Individual and Community in The Scarlet Letter.

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  • Author(s): Young, R. V.
  • Source:
    Intercollegiate Review. Fall2007, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p32-40. 9p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      INDIVIDUALISM; EQUALITY; SELF-interest; COLLECTIVISM (Social psychology); SCARLET Letter, The (Book : Hawthorne); HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
    • Abstract:
      The article deals with individualism as illustrated in the novel "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It states that the novel envisages individualism in terms of individual characters among the first generation colonists. These colonists consist of the men and women who participate in a hierarchical, authoritarian community that originates in a challenge to the authority and hierarchy of the English church and crown and a challenge based on the private interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures. The romance in the novel is set among people who have fled England in order to re-establish society on a surer ground as it were.