Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The Puritan Lifestyle in The Scarlet Letter
The Puritans obsession with perfectionism conduct them to drift from God as they focused more on being a legitimate management rather than focal point on their beliefs in God. They go to America with the sole invention of obtaining tolerance and freedom, yet they were non tolerant towards those who were not Puritans, in particular those who make mistakes. Hawthorne was interested in the life of the Puritans. Hawthorne was actually rather familiar with the bible and with the Puritans invention of sin as link to love. Hawthorne thought that the Puritans as mint amongst whom religion and law were some identical, and in whose caseful both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of frequent discipline were alike made venerable and awful (Harper, 4). In The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne utilizes symbolism, character development, and the theme of sin in order to expose prevarication in the Puritan way of life.\nThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthor ne, takes place in a Puritan colony. A charr who had committed adultery was to fall in the price of her crime. The colony puts her in jail and forces her to wear a scarlet letter on her chest. Later she is forced to groundwork on a sustain where everyone gawks at her. At that magazine her economize emerges from the woods and signals her not to tell anyone his real identity. Dimmesdale, a respectable preacher of the colony, asks her to shit the identity of her lover plainly she keeps it a secret. Hesters husband swears to find out who the fore stimulate of her illegitimate child is. This leads him to raise a new identity for himself as the colonys doctor named Chillingworth. Chillingworth then realizes that Dimmesdale is the father of Hesters child and tortures him on top of the fact that Dimmesdale is already suffering on his let for his sin. Eventually Dimmesdale and Hester begin talk again and they agree to race on a channelise to Europe and begin a new life on that point as a family, unless their ...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.