The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a historical novel that takes place in Boston, Massachusetts. In the story, the town emphasizes religion over everything else, and its citizens treat the Bible as not only a guide for life but as the rulebook for law. The strict religious beliefs of the characters cause them to shun and condemn a young woman by the name of Hester Prynne for committing adultery. They force Hester to wear a scarlet letter A on her chest as a constant reminder of her wrongdoing, and she soon becomes the model for sin throughout the town. The town's wrongful judgment of her is all based upon religion and the ideas of an evil god. Many today have the idea that religion promotes kindness and acceptance, when in reality it often causes a person to become corrupt and hypocritical. This is first demonstrated in the book by Arthur Dimmesdale, a preacher who is considered holy, despite being a hypocrite and a sinner. The corruption of Religion is seen a second time in the townsfolk of Boston, who condemn Hester for her sins instead of forgiving her for her mistakes. Religion too, causes Governor Bellingham and Reverend Wilson to become corrupt, as they use it to try and take Hesters child away from her. .
Throughout the novel, Arthur Dimmesdale becomes subject to the corruption of religion, and it causes him to live a life of hypocrisy and sin. Dimmesdale is a preacher in the town of Boston that everyone looks up to as a model of how to live life. He delivers passionate sermons about the wrongs of sin to the people of the town and he tells others how to live their lives based off of the Bible and Gods word. He has devoted his entire life to God and the Bible, and he judges others because of their sin and wrongdoing. This is all highly ironic because despite his efforts to preach against sin he himself is a living image of it. Dimmesdale is in fact the father of Hesters child, and because of it, a sinner.
He tried to tell Scarlett his reasons. ... Scarlett's mother died, and her father has gone crazy. ... The war had ended, but Scarlett's struggles have just begun. ... At first, Scarlett and Rhett get along very well. ... Rhett is inconsolable and Scarlett blames Rhett for allowing her to ride. ...
Punishment has always revolved around the same ideas, to discipline an individual, and to set an example for the rest of society, discouraging them from following in a convict's footprints. Either way, the end result is to set a criminal apart from the rest of society. Today we publicize the effe...
Scarlett O"Hara of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is far from an admirable literary heroine. ... Another way in which I identify with Scarlett O"Hara is her tenacity. ... For her whole life, Scarlett believes that all of her actions are motivated by winning man of her dreams. ... Like Scarlett, I realized this quite far into the process. ... But just as Scarlett's life to that point was not lived in vain, it's not too late for me either. ...
Throughout Gone With the Wind Scarlett faces many hardships. ... When Scarlett's beloved plantation home, Tara, is threatened by carpetbaggers, she does not give up. ... If Scarlett did not have any, she would have considered it impossible to save Tara and given up without a fight. ... In Scarlett's case this came in the form of near starvation. ... It can make one stronger, as it did for Margaret Mitchell's lead character Scarlett O"Hara in Gone With the Wind . ...
Scarlett "became a wife within two weeks" of the picnic at Twelve Oaks(130). ... Many of Scarlett's disappointments were due to the change of events. ... The war arrived in Atlanta as Scarlett fled for Tara. ... Scarlett was home at Tara trying to salvage what was left of the plantation. ... Scarlett worked all day long and "every movement was agony"(415). ...
Scarlett teaches the viewer to never give up through her endless fight for survival. ... No matter her age or how many times she remarries, Scarlett remains very childlike at heart. ... Fortunately, Scarlett has a whole other side to her character. ... Scarlett is the most headstrong and determined character as portrayed in these scenes by Vivien Leigh. ... Lastly, Scarlett teaches us to make the best of every situation. ...
Scarlett's lifestyle before the war left her unprepared for the responsibilities to come and even though she was selfish, the tragedies in Scarlett's life shaped her character into the woman she would become after the Civil War. ... In reality the last line is Scarlett's monologue about returning to Tara: "Tara! ... Scarlett is a prime example of a southern belle. ... Scarlett changes during her time working in the hospital in Atlanta, and the fire is symbolic of the end of Scarlett's girlhood. ... The next scene shows Scarlett happy and singing while lying in bed. ...
The film features the life of Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, during the onset of the American Civil War. ... Distraught, Scarlett declares her love to Ashley at a barbeque, Ashley however, states that he does not reciprocate her feelings. The entire exchange is observed by one Rhett Butler played by Clark Gable, who is infatuated with Scarlett O'Hara. ... Scarlett decides that the most important thing from there on out are the survival of her family and her own well-being. ... I believe that the main character, Scarlett O'Hara, was meant to show a woman of the 1930...
