Hawthorne Hypocrisy

A favored illustration of Gothic Romanticism, The Scarlet Letter, is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s critically acclaimed depiction of Puritan society. This consists of an exploration of isolation and hypocrisy through Hawthorne’s rich characters and their complex inner psychological turmoil. To start, it is urgent to know information about the author. Hawthorne was “steeped in the Puritan legacy”( as cited in Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography, 2018). Both of his ancestors turned out to be strict judges during a time where persons got arrested for practicing witchcraft. Then, when Hawthorne was four years old, his dad had passed due to yellow fever, and financial problems had started to arise along with his leg injury. This injury, however, inspired Hawthorne to become a writer. Later, he attended Bowdoin College, a liberal arts college, with the help of

He soon figured out that writing did not have the best income in which led him to go to Salem to become a customs agent. But, writing was his true passion; there was nothing political or unfair about it, so he returned to do what he loved, and in 1850, he published The Scarlet Letter. The masterpiece was about a family that collided with the Puritan community and their regulations. With this conflict, readers can see that isolation and hypocrisy play a major role in the plot. First of all, the feeling of isolation happens throughout most of the characters in the story. For example, in chapter 11, Mr.Dimmesdale, the clergyman, shares an isolation of guilt when he is not talking to the rest of the Puritan community for what he had done. According to Hawthorne, “...the only truth that continued to give Mr.Dimmesdale a real existence on this