LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 7 July 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Puritan and Vietnamese Views on Self, Sin, Love and Moral Mission -
Present-Day Vietnamese Readers’ Views at
Hue College of Foreign Languages

Nguyen Trong Nhan, M.A.
Ho Thi Lai, M.TESOL

Introduction

General thoughts of morality and justice have held the first place in American literature and philosophy (Smith, 1934). The Scarlet Letter written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne appears to be a valuable novel for readers to consider opposite issues including conventional versus unconventional gender roles and presumed guilt versus innocence. Many English-majored students and EFL teachers at Hue College of Foreign Languages, Vietnam, showed their sympathy to the forbidden love affair linking Arthur Dimmesdale, a religious and respectable minister, with Hester Prynne, a sensitive and beautiful wife assuming her husband’s death at sea. Adultery, in this case, becomes a disputable issue between humiliation of society and true love for oneself.

This article explains why and how a relationship outside marriage like Prynne and Dimmesdale’s received such a widespread sympathy from contemporary Vietnamese readers. Therefore, the paper is not an effort to criticize the Puritan values, but it compares and contrasts the Puritan and Vietnamese views on self, sin, love and moral mission. In addition, this investigation aims to provide those interested in American Romanticism and Nathaniel Hawthorne with a deeper interpretation of historical perspective and personal issues.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Nguyen Trong Nhan, M.A.
English Department
Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport
No. 2, D3 Street, Van Thanh Bac Site, Ward 25, Binh Thanh District
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
nguyentrongnhan120784@gmail.com

Ho Thi Lai, M.TESOL
English Department
Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment
236B, Le Van Sy Street, Ward 1, Tan Binh District
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
lai6af.ho@gmail.com
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