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Topic: Concept of ‘Sin’ in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R. Paper No.: 10/ American Literature Presented Date: 2-10-2014 Year: 2014-2015 Roll No.: 18 M.A./Part:2 Sem.:3
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Topic: Concept of ‘Sin’ in ‘The Scarlet
Letter’
Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R.Paper No.: 10/ American Literature
Presented Date: 2-10-2014Year: 2014-2015
Roll No.: 18M.A./Part:2
Sem.:3
Topic: Concept of ‘Sin’ in ‘The Scarlet Letter’
Historical Background
1650-1570: Early colonial period-puritan writing, no distinctive American literature.
1750-1800: Later colonial period-Age of Reason/Enlightment (Neo-classicism, Rationalism).
1800-1850: American Renaissance/Romanticism-Slave narratives, inner feelings, the burden of a puritan past, the rejection of Neo-classicism.
In ’The Bible’ Sin concerns knowledge
linked in the “JUDEO-CHRISTION”
‘Sin’ in Eden Garden of Eve
In Paradise Lost: By Milton
‘Sin’ of Hester in Society
Quotations “This Woman has brought “Shame” upon us all, and ought to die. Is there not low for it? Truly there is , both in the Scripture and the Statue-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives and daughters go astray!” “Come along, madam Hester, and show your Scarlet letter in the market place!”
“ pray you , good sir, Said he, who is this woman? –and where fore is she here set up to public Shame?”
-Society
-Roger Chilingworth
You must needs be a stranger in this region, friend,” answered the townsman, looking curiously at the questioner and his savage companion: “else you would surely have heard of mistress Hester prynne , and her evil doings. She hath raised a great scandal, I promise you, in godly master Dimmesdale’s church.”
A Man: Society
Punishment of Forest
Comparison: Eve(Paradise Lost) & Hester
Individuality.
Patriarchy/Feminism.
Free Will
Sin results in expulsion a Suffering.
Boldness
No Ideology
Burden of ‘Sin’: Dimmesdale Frustration
Conflict with ‘SUPER-EGO’.
Escapism
Tragedy
Lost patriarchal power
‘Shame’: “ The deepest shame is not shame in the eyes of others but weakness in own yes.” -Helen Merrell Lynd
Hester & Pearl
Pearl illegimate child of Hester & Dimmesdale.
Human spirit of Hester
Immersionism
Self-Relience.
Ideal Ego
Thank You
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Submitted To: S.B. Gardi, Department of English, M.K. Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).
