Literature at Amazonica State University
Introduction
The story starts with the public trial of Hester Prynne in the Plaza de la Boston incipient and Puritana of the mid -seventeenth century. She is accused of adultery by having an illegitimate daughter while her husband had not yet arrived in America. Hester is condemned to show off the scarlet of adultera in her chest to wear her shame forever. Although judges, magistrates and reverends question Hester on numerous occasions to find out who is her daughter’s father, Pearl, the woman refuses to reveal him. Even given the adversities imposed over the years a severe, rigid and inflexible people, Hester continually demonstrates a courage, dignity, an extraordinary loyalty and resignation that will even enforce the admiration of the same community that abomers.
First of all mention that the novel is completely different from the movie. On the one hand the film adaptation focuses on the prohibited love prior to the severe judgment of the people of Boston (what she sells; a lot of passionate sex and cloying phrases). Instead, Hawthorne’s original novel starts with the trial and focuses on the life of Hester Prynne after the conviction, without the father’s character (whom I think about the anonymity for not any spoiler throughout the review , although you only need to read the synopsis or see the trailer to discover it) have so much prominence. To put it in some way, the film focuses on him a priori of the trial and the novel in him a posteriori. Thus, we are not facing an impossible love story, but before a narrative that portrays the hypocrisy of society focusing on the suffering of the protagonist. Second, what I liked most about the book was the way Hawthorne portrays the society of that time and Hester Prynne. It is a short book and we see how the narrative is basically divided into two parts: the first is the condemnation of the protagonist whose courage, goodness, discretion and nobility the part in one of those unforgettable characters that rarely a reader is lucky to meet. The second part focuses more on the suffering of the Father, which does not confess due to lack of poise and value, and the revenge that Hester’s old husband plans, Roger Chillingworth, against him when finally arrives.
Developing
In the period of time when the scarlet lyrics take place, there was no feminist in the modern sense, however, Hester’s character combines traditional ideas of female behavior with a rebel and free thought perspective that can be seen as a precursor to the posterior feminist philosophy. When the reader sees it for the first time, Hester is described as a beautiful new mother who looks like the Virgin Mary. The Virgin Mary is the last symbol of female piety, but she is also, like Hester, a woman who conceived a son out of marriage. Hester has similarly challenged the convention, but in the case of it the involvement of it is that she has had sex for pleasure, not only for procreation. She further challenges her community by refusing to name the baby’s father. Since the authorities of her society are all men, this negative is the only type of power that Hester can affirm. The authorities can punish her, but they cannot force her to reveal her secret. When claiming the only way of power available to her, the power to keep a secret, Hester shows a feminist agency about her own life.
Hester’s reaction to her punish. She is a devout mother and the skillful seam of her aligns her with a traditional female occupation that is considered appropriate and respectable. But her status hardworking mother, completely responsible for the well -being of her daughter, but also free to raise Pearl as she wants, makes Hester a model of female self-sufficiency. Similarly, the isolation of her and independence allow her to question ideas that most people take for granted: the scarlet letter was her passport to regions that other women did not dare to step on. She comes to see that many of the expectations and ideas that govern people’s behavior in reality have no other purpose than to create social control. In particular, Hester realizes that women are unfairly treated and, often, live unhappy lives as a result: the very nature of the opposite sex … which seems like a fair and adequate position.
Hester express feminist trends when she asks Dimmesdale to leave New England and begin a new life with her and Pearl, but the eventual return of her to her community demonstrates a more appropriate personal independence and personal release. While talking with Dimmesdale, Hester starts the scarlet lyrics and removes the cap to let go of his hair, symbolizing her rejection of society’s attempts to control her. While the scarlet lyrics are a punishment specifically designed for her, any respectable woman of the time would have used a cap, so Hester is rejecting all the ways in which women are subject to patriarchal control: her sex, her youth and the set the richness of its beauty returned. However, despite this rebel behavior, the novel ends when Hester voluntarily returns to New England and continues to use the scarlet lyrics. This is hardly a feminist act of rebellion.
But when using the letter by choice, not by obligation, Hester continues with his feminist self-determination. As he continues to support other women who fight in the community, he extends their personal liberation to others who suffer from patriarchy. By living the life she chooses, Hester embodies powerful ideas about the women’s agency and equality. Extend her personal liberation to others suffering under the patriarchy. By living the life she chooses, Hester embodies powerful ideas about the women’s agency and equality. Extend her personal liberation to others suffering under the patriarchy. By living the life that chooses, Hester embodies powerful ideas about the women’s agency and equality.
conclusion
In conclusion, a classic of American literature, a sad and hard story, focused on its melancholic characters, which portrays the innate hypocrisy of society yesterday emanating from religious stiffness, today although the origin is more subtle the result is not much better. An essential and more than adequate reading for the last International Women’s Day.
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