The scarlet letter

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Nathanial Hawthorne

• Salem, Massachusetts 
• American novelist and short story writer
• Fanshawe
• psychological depth and symbolic

   complexity

Example of art in the romantic period        

• The Lady of Shalott
• Published in 1832

The romantic period

• Cultural and artistic movement 
  
• Poets and novelists
• Hallmarks

Why was Romanticism criticized?

The critical reception during the romantic period

• Positive
  
• Negative

The standards of the romantic period vs the standards nowadays

• Romantic period
  
• Nowadays

The Scarlet Letter

Do you think adultery is considered to be sinful?

Yes

No

Hester Prynne

• Protagonist
• Strong-willed and independent

Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale 

• Puritan minister
• Struggles with hypocrisy

Pearl

• Born out of wedlock
• Spirited and intelligent

Roger Chillingworth

Governor Bellingham

Themes 

• Guilt and shame
• Sin and redemption
• Hypocrisy and judgement
• Nature and the supernatural
• Gender and power

Setting

• Individual
  
• Gothic
• Forest

Setting

Quotes

"It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society." (Chapter 1)

Quotes

"Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!" (Chapter 3)

Quotes

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." (Chapter 20)

Quotes

"The scarlet letter had not done its office." (Chapter 24)

02:09

What is the name of Hester's daughter?

02:25

Where stands the letter ''A'' for?

Opinion

Debate time!

" The Scarlet letter is a work of feminist literature''