The scarlet letter is a ponderous novel. It is deep and wieghty and the main theme is hypocarcy.
Themain question I have, is that I feel that is has been over exagerrated are these sins because if she had truly no idea that her husnband was not dead,then how is it a true sin. If she truly had fallen in love and concieved a child out of passion I do not understand the circumstance to its full potential yet. I feel as if, Chillington had been there and she had willingly slept with the minister then it would have been through sin and guilt. However, I do think the biggtest sin is Dimmsdale himself. he is a weak individual that is daily torn apart, that he can not announce his actions and he lets the one he loved qand still has feeling for suffer, daily. If he was a man at all he would be able to confront himself as well as thepublic and merely take it as a learning aspect in his life. He is a good man, that did bad and clearly did learn from it. He could teach others lessons but instead he is a hyporcite that teaches people the bible and how they need to live for the right things and desire to incorp[orate good in their life and l;ive sin free and if they do sin they need to give back to society.
Hester Prynne has commited sin and been sinned greatly herself. She has a great sense of dignity and honor and she withholds it. She is a respectedfigure in my mind because she wants to help others and teach and praise still, yet she is out of luck considering MANY MANY people sin and yet she is the only one who hhas to wear a letter for her sin. Through out the book there is a great amount opf imagery much with nature because nature is the pl;ace where they can be themselves and let loose and see the devil and converse with who they really are. It is a meeting place and a signature that represents characters. I like the book. it is deep and full of thoughts and you have to put the pieces together.
I think this novel is very ponderous too! There are a lot of ideas that it portrays. Most of them are confusing like the sins you just explained. I like your word choice jo jo! good job
ReplyDeleteIndeed, very ponderous. I agree with Jo I feel if Hester married without loving her partner without even wanting to how did she commit a sin? She found true love while her forced upon marriage might have of been over by her husbands death. Is she expected to not love again? I believe that she did not commit a sin and her husband forcing her into marriage commited the sin through their marriage.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying putting the pieces together (and you seem to have a good sense of the overall puzzle at this point). I'm anxious to see what you think of the novel's conclusion.
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