ARTICLE
Guilty Feeling as a Catalyst of Moral Transformation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Michel PODA & Adama Sabine MOYENGA
- Revue Akiri, Revue des sciences humaines et sociales, Lettres, Langues et Civilisations , 3 (3) : 1-20
Lien de l'article :
doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/akiri.v3i3.1
Discipline :
Langues et littératures
Auteur(s) :
Michel PODA, Adama Sabine MOYENGA
Auteur(s) tagués :
PODA Michel
Renseignée par : PODA Michel
Résumé
Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the greatest American writers of his time, is well known for the highly moral
inclination of his works. Among other themes dealt with in his works guilt appears as a recurrent topic, worth
investigating deeply. Relying on a close reading together with the Reader-Response and psychoanalytic theories,
this study explores the theme of guilt in his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, with a view of showing the
transformative moral function assigned to it.
Mots-clés
The Scarlet Letter, guilt, moral transformation, catalyst.