Tuesday, August 18, 2015
The Scarlet Letter
Recently we have read "The Scarlet Letter". In this novel we have been introduced to a prison full of sorrow and loss of the marrow of life. As we read on we notice a reference towards red roses near a grayish prison door. Red will later on have a symbolic and important meaning as we read on. A young woman which we know a portion about has committed adultery and is in threatened with the gallows( where people are hung). This woman has her baby in hand and is being watched by a throng of people. Furthermore, throughout these two chapter we see a form of nature having pity towards mankind as well as a unknown symbolizine towards the color red.
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What do you think the red will symbolize?
ReplyDeleteBlood, or something cool like that
DeleteI think it'll symbolize passion. She adulterated in a Puritan village which is a pretty big risk considering the consequences. She must have had feelings for the man she had sex with. If not, why would she risk possible death?
DeleteIt might have been a one night stand kind of thing. Maybe they both had too much to drink one thing led to another, and she's pregnant.
DeleteI believe the color red will symbolize something such as hope or something like that
ReplyDeleteYeah, thanks for the feedback.
ReplyDeleteI think it symbolizes revenge. It seems like there is more to the story than her committing adultery and she was wronged somehow. So the red roses with iron thorns could symbolize her getting revenge for the wrong that has been done to her.
ReplyDeleteI mean it might symbolize her husbands revenge on the person she cheated with. But wouldn't her committing the adultery be her revenge? Like a way to get back at her husband for wronging her? I don't know who she can really get revenge on at this point.
DeleteI don't think she cheated on her husband to get revenge, I believe she truly loved the guy she had the baby with. I think she'll get revenge on the town because she's not aloud to be with the one she loves or one specific person, I'm not sure who that would be though. Or it could be multiple of people angry at one another and they plot to get revenge on those they hate.
DeleteBut why would she want revenge on the town? Their reaction was expected and if anyhting lenient. She knows what she did was considered wrong at the time. So it makes no sense to be angry at people for reacting exactly the way you know they would.
DeleteThat's true. So what could the red symbolize?
Deleteblood, vengance, poetic justice etc.
DeleteWell, her husband is a scholar and not many of us know who he really was. Could her flashbacks really be day-dreams rather than life portraying events.
ReplyDeletewhat flashbacks/ daydreams? Are you talking about when the book described her husband and the native american? Because her husband had a discussion with one of the townspeople.
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