However, Ida threatens to tell the real story if she does. Ida claims the baby, and is instantly thrust into a maternal role that she fills satisfactorily. Because of this one event, Ida must come back to face the peers of her reservation with a baby in her arms. She struggles with this memory every time she looks at Christine, then she must struggle with what society thinks. She remains a hermit, staying in her house on the outskirts of the reservation only watching Christine and doing her chores. As she says, "If I were to live my life differently, I would start with the word No." (page 297) Ida is expressing the fact that she has never truly been in control of her own life. She struggles with wanting to create her own identity and the identity society has already created for her. Ida explains, "I"m a woman who's lived for fifty-seven years and worn resentment like a medicine charm for forty." (page 297) She must struggle daily with feelings of shame and resentment along with a feeling of not belonging due to one single event that has shaped her being.
Just as Ida, Hester Prynne as well must deal with many daily struggles resulting from one act that has made her into the woman she is. Hester came to the colonies without her husband. Living in a very self-righteous, rigid Puritan community, she made the mistake of having an affair with the esteemed town priest, Arthur Dimmesdale. When the town elders found out that she was pregnant, they demanded to know her partner in sin, though she declined to name him. She was sentenced to wear a scarlet letter "A" that was to be embroidered on all of her garments as a reminder of this event. Just like Ida, her daughter Pearl was threatened to be taken away from her, but she manages to keep her and become a compassionate, maternal figure. She too must struggle with her own code of ethics and her own identity versus what society and law designate for her, thus explaining why she doesn't take off the scarlet letter when the town elders say that she may do so.
Ida B. Wells is one of the most important African American of all times. Her struggles to put a stop to lynching were very significant. Her strategies for combating lynching were to use reverse psychology on the white newspaper reporters and the white community. In doing so, she often quoted the whi...
Hester, with her brilliant scarlet A draped over her, was like a large ruby lying in a pile of charcoal. ... Pearl was quite possibly Hester's greatest work of art. ... Hester's initial sin with Arthur Dimmesdale was her artistic genesis, bearing the beginnings of Hester as a character of pure passion and inspiration. ... Both share a similar point of origin, both are the result of Hester's sin, and both display Hester's extraordinary creative capability. ... Pearl saw that Hester's abandonment of one of her defining pieces of art meant that she was next to go. ...
(Outline) Ida B. Wells: A Crusader for America Introduction- Ida was an active crusader against lynching and a champion of social and political justice for African Americans. She was not a famous crusader for the cause but she did more than many know. I. Background A. Birth date and family ...
Hester Prynne In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the protagonist, Hester Prynne, as a symbol of courage, responsibility, and unconditional love. ... The first trait that Hester Prynne represents is responsibility. ... The next trait that Hester exhibits in this tale is courage. ... Another trait that Hester symbolizes is that of unconditional love. ... Hester's inability to wait for her husband leads her to find fulfillment elsewhere. ...
Ida Lupino's body of work explores a realistic scope of human emotion both in the lives of men and women. ... Feminist critics can easily have ignored Ida Lupino's films because while controversial, they are not conducive to feminist modes of representation. Ida Lupino first came into Hollywood at age fifteen as an actress but did not have much success outside of acting in "B- pictures. ... Ida Lupino does not make a point of scrutinizing his death nor even giving the audience the satisfaction of knowing his ultimate fate because it is not as important as showing the benevolence...
Hester Prynne Hester Prynne, the main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, is a fair young woman who has an affair with her pastor while her husband is away. ... Hester has an intense maternal love for Pearl that is especially particular in their case... Losing almost everything in life, Hester sought happiness only in the presence of her child. ... Hence, Hester is a person with many different characteristics to be admired for. ... Because she cannot undo the past, Hester seeks to refine the future. ...
Fellow African-Americans and Friends We are gathered here on this earth as one. A crucial element in today's society is in the struggle of African-Americans for equal treatment under the law. In fact, a well-known fighter for the rights of all human beings is Ms. Ida B. Wells-Barnet...
During this time, Hester refuses publicly name Pearl's father. ... Throughout the novel Hester's strength is put to the test. ... answered Hester Prynne, laying her finger on the red token. ... Many people believe that Hester is a flawed heroine. ... Hawthorne does not really go inside of Hester's mind so we never really know what Hester felt internally. ...
Character Analysis: Hester Prynne The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was an objective description of the life of Hester Prynne, who is an adulteress. ... Throughout the novel Hester's strength is put to the test. ... answered Hester Prynne, laying her finger on the red token. ... Many people believe that Hester is a flawed heroine. ... Hawthorne does not really go inside of Hester's mind so we never really know what Hester felt internally. ...
