature, cause both of them are innocent, so nature is the place of love.
Dimmesdale:
Dim 1) dark: s.th not clean 2) lack of courage/lack of will
Couregness is related to male but here Hester is female and has courage.
*some critics say it is novel of sin, sin against religion and morality but another critic says it is sin of nature ,it is crime of silence by not confessing the name of lover.
*These two partner of same crime (Hester and Dim) are suffering. Hester has external suffering by wearing scarlet letter on her bosom but Dim has internal suffering by wearing scarlet letter on his heart which is worse than external.
*The writer finds love higher than rules and morals of the strict society because at first he had some religious background but little by little he became more introduced by scientist like Darwin and read their theory and lost his own faith and this lack of faith has dominated his works. Nearly all his important novels are set in agricultural areas which he grows up in mid 1800.
*About the writers language and grammar I can say although he used present in many sentences but I feel past cause their religion was unfamiliar to me that I can never understand it because some strict rules of their religion made people commit a sin .For example, when one woman's husband die, she must not get marry until ten years. This story helped me know Islam better than before because when I search about history of Islam, I feel the present, it means Islam's rules are eternal, so I am happy cause of having this eternal religion.














BY: Zahra Hatami