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    The article analyzes The Scarlet Letter using a New Historicist approach to understand Hawthorne's conservative and antirevolutionary ideology. It examines Hawthorne's introduction, the social rules of 19th century America, and historical evidence from the Antislavery and Feminist Movements. The analysis finds Hawthorne carefully structured the novel to reflect his views, showing it is both a product of its time and a representation of history.

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    The article analyzes The Scarlet Letter using a New Historicist approach to understand Hawthorne's conservative and antirevolutionary ideology. It examines Hawthorne's introduction, the social rules of 19th century America, and historical evidence from the Antislavery and Feminist Movements. The analysis finds Hawthorne carefully structured the novel to reflect his views, showing it is both a product of its time and a representation of history.

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    The article analyzes The Scarlet Letter using a New Historicist approach to understand Hawthorne's conservative and antirevolutionary ideology. It examines Hawthorne's introduction, the social rules of 19th century America, and historical evidence from the Antislavery and Feminist Movements. The analysis finds Hawthorne carefully structured the novel to reflect his views, showing it is both a product of its time and a representation of history.

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    The passage discusses Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter and how it reflects Hawthorne's conservative and antirevolutionary ideology.

    The objective is to explain how the structure, characters, and themes of The Scarlet Letter are carefully crafted to serve conservative attitudes.

    The methodology used is new historicism, which looks at both the author's life and beliefs as well as the social and historical context of the time period.

    Name of The Journal Journal of Language Studies

    Title Conservative And Antirevolutionary Ideology In


    The Scarlet Letter: A New Historicist Analysis

    Year 2007

    To explicates how the structure,


    Objective characterizations and themes of The Scarlet
    Letter are carefully formed to serve those very
    conservative attitudes.

    Methodology : Object The Scarlet Letter

    Methodology : Approach New Historicism

    1. Life of The Author


    Hawthorne's inclusion of "The Custom House"
    sketch, an authorial introduction to the novel,
    provides the reader with a peek into the
    author's nineteenth-century cultural setting. In
    the sketch Hawthorne informs his readers how
    he had lost his position as surveyor at the
    Salem Custom-House, a personal experience
    that led him back to his writing table.

    In "The Custom House," Hawthorne implicitly


    compares the victory of the Whigs over the
    Democrats to revolution gone wrong in Europe
    when he at one point refers to the sketch as
    Methodology : Data Analysis "POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A DECAPITATED
    SURVEYOR"

    2. The Social Rules


    19th century American could be divided into
    two stages. The first stage is "the era of revival;
    a spirit, that of a crusade against sin". It marked
    the rise of somewhat religious awareness
    among Americans "to rid the world of sin, and
    to usher in the millennium". The rise of such
    theological awareness in America consequently
    magnified a number of America's social ills.
    Issues of slavery and women's rights were
    among those stressed. Resulting from this,
    reformation took over as the second stage of
    that period. Awareness about the nation's sins
    is transformed into actions, The Antislavery
    Movement and The Feminist Movement.

    3. Historical Evidence
     The Antislavery Movement
    The election of General Zachary Taylor, a Whig,
    to the Presidency was largely influenced by the
    support it received through its anti-slavery
    campaign. This presidential election which
    eventually led to Hawthorne's dismissal from
    his post at the Custom-House is much resented
    by him. What we get from "The Custom House"
    is a narrator who possesses instincts that are
    conservative and antirevolutionary.

     The Feminist Movement


    In 1848, a year before Hawthorne started
    writing the novel, the first American Women's
    Rights Convention was held at Seneca Falls.
    Hawthorne disapproved the movement's
    attempt to correct and mend what he regarded
    as "natural law." However, he always has mixed
    feelings toward her struggle for women's rights.

    Process of reformations taking place in America


    has influenced Hawthorne's shaping of this
    novel. He carefully structured the novel to
    Finding and Results project his conservative and antirevolutionary
    ideology. The Scarlet Letter is thus an artefact
    of history, the history of a complex nineteenth-
    century America, as well as a “mythical”
    representation of the history of a previous
    culture.
    Methodology

    Concerning on 3 main point

    The life of the author: the author’s beliefs reflect both individual concern of society

    Social rules and dictates found within text: the standard of behavior as reflected in society’s rules of
    decorum must also be investigated

    Reflection of a work’s historical situation as evidenced in the text: must be viewed as an artistic work
    that reflect on behavioral codes.

    We need to put those theory together because if we miss one of them, it will be an old historicism.

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