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Friday, October 29, 2010
3 scaffold scenes-sonja
I'm thinking about comparing and contrasting the three scaffold scenes in my paper. I could write about how different each of the scenes are, like how they each mean very different things. The first scene Hester stands with Pearl on the scaffold with the Scarlet Letter on her chest while the town stands and look at her, talking with each other and giving her shame. The second scene is of dimmesdale in his despair pretending he's telling everyone his secret. I could explain how different the two felt as they stood there. How Hester was calm and collected on the outside but really dying on the inside. Dimmesdale was letting out his despair and felt a new light inside of him even though it didn't change anything for him, his suffering still had to stay. Then the last scaffold scene, dimmesdale lets it all out. He stands with his lover and they're daughter and announces to everyone that he is the biggest sinner of all. His dark secret is finally out and he reveals his chets and whatever on it. after, he dies right there on the scaffold. He couldn't handle what had happened. All three of these scenes are very different, yet they all have huge meaning and all happen at the same place. I need to tie them together by how big of scenes they are, yet contrast them by how different the characters felt each time.
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this is a really good idea. all the scenes are different and they resemble how love grows throughout the novel
ReplyDeleteI like this idea a lot. I think that it will be a very good idea by taking each scene, then comparing and contrasting them. You should definitely talk about the affect the scaffold has on the community, on the specific people like Dimmesdale and Hester, and then in general what it means.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like a terrific approach to the novel, Sonja; however, the first thing you need to do is consider what the overall 'arc' of the novel is. How do we readers understand, for example, the conflict between Nature and Society at the start of the novel, and then at the end (or how do we see a particular character, or characters, differently at the end of the novel than at the beginning?). Once you've established what this 'arc' (or progression) is, you can then examine each scaffold scene as a different phase in this arc: beginning, middle and end.
ReplyDeleteThis should be a fun paper! I look forward to seeing a draft.