What is Hawthorne trying to tell us through his work and how does he get his message across?

Uncover Nathaniel Hawthorne’s deeper meaning of The Scarlet Letter.
Write a persuasive essay (800-1,000 words long) in which you present a thesis and develop an argument that in some way addresses ONE of the following questions:
What is Hawthorne trying to tell us through his work and how does he get his message across? (To answer this question, you would focus your analysis on one literary device and how Hawthorne uses it to convey whatever message you say he is conveying.)
What value crisis does this work raise and how is it represented in the novel?
What does one character’s emotions and behavior reveal about his/her psychological state? This is the question I want to use
How are class differences presented in the work? Are characters aware or unaware of the economic and social forces that affect their lives?
What ideological values are explicit or implicit? What impact do the have on the novel?
Does the work challenge or affirm the social order it describes? How so?
What is Hawthorne saying about the human condition through his work? How/Through what manner is he saying it?
What political or social ideas does the novel advance?
How are the lives of men OR women portrayed in the work? Do the men OR women accept or reject their role in the novel?
Here a tip for writing this paper: A lot of your answer can tie back into a literary device.
Hawthorne uses the image of _____ to illustrate______.
Hawthorne uses the setting of _____ to reinforce the idea that _____.
Hawthorne uses the symbol of _______ to represent ______.
You will need to conduct research and do the following:
Cite at least one secondary sources from the Goleman Library Resources or Google Scholar.
Use summary, paraphrase, and direct quotes (minimum of five direct quotes) from your selected work to support your thesis and prove your sub-claims.
MLA formatting must be used throughout the paper.
Essay Outline
Introduction (no more than 100-125 words)
Brief synopsis of the novel (don’t give too many details; save the details for the body paragraphs)
Thesis
Supporting Paragraph 1
Focus this paragraph on one example from the text
Supporting Paragraph 2
Focus this paragraph on another example from the text
Supporting Paragraph 3 (optional)
Focus this paragraph on yet another example from the text
Conclusion (no more than 100-125 words)
Restate your thesis and reinforce why your interpretation of the text is a plausible interpretation.
NOTE: Your supporting paragraphs should not be summaries of the novel. They should offer a deep explanation of how and why. The majority of your body paragraphs should be comprised of your own analysis of the novel. There are no wrong answers, so don’t worry about being right or wrong. Each person interprets a text differently, so your interpretation of the novel is not incorrect. Where you can go wrong, however, is whether you summarize and not analyze or confuse details of the story.

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