The Uniting

Scarlet Letter – Paper Nathaniel Hawthorne is an author that most certainly did not belong in the “Puritan Age,” but rather in the “Transcendentalist” time period. Hawthorne wrote “the Scarlet Letter” as an allegory to ask the question, “What is sin?” Hawthorne’s main focus of writing “The Scarlet Letter” as an allegory was to point out that the puritans were so focussed on sin and what people did wrong that they lost sight of how …showed first 75 words of 1136 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1136 total…the title of the book be “The Scarlet Letter.” The letter “A”, in all its various forms, develop the characters of the novel, the characteristics of the letter become the personalities of the characters and vice-versa. And of course, like in any writing piece, the characters develop the plot. So, in spite of Hawthorne's complicated writing style, he uses a simple letter to develop both the plot and the characters that encompass “The Scarlet Letter.”