The Scarlet Letter - Setting?
The two settings I have chosen to describe for my project in just the Puritan community town in general, and the forest (and Hester's Cottage which is technically in the forest). I need five quotes from within the book that describe the settings. Can someone please help me out? Oh, and I need the page numbers too. Thank you sooo much. I have tons of homework and it was a busy weekend so I really need to get my project done. And you wouldn't really be doing my homework for me. I have to explain the quotes and comment on them while using academic vocabulary, plus I have to draw the settings. So, yea. Five quotes describing the setting with page numbers please. Thank you soo much(:
The Scarlet Letter: Setting?
Hi Taylor S The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter, set in the period of seventeenth-century Boston; a time of strong Puritan influence, highlights the pressure cooker-like environment where the society was binded so strongly to religion and moral righteousness. The story revolves around the rise and strength of an independent spirit who fought hard in an unrelenting society in order to defend the ground that she stood on; her principles and certainty of inner-self, Hester Prynne. In a society where much power play was determined by religion and gender, women were on the losing end with so many expectations to live up to (Baym 1986). Thus, when Hester Prynne was caught bearing a love child whose father’s identity was kept a secret to herself, the amount of suffering, discrimination, punishment, isolation and shunning she undergone from the Puritan society was something only a assertive heroine like Hester herself, could withstand. Read more information here: http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Scarlet-Letter/165154
What is the atmosphere of the setting in The Scarlet Letter?
Very repressive.
Is the setting of the Scarlet letter used as an antagonist ?
I think you can easily support that thesis. Hester's very existence is a threat to Puritan Society because of her 'sin', her 'crime'. She divorces herself from it, lives alone with Pearl, but is still a viable symbol of a society's inability to completely control a person. On the one hand, she has something like an idyllic life with her daughter; on the other, she still lives in the shadow of oppressive and fundamentalist hide-bound doctrine, and is ridiculed by gossips. The atmosphere of unforgiving puritanical doctrine stifles even those who adhere to it, and so works against Hester as well.
PLEASE HELP!! Similarities and differences between "Ethan Frome" and "The Scarlet Letter"?
I need similarities and differences in the following for these novels! (Ethan Frome and The Scarlet Letter! Similarities! -Plot -Character -Setting Differences! -Plot -Character -Setting Please, PLEASE help me! If I don't ace this report I might fail the class! Any additional information about this will be HIGHLY appreciated!
How does the setting impact the characters and plot of the scarlet letter?
It's been a while since I've thought about it, so I don't know how eloquently I can say this, but I'll give it a try. The town - "city on a hill", trying to be a utopia, very rigid. Everyone watches everyone else to make sure they're doing what they're supposed to. Nobody can really live up to the standards, so they fake it: meaning no one can be themselves. It is entirely MAN-MADE: the society, dogma, laws, etc. There is a lot of LIGHT here, making it difficult to hide. The forest - natural, wild, and GOD-MADE. People can be themselves - their wild, uncontrolled, natural selves. Passion can occur here. There is a lot of DARKNESS here because of all the shade from the trees, making it possible for people to be themselves without being seen. Dimmesdale and Hester have sex in the forest, but wouldn't have done so in town. Pearl is raised in the forest, which is one reason she is more wild and free than the townspeople. Sorry it's so wordy! Good luck with your homework! =)