Diction and Narrative Structure: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne has the diction of modern English back in the 1850 where it was first published in Boston. Though the setting took place in the 1640s in the time period of the middle of the seventeenth century. It took place in Boston, Massachusetts. When the narrator speaks its closer to modern English then when the characters speak. The book is written in a Omniscient point of view because the narrator knows what other characters think and say even when the protagonist is not included in the conversation. The protagonist is Hester Prynne and during section one of the novel I have seen a dynamic character in her. Hester Prynne is a dynamic character because she went from not showing any shame to the public to trying to make up for it after she was released from jail. The protagonist has both internal and external conflicts. Internal because she was not easy on her self after doing time in jail, Hester continued isolating her self "Hester Prynne, therefore, did not flee. On the outskirts of town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage" (Hawthorne,55). Hester did not want to run from her problems and so she continued living with the red A on her chest because it is a part of what made her. Hester had external conflicts Roger Chillingworth because he wanted revenge.
Theme and Symbol: The major theme in the novel is sin and specifically the sin of committing adultery. It is connected with the main symbol in the novel because the Symbol is a red A which means sin of adultery. Other symbols would be the rosebush by the prison door which represents the towns grass plot before it became a prison.
