Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog

Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog

Thursday, October 25, 2012

public shame vs private

I was thinking about doing private shame VS. Public shame. Hester is publicly humiliated from her scarlet A on her chest. I want to talk about how both of these are effective. Also, i want  to show how a punishment is worth it to make a better person. I also want to talk about dimmesdale, how he is not publically humiliated, but in private he is always in shame. The public does not know about his shame. only chillingworth knows about dimmesdales shame. private shame is worse then public shame. dimmesdale always is suffering when he is alone. he suffers worse then hester does in the public. hesters public shame is not that bad. she does not conform. as for chillingworth, he confoms into society and therefore is gulty. he has private shame. to have shame, you must be humilitated, and to be humiliated you must have sined. To sin you need to have a secret. and that secret creates the shame that hester, dimmesdale, and chillingworth experiance. they all exoperiance their own types of shame, and they experiance them in different ways.  129(good page)  dimmesdale conforms and is shameful. He conforms into society by trying to get revenge on dimmesdale.

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