Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog

Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog

Friday, October 29, 2010

Nature Verse Society

For my Scarlet Letter writing promt I want to write about Nature Verse Society in Nathaniel Hawthorne. I am planning on taking three different aspects from nature and then expanding on them and talking about what I think the author thought they portrayed. I am going to look at the rose bush, the sunshine, and the forest. I also want to take the meaning of his nature and compare it with the meaning of his society. I want to expand on the clashes and things that nature and society disagree on and maybe even some of the things they have in familiar. Then by comparing and contrasting I will decide whether Hawthorne thinks society or nature are better and why. I'm going to take passages from the forest as well as the rose bush passages and sunshine passages and compare them with each other and with passages talking about society. I want to broaden the readers view on nature on how it affects people such as Pearl, Hester, and Dimmesdale. I also want to discuss what nature means to these specific characters by taking the forest context.

1 comment:

  1. This seems like an excellent approach to the novel, but you need to start by locating IN THE TEXT passages which will help you develop your discussion and help you persuade your reader. Keep in mind clear symbols of nature, on the one hand (the rose, sunshine, etc) and society on the other (the scaffold). I'm anxious to see a draft of this!

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