he scarlet letter, written by Hawthorne, is a typical work of American Romanticism. The novel, written in the 18th century, narrates a story happened in Boston in the 17th century when Puritans came to the new world after the persecution of England. Specifically, it depicts a story of the pain that Hester, a young woman bound by unreasonable marriage, has to bear when she betrays her marriage and belief. Through a Cyclical Systems of Cultural Archetypes indicated in the novel demonstrated in Research on the Humanized Puritanism of Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter, the story is divided into 5 parts, which not only shows the narrative order, but also ,from my perspective, reflects the writer’s view of the duality-respect and rebellion of the religion at that time. Furthermore, this report also discusseshow these two opposing attitudes towards puritanism are shown in the context through the plot order and how this feature makes the novel epic.