Man's Conscience In The Scarlet Letter
Written in 1850’s,The Scarlet Letter made Nathaniel Hawthorne even more acknowledged than he was and making other famous authors like James Henry place him on a higher pedestal than ever in stating in his Hawthorne about him that
“He was a beautiful, natural ,original genius and his life had been singularly exempt from worldly preoccupations and vulgar efforts .It had been as pure ,as simple ,as unsophisticated , as his work .He had lived primarily in his domestic affections ,which were of the tenderest kind; and then__ without eagerness , without pretension, but with a great deal of quiet devotion__ in his charming art. His work will remain ; it is too original and exquisite to pass away; among the men of imagination he will always have …show more content…
I think that he went further ,over the gender and religious boundaries and he subtly laid the first pillar on a feminine foundation .Why subtly, because he believed that sustaining the idea at that time when a strong transcendentalist current and part of the puritan heritage still persisted and influenced the people , would have caused chaos and confusion because it was a nameless and inexistent concept .As being a single pillar in the foundation of the concept it did not have a name nor reputation on which you can build upon. Also ,Hawthorne did not insist on accentuating the female independence in the 17th century called later feminism, a term coined by the French philosopher and utopian socialist Charles Fourier in 1837 and later materialized in the “Oxford English Dictionary “in 1895 . When Hawthorne compared Hester Prynne to the feminist movement of his own time, I think he might have done so as reproach. I think he sympathized with women's rights, but I also think he was concerned that extremist feminism might lead to social disorder and dissension ,much in the same way Hester's rebellion elicited disorder in her life and the lives of others. And I also consider that Hawthorne had a similar stance toward slavery. He was actively against
“He was a beautiful, natural ,original genius and his life had been singularly exempt from worldly preoccupations and vulgar efforts .It had been as pure ,as simple ,as unsophisticated , as his work .He had lived primarily in his domestic affections ,which were of the tenderest kind; and then__ without eagerness , without pretension, but with a great deal of quiet devotion__ in his charming art. His work will remain ; it is too original and exquisite to pass away; among the men of imagination he will always have …show more content…
I think that he went further ,over the gender and religious boundaries and he subtly laid the first pillar on a feminine foundation .Why subtly, because he believed that sustaining the idea at that time when a strong transcendentalist current and part of the puritan heritage still persisted and influenced the people , would have caused chaos and confusion because it was a nameless and inexistent concept .As being a single pillar in the foundation of the concept it did not have a name nor reputation on which you can build upon. Also ,Hawthorne did not insist on accentuating the female independence in the 17th century called later feminism, a term coined by the French philosopher and utopian socialist Charles Fourier in 1837 and later materialized in the “Oxford English Dictionary “in 1895 . When Hawthorne compared Hester Prynne to the feminist movement of his own time, I think he might have done so as reproach. I think he sympathized with women's rights, but I also think he was concerned that extremist feminism might lead to social disorder and dissension ,much in the same way Hester's rebellion elicited disorder in her life and the lives of others. And I also consider that Hawthorne had a similar stance toward slavery. He was actively against