Scarlet Letter And Chicago Case Study

Hester Prynne's guilt is the result of her committing adultery, which has a significant effect on her life. Hester is publicly seen with the scarlet letter when she first emerges out of the cold

The doctrine of Primitivism, which declares people closer to nature as more noble and pure, can be used to analyze chapter 18 of The Scarlet Letter in a manner that paints a reborn Hester and Dimmesdale, being in the forest, as more noble and pure than that of their society of developed Puritans. Hester Prynne, being in the wilderness, throws off the stigmatic letter sewn upon her by her peers: “So speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves”. The scarlet letter symbolizes her place in Puritan society, being an adulterer. The Puritans, being firm believers in predestination, never allowed Hester to truly flourish and live, and instead,

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne’s act of adultery with Arthur Dimmesdale (Hawthorne 231) ultimately leads to negative and positive impacts on her life, including being isolated from everyone in town, being mocked and gossiped about, being more mature, and being more compassionate. One of the negative

In The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne is more than a literary figure in a classic novel, she is known by some people to be one of the earliest American Hero’s. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester commits adultery and has a child that she must care for all alone. She is forced to wear a powerful, attention grabbing “Scarlet A” on her chest while she must try to make a living to support her and her child, Pearl. Even though she must face all the harsh judgment and stares she does not allow her sin to stop her from living a successful life. She looks past the Letter as a symbol of sin and turns it into a sign of approval. Hester

Society has unintentionally been guided by the same themes since the beginning of time. The recurring themes that are present in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter are still relevant in today’s society. When high school students and teachers claim that Hawthorne’s novel is archaic and should be removed from the curriculum, they are absolutely wrong. Hester Prynne, the main character of the novel, commits adultery and as punishment, has to wear a scarlet letter “A” on her chest for everyone to see. Throughout the novel, Hester is faced with obstacles such as the struggle between self and society and the burden of publicly suffering for her sins. Despite a substantial amount of time having passed since Puritan times, the themes that Hester Prynne had to experience are still pertinent. Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, is driven mad by his incessant need for revenge and in society today there are many occasions where people are plagued with the desire to seek vengeance. There are some instances in life where human nature takes over without people even realizing and revenge is one of them. Also, people are right when they say “history repeats itself” because some of these themes never go away. The Scarlet Letter takes place in the strict religious time of the 1600’s and although the book seems outdated and obsolete, the ideas inside are still relevant and therefore high school students should continue to read this work

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne decides to be unfaithful to her husband Roger Chillingworth with minister, Arthur Dimmesdale because she is lonely while her husband is gone and she has gotten feelings for Dimmesdale over time. Hester then gets pregnant and has to deal with the consequences for being an adulterous. In Chicago, Roxie Hart cheats on her husband, Amos Hart, with their furniture salesman, Fred Casely because Roxie has always wanted to be a star and Casely told her over and over again, “You’re a star, kid! My little shooting star!” Casely claimed that he knew a guy that would get Roxie into show business, but he lied about that just so he can sleep with her and when Roxie finds that out, she goes insane and shoots him. This contrasts to The Scarlet Letter because after Hester has an affair with Dimmesdale, she does not kill Dimmesdale, instead she keeps her head up, keeps the baby, forgives Dimmesdale, and attempts to get Chillingworth to back off. Chillingworth has made it his goal to ruin the lives of Hester and Dimmesdale because although he expected her to cheat on him, he feels betrayed and he has anger towards Dimmesdale for sleeping with his wife and impregnating her.

In The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne committed adultery which led people to shame her. In the 1850’s adultery was a big sin and it wasn’t something done often. As well as in Chicago, Roxie Hart committed adultery during the roaring twenties and she even killed her lover, Fred Casely, because she didn’t get what she wanted from him. Both the novel and film are similar in the way that adultery is the big factor in the stories. Hester and Roxie were the adulterous but both husbands reacted in different ways. Hester and Roxie both committed sins.

Hester Prynne ,in the novel The Scarlet Letter, was false to her husband by cheating on him due to she didn’t truly love him and didn’t feel the same as he did for her. Prynne also committed adultery since she felt as though she ruined her youth and was left wanting more. By marrying her husband of such different age had her questioning many things. For instance, she wonder if her beauty was not to be cherish and appreciated.

Both ladies Roxie and Hester commit a crime that is seen as severe in their era, but their crimes are different. In “The Scarlet Letter”, Hester Prynne’s crime is adultery, because during this time of colonial America, their laws are based on the Ten Commandments and if they are broken the punishment is death. In “Chicago”, Roxie Hart’s crime is killing the person she had an

        In reality, the Scarlet Letter is many things. It has all the characteristics of a modern-day soap opera, but it is way more than some television show cast on ABC. It could be a sermon being shouted from a church attendee, but no; the Puritans are surely not the heroes in this novel. It could be a story of failure, for there are many failures cast upon the main characters, or it could be a story of revenge from an angry husband. And, maybe it could even be a story of creativity-- the attempt of one to see their artistic side in a community who disapproves a mind of imagination. The novel could mean a multitude of things, only noticed

Chapter seven of the Scarlet Letter, titled the Leech, is a simple yet fitted title for this chapter. It seems that Hawthorne Intentionally decides to name this chapter the Leech, because the words a entendre. In this chapter Dimmesdale and Chillingworth move in together, in order for Chillingsworth to take care of the ill Dimmesdale. A Leech, in puritan times, meant a physician which is opportune for this chapter since Chillingsworth is a physician, but Chillingworth’s has a ultramotive. Chillingsworth is determined to seek Dimmesdale's secret, and as leeches tend to suck the blood out of their victims Chillingsworth in a sense, is doing the same thing. Hawthorne is able to make such a simple title have

In the stories of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the antagonist characters display parallel story lines through their searches for the enemy. Roger Chillingworth, the former husband of Hester Prynne and the antagonist of The Scarlet Letter, works against his wife in order to find her untold second lover. Frankenstein is a contrasting story in which an unnamed monster is the antagonist towards his human creator, Dr. Frankenstein. Yet despite quite different story lines, the two characters possess traits that exibit parallels between them. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth displays the startling passionate characteristics of an unwavering drive to seek out his foe, madness as his focus on his search takes over his entire being, and terrible anguish when his task is unexpectedly over, all of which are reflected in the daemon created at the hand of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein.

In the Scarlet Letter, the characters made decisions that impacted them the rest of their lives, especially Hester who chose to commit adultery and have a child with a man who wasn’t her husband. Hester made a huge mistake and had to deal with everyone choosing to discriminate her for what she had done. No one chose to realize that there are two people at fault in this situation. In the book it states, “Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet letter in the market place” (Hawthorne,1984, p. 63). The purpose of this quote was to let the reader make inferences about how Hester may have been about to be treated in the marketplace for what she had done.

“Women belong in the kitchen.” “All women should be barefoot and pregnant.” “Women are strictly homemakers.” These are a few of the commonly used phrases regarding the female role in society that date back to the mid-seventeenth century. However, ardent supporters of gender equality have surfaced in almost every culture where this ideology is practiced. Nathaniel Hawthorne explores this inveterate societal conflict through his story The Scarlet Letter. The main character, Hester Prynne, is punished for committing adultery by being forced to wear a scarlet letter upon her bosom; Hawthorne created a story sympathetic to the female cause and demonstrated, through Hester, qualities of early feminism that later establish themselves during his

"The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent!" This quote from Jean Baptiste Racin summarizes The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne in one sentence. The novel's main focus is on three main characters and how the sins they commit affect their lives in the strict Puritan town of Boston around the year 1642. Hawthorne was very knowledgeable of his Puritan ancestry and shows it by incorporating some important thoughts and traditions into this story about sin and confession. Throughout the novel, the physical, social, mental and emotional changes that result from sin in the lives of the characters are never positive and the outcome of their spiritual