Confront or Evade—An Elementary Analysis on the Choices of “A” in The Scarlet Letter
Abstract
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work The Scarlet Letter is a world’s literary masterpiece. Based on the theory of spiritual ecocriticism, this paper analyzes the diff erent choices of the three protagonists from the perspective of the theme of sin, and explores how they fi nally achieve the spiritual ecological balance.
Keywords
The scarlet letter “A”; Sin; Salvation; Spiritual ecocriticism
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i9.8062
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