Our author Lecturer Hande İSAOĞLU examined Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter and Herman Melville's Moby Dick in the light of Freudian psychoanalytic theory. During her analysis of the characters from a Freudian perspective, he also benefited from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Jacques Derrida's deconstruction theory. Psychoanalytic observations of the characters will allow readers to perceive the inner world of the characters and how their suppressed desires are revealed through their acti