A social psychological approach on puritanism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Natanto, Yudha Trio (2005) A social psychological approach on puritanism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

A literary work creates an imaginary world which expresses real world. The relationship between literary work and reality offers transformation from a real problem into subject matter in literary work. The subject matter which is usually talked about is universal which is not restricted only to the place where it is written. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter expresses the aspect of relationship, religion, community, discipline and punishment in the puritan community of Boston in 17th century. The relationship between men and women is very constrained and that is what made adultery such a bad sin in the eyes of everyone in the community. Religion seems to govern over all, people would look up to the reverends. The community believes that fate is their destiny. Public discipline and punisment is used to discourage everyone else for committing crime or sin. As a student interested in literature, the writer tries to find out the stem of society's behaviors which reflect puritanism by analyzing the choosen novel, The Scarlet Letter. In line with the above background, the aims of the study are (1) To find out the background of characters' behavior in The Scarlet Letter. (2) To find out the way puritanism revealed through the characters. The background of characters' behavior on The Scarlet Letter leads to the various behavioral patterns. The Description of characters' life experience in The Scarlet Letter show the background of their action. In treatment with the person who is considered as a sinner, in this case Hester Prynne, some of characters' behavior in The Scarlet Letter, namely John Wilson, Roger Chilling worth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Governor Bellingham clearly reflect puritanism as shown in their unfair treatment towards Hester Prynne. The library research is applied in this study to find the relevant theoretical based on the puritanism. They are then, used to analize the data. Furthermore, theoretical based is also used to find the data. The data are all the words, the phrase or clauses that contain puritanism. By using the data, the researcher describes puritanism on the novel entitled The Scarlet Letter.

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