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Book Synopsis The portrayal of women in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" by : Michelle Blum
Download or read book The portrayal of women in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" written by Michelle Blum and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 12, University of Sheffield, language: English, abstract: This essay discusses how Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" engages with the role of women in the nineteenth century based on the example of the protagonist, Hester Prynne. A number of critical voices on the topic are analysed, and it will be discussed if, and how, the text portrays women differently than they were wanted to behave when the novel was published in 1850.
Book Synopsis The Scarlet Letter by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women's Issues in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter by : Claudia Durst Johnson
Download or read book Women's Issues in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great literary works resonate with readers not only because of well-developed characters and plots, but also because they often reflect important social themes. The Social Issues in Literature series brings together the disciplines of sociology and literature in a unique format designed to support cross-curricular studies. Each volume explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully-selected content representing a variety of perspectives. All volumes in the series contain biographical and critical information about the author; secondary excerpts offering both historical and contemporary views of the highlighted social issue; a timeline of the author's life; a "For Further Reading" section of other works on the issue; and a detailed subject index. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Hawthorne's Short Stories by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book Hawthorne's Short Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as "Young Goodman Brown," in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; “Rappaccini's Daughter," about a lovely young girl who has been raised in isolation among dangerous poisons; and "The Birthmark," in which a scientist obsessed with perfection destroys the flaw that makes his otherwise flawless wife both beautiful and human.
Book Synopsis Historically motivated gender ambiguity in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" by : Bettina Siebert
Download or read book Historically motivated gender ambiguity in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" written by Bettina Siebert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Rostock (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), course: Early American Literature, US History and Its Aftermath, language: English, abstract: Breaking with the tradition of examining "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne for traces of (proto-)feminism, the paper approaches the idea of gender in analyzing the interplay of the time periods underlying the literary work - the 19th century as the time of writing and Puritan times as the setting of the plot. In the 200 years between the two moments, ideas of gender have changed with commencing ideas of female empowerment in Hawthorne's time. Looking at the shifting understanding of gender, the construction of femininity and masculinity is analyzed with a focus on the two protagonists - Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Overall, the gender relations between the two main characters change into opposite directions. Thus, Hawthorne's writing destabilizes conventional Puritan ideas of pre-ascribed spheres and gender roles. It has become an academic tradition over the past decades to scrutinize historical literary pieces for traces of feminism. Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" has been a prime object of interest for several scholars in this pursuit. The story of Hester Prynne who is outlawed by Puritan society after having committed adultery represents an early work to have a protagonist who breaks with the law of her time. This might be the reason why in an earlier tradition the novel has been read with Arthur Dimmesdale, the young reverend and Hester's lover, as the central figure. Approaches involving feminism and gender studies challenged this reading. Their focus however primarilyseems to be the tracing of feminist attitudes in Hawthorne's writing. In this approach the historical perspective of the literary work is often read from a contemporary angle creating a hybrid reading that involves three time frames, namely the Puritan time of theplot, the 19th century setting of the novel's writing and the contemporary moment of thenovel's reading.
Book Synopsis (Shifting) Gender Roles in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter by : Djenisa Osmani
Download or read book (Shifting) Gender Roles in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter written by Djenisa Osmani and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: In the following, I will first present the individual gender roles of the Puritans and those of the 19th century, demonstrating how they have changed, followed by an account of the feminine gender roles of Hester and her daughter Pearl. Finally, I will briefly present the extent to how the gender roles in the novel are shifted. The topic of gender roles is an area in society that has been a point of debate for several centuries. Even today, in many parts of the world, gender equality is discussed and fought for. Genders are assigned fixed characteristics and behaviors that are supposed to be followed to conform to society. If someone does not behave according to their gender role, it can very often lead to conflicts within society, even today. Gender roles are changing, but this is not a new phenomenon. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the novel The Scarlet Letter, which takes place about 200 years before his time. The novel is about a woman who has committed adultery and who has given birth to a child out of marriage. As punishment, she must wear the scarlet letter A at chest height for the rest of her life, a symbol of shame. This circumstance does not sound appropriate to our times, and even in the 19th century, when Hawthorne wrote the novel, some gender roles of the 17th century were no longer appropriate. The protagonist, Hester Prynne, does not conform to the conventions of her time and emancipates herself from the Puritan gender roles and even ends up not being condemned for it. Furthermore, she and the child’s father - the priest Arthur Dimmesdale - both demonstrate an exchange of gender roles in their ways of acting and characteristics.
Book Synopsis Discourse on Woman by : Lucretia Mott
Download or read book Discourse on Woman written by Lucretia Mott and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lecture by Mott, delivered 17 December 1849, was in response to one by an unidentified lecturer criticizing the demand for equal rights for women. She makes a very gentle appeal, here, for women's enfranchisement, placing emphasis, instead on the injustices done to women in marriage.
Download or read book Fanshawe written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawthorne's first published novel, Fanshawe combines romantic themes with an engaging look at college life in the early nineteenth century. Critics have noted that the novel has strong autobiographical components and is likely a thinly fictionalized account of the writer's own experiences as a student at Bowdoin College.
Book Synopsis Looking for Lorraine by : Imani Perry
Download or read book Looking for Lorraine written by Imani Perry and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now. In 2018, Hansberry will get the recognition she deserves with the PBS American Masters documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” and Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine. After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder stances on Civil Rights, supporting African anti-colonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Village hipsters. Though she married a man, she identified as lesbian and, risking censure and the prospect of being outed, joined one of the nation’s first lesbian organizations. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians, including Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. Looking for Lorraine is a powerful insight into Hansberry’s extraordinary life—a life that was tragically cut far too short. A Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction A 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize Finalist
Download or read book When She Woke written by Hillary Jordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family, but after her arrest, she awakens to a nightmare: she is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home, for whom observing new Chromes-criminals whose skin color has been genetically altered to match the class of their crime-is a new and sinister form of entertainment. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder. The victim, according to the State of Texas, was her unborn child, and Hannah is determined to protect the identity of the father, a public figure with whom she's shared a fierce and forbidden love. When She Woke is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future-where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed and released back into the population to survive as best they can. In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.
Book Synopsis I Can Love Both Fair and Brown by : Helen H. Gunn
Download or read book I Can Love Both Fair and Brown written by Helen H. Gunn and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major change occurred in the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne when he wrote his first noveL The Scarlet Letter. This work included several frrsts for Hawthorne: the advent of a completely new female character type-a dark lady-represented by Hester Prynne, and Hawthorne's placement of this character' front and center-his frrst female protagonist. One wonders what motivated Hawthorne to create this new female type. A primary source of information regarding Hawthorne's attitudes toward women before this change is the plethora of letters he wrote to his wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. Within these letters, Hawthorne constructed idealized versions of Sophia to serve his own personal needs. A series of personal crises, however, changed Hawthorne's ability to retain his belief in the ability of those fictional characters to meet his needs. As a result, Hawthorne began to experiment with the dark lady character. This character is independent, strong, creative and most importantly, unconventional. By opening up to new possibilities, by being willing to inhabit a space of uncertainty and thereby imagine a new kind of woman, Hawthorne was able to achieve a level of artistic success he had never achieved before. Keywords: Nathaniel Hawthorne, feminism, dark lady, fair lady, essentialism, letters, novels.
Book Synopsis Presentation of Women in Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter and Kate Chopin's the Awakening by : Elena Scarfagna Rossi
Download or read book Presentation of Women in Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter and Kate Chopin's the Awakening written by Elena Scarfagna Rossi and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In half a century interceding between the publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne`s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Kate Chopin`s The Awakening (1899), North American society's attitude towards women changed but American women's attitude towards society substantially did not. Freedom achieved through civil rights does neither compare nor reflect women's condition in social life. In the United State, more than in other countries, freedom is often associated with women. This is especially true for a country defined as the melting pot of profoundly different cultures, where anybody's dream of freedom seems to come true. Therefore women's struggle for their rights within society seemed heavier and longer than anywhere else.
Book Synopsis The Scarlet Letter by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story The Scarlet Letter revolves around a woman named Hester who has committed adultery. Consequently, she is subjected to punishment according to Bible rules which were strictly followed then. Hester is condemned for life and is forced to wear a scarlet symbol as a punishment for her sin....
Book Synopsis The Scarlet Letter by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Book Analysis) by : Bright Summaries
Download or read book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Book Analysis) written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Scarlet Letter with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The “scarlet letter” of the title is the letter “A”, which the protagonist Hester Prynne must wear as punishment for having committed adultery. However, Hester’s virtuous behaviour throughout the narrative makes clear, the line between guilt and innocence is not clear-cut, and she proves an easy character to sympathise with. Through her story, Hawthorne examines the stifling role of Puritanism in her society and the double standards applied to men and women in matters of morality. The Scarlet Letter was chosen by The Guardian as one of the 100 greatest novels ever written in English, and it is widely considered to be a classic of American literature. Find out everything you need to know about The Scarlet Letter in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book Works written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scarlet Letter by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist and short story writer of the Romantic movement. A Dark Romantic, his works often focus on the inherent evil of humanity and usually include moral messages. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1642 and 1649, “The Scarlet Letter” is the tale of Hester Prynne and his endeavours to forge a new life of dignity after conceiving a daughter out of wedlock. Highly recommended for fans of Romantic literature and collectors of Hawthorne's seminal work. Contents include: “The Prison Door”, “The Market-Place”, “The Recognition”, “The Interview”, “Hester at her Needle”, “Pearl”, “The Governor's Hall”, “The Elf-Child and the Minister”, “The Leech”, “The Leech and his Patient”, “The Interior of a Heart”, “The Minister's Vigil”, etc. Read & Co. Classics is republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory chapter by George Edward Woodberry.
