Different novels may bring to the reader different tones and moods. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, may make the readers feel depressed because the tone and mood are ironic, gloomy, and dark. Due to the tone and mode the color dark red and song, “There is a Light that Never Goes Out,” by The Smith is relatable to the Scarlet Letter. Tone is known as the attitude of the author towards the reader and mood is known as a literary element were the reader gains feelings from emotion and descriptions. Throughout the novel the tone and mood seem to stay the same and continuously becomes more and more ironic. Readers may infer that the tone is ironic. This is due to the fact that Hester is being punished and no one knows that the priest is guilty as well, and Dimmesdale knowing he sinned and feeling like he should be punished while the townspeople don't think he”s guilty. For example on page 122, “He had been driven hither by the insisted and closely linked companion was that cowardice which impulse had hurried him back to the verge of a disclosure.” This example shows not only the ironic tone but the dark mood as well because of how he feels that what he’s done should be punished. The color dark red is …show more content…
While most of the book is ironic it is dark as well. For example Hawthorne wrote, “‘What choice had you?’ asked Roger Chillingworth. ‘My finger, pointed at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon, —thence,