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Keeping aside all the consolidated theories of gender traditions, the postmodern feminist approach to women's attitude towards social restrictions and religious canons, can be analyzed to find the true identity of the 19th century American woman. Such restrictions influenced his passions; he derived his true happiness and freedom beyond the man-made moral and religious systems of marriage and post-marital life. Man's systems of morality and hypocrisy have tampered with femininity and her privacy to choose a life beyond her tolerance and patience. The feminist approach to women is strongly opposed to the socio-religious and andocentric hegemony over women's natural choice of life. The postmodern feminist perspective of dividing woman from man has created a stereotypical position. It can also be analyzed from a postmodern feminist argument. Introduction: Feminism is inseparable from postmodernism. Most social science research was in fact conducted by feminists in the second half of the 20th century. Many feminists have abandoned the liberal feminism of the 18th century and responded to the foundational philosophical discourses of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the postmodern period, feminist observations and discourses have become important. Postmodern feminists have rejected all male-centered theories regarding truth, reality and traditions, etc. They do not accept the universality of the ideals of philosophy, reason and theory that have been promoted politically. against the ideology of women. They consider them theories popularized by the experience of men and women, ideologies and paradigms have never been part of any major established theories. They also deny the modernism that has been projected by the male centered in… middle of paper… or. Ltd, 1879. Print.9. Kaul, a character and motive in The Scarlet Letter. Critical Quarterly 10 1968, pp. 373-84. Print.10. Leone, Bruno, ed. Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne. San Diego: Green Haven Press, 1996. Print.11. Male, The Tragic Vision of Roy R. Hawthorne. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1957. Print.12. Rahv, Philip. The Dark Lady of Salem. Partisan Review 8 1941, pp. 362-81. Print.13. Tasty, Theodore. The art of translation. London: Chief. 1957. Print.14. Stewart, Randall. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948. Print.15. Swisher, Clarice. Understanding the Scarlet Letter. Maine: Lucent Books. 2003. Print.16. Thorslev, Peter L., Jr. The Byronic Hero: Types and Prototypes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1962. Print.17. Van Doren, Marco. Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: William Sloane, 1957. Print.