A Comparison Of The Novel's 'The Scarlet Letter AndChicago'

The Scarlet Letter is about a woman named Hester Prynne and her crime of adultery. She had a baby with man who is not her husband, and she will not reveal who that man is. Throughout The Scarlet Letter Hester represents social injustice just as the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible do, and this injustice becomes accepted and leads to acceptance. Furthermore, Hester’s case represents injustice in the fact her case was unjustified and she was imprisoned on unfair judgement, just like the people convicted of witchcraft in Salem had been accused based off of opinion, not fact. Both have endings of acceptance of their “sin.”

In Chicago, the main plot revolves around women who murder the men in their lives that have caused some injustice. Each woman has a story to justify the reason why the men had to die. Billy Flynn is a charismatic criminal lawyer that has never lost a case for a female client. The proceedings in jail and in the courtroom are anything but legal and ethical. It is clear that the plot is not serious. This justifies the fact that the female prison inmates are allowed to interact with each other in song and dance. Also the so-called warden can also act as a contract agent to get the girls their own Vaudeville act. The main purpose of the show is to water down the book plot and add individual entertainers. This is done to integrate the Vaudeville quality within a musical. In doing so the courtroom and jail is paralleled with a nightclub scene. The main purpose to maintain the Vaudeville quality is suggesting the cliché "all the world's a stage." In

There is one version of the story in the musical Chicago, that was done before the musical first officially aired. The non-musical play that was called Chicago, that was written in 1926, by Maurine Watkins had a lot of similarities with the musical Chicago (“Maslon, Laurence, and Michael Kantor”). In the play Chicago, the story is about two murder cases that happened in real life (Miller, Scott). The first murder case is about a character name Beulah Annan, who had an affair on her husband, then her husband threatened to leave her, but Annan then Kills her husband (Miller, Scott). In the musical Chicago, the character Rosie has many similarities with Beulah. In fact, when the character Rosie is on trial during the musical, a lot of the things she said is derived directly from Annan’s case (Miller, Scott). The second murder case is against Belva Gaertner, who shot and killed her husband in her car (Miller, Scott). The character that has a lot of similarities with Belva, is Velma. Velma and Belva in both stories claim that they were too drunk to remember how they both murdered their loved ones (Miller, Scott).

In the movie problems related to the life of the gays are being addressed. In the other movie that is the Chicago, there is a vigorous and creative musical made all the more notable by the current death of cinematic musicals being produced. It is a reminder that the genre of the movie musical is not dead, but merely sleeping. Execution of justice and the Chicago deals with trail situation. The execution of justice is based on the true story and is considered really well in creating the great emotional impacts on the minds, as the situation that is presented by execution of justice based on the gay marriages and the AIDs issues that are actually the realities and the complications with these situations would always be true.

In chapter 16, how does Pearl show that she is different from the rest of the citizens of the community?

With all the news about violence in the city of Chicago, it’s a refreshing change for locals to watch musicals, especially if the story will take you to back to the city of Chicago in the 1920’s. During this time, there was a huge influx of killings sprees among the residents which is really not as inspiring as it should be. However, as a musical show, the storyline was presented through a fresh and entertaining approach.

Theology and Human Qualities Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter explores the elaborate theocracies of a seventeenth-century Puritan town in which the character Hester Prynne resides. Hawthorne suggests that human nature and its ability to make mistakes are caused by humanity’s innately imperfect nature. He shows the disbalance of power towards Puritan religious leaders as they control and shame those whose mistakes become visible. If one does not stay within the socially constructed borders, he or she becomes a threat to Puritan social order.

Films of this era are criticized for substituting violence and special effects for "substance". Many believe that creating a movie script is a juvenile form of writing, a shrub to the oak of a novel. Upon reading both the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and viewing the film produced by Roland Joffe, one notices the tremendous effort put into both. This essay will explore the many differences and similarities between the book and movie.

The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne consist of many hidden literary aspects and devices to help convey a multitude of themes. Hawthorne introduces the lives of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale as they find themselves in difficult situations full of right and wrong decisions. Hester, an adulterous forever marked with the scarlet letter ‘A’, is married to Chillingworth who makes it his duty to find and torture the man responsible for his wife’s infidelity, while Dimmesdale, the town's minister, has trouble revealing his own sin. Through the use of the literary devices diction and tone, Hawthorne presents the theme that the choices you make today, shape your life tomorrow in only either a positive or negative angle.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter” depicts a young woman, Hester Prynne, who committed adultery and bears a daughter, Pearl, because of the sin. Hester Prynne is then punished for her actions by being forced to wear the scarlet letter “A” by the community. This punishment produces many relationships between Hester and the community such as isolation, being a criminal, dependency, and the feeling of each other’s sin.

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an intriguing story which demonstrates how sin changes the way the sinner lives. The story begins when a woman called Hester Prynne is sent by her husband to Boston. Her husband was supposed to come soon after she arrived but, when he never came, it was decided that his ship was lost at sea. Presently, Hester commits adultery with a theologian named Dimmesdale. Once convicted, Hester is forced to wear a scarlet colored “A”. Although everyone believed Hester’s husband had died, he was, in fact, alive. When Hester’s husband, Chillingworth, notices the scarlet letter upon his wife’s clothes, he seeks revenge on the man who slept with her. The sins Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth committed changed their lives forever.

The Harry Potter series is arguably the most well known sequence of books and movies of all time. Harry, a heroic wizard, is portrayed as a Christ figure throughout the series, assisting friends, family, and strangers before himself. He is also marked by the wound of another with a scar, and that disfigurement defines him as a person to those who may be unfamiliar to him. He possesses some of the qualities of another fictional character, written about over two centuries before him. Hester Prynne is marked by her scarlet letter, giving people a preconceived notion about who she is, similar to Harry’s iconic scar. She also puts others before herself, including those who had betrayed her trust (Dimmesdale), similar to Harry saving his enemy Draco from being engulfed in flame in the seventh installment of the series. These acts of selflessness shown by these characters resemble the actions of Christ, and allude back to the Bible. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne alludes to Christianity and the Bible to expose the Puritan’s rigid dogmatism that fails to appreciate his endorsement of love, tolerance, and mercy prevalent throughout the novel.

The novel, The Scarlet Letter, shows how many members of a puritan society respond to the act of sin specifically the act of adultery.The reactions between the adulterers and community vastly contrasted in three different ways. Hester Prynne, one of the adulterers, responds to her sin in her very own personal way by wearing the scarlet letter on her chest. Reverend Dimmesdale, the other adulterer, responds punishing himself. The community responds to the sin of adultery by publicly shaming Hester Prynne.

Just because books are different does not mean that they cannot entertain the same audience. The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that takes place in the 1700s. Warrior Cats is a series of novels written by a group of people who call themselves Erin Hunter. I used to read Warrior Cats when I was younger, but I have a more advanced reading level now. These books have a lot more differences than similarities.

“The real sin of this ‘Scarlet Letter’ [film] is that it doesn’t respect the concept of sin” (Ansen). Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter delves deeper into the explicitness of sin, shame, and guilt. Set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during Puritan colonization, the characters have strong relationships with God and a sturdy foundation in their beliefs and church. Puritans rely on the concept of predestination, the belief that God has decided whether one is saved or damned before their birth (Heyrman). This gives some great security, but others become anxious and stressed due to the constant wondering. Many attempt to live the life they believe is the most pleasing to God as a way to prove they are worthy of Heaven, but this belief causes melodrama and a strict, pretentious lifestyle. The Scarlet Letter thoroughly encompasses this 1800s era conduct to a much better extent than the 1995 movie adaptation. The “freely adapted” movie scarcely attempts to emulate the book, merely pleasing the audience with a rough outline of the 1850’s novel.