if you could recommend the scarlet letter..?

Question

to a friend, what would be some reasons on how you justify your answer??

I READ THE BOOK! WHY DO PEOPLE ASSUME I DIDNT! I READ IT, UNDERSTOOD IT, AND WAS CASTING THIS AS A SORT OF SURVEY TO SEE IF MY ANSWER FULLY JUSTIFIED THE WORK OF HAWTHORNE. THANKS FOR ASSUMING! the next person to answer this, please be nice =] lol.

Answer 1

I would tell your friend, that this is a book for all women to read. It really shows the injustice and cruelty to women in the name of religion in an era when women were condemned for just about anything. And this happened in America and not in some far-eastern country. It is a book that shows the cruelty of men when they believe they are practicing Christianity in their own terms and laws, but are not necessarily, practicing Christianity based on God's laws of love and forgiveness. Their religion is a religion based on Self-Righteousness, Hate and pre-Judgment.
As a woman, as a Human-being we should always be aware what can happen if religious fanatics took over and became the moral police of the nation. I think this book is a story but a story that really makes you think, that if this could have happened in this country even 200 or 100 years ago, It could happen again today if people are not aware and not informed..
This is what I would tell your friend. I would tell her also that the storry is about this one woman that was subjected to so much cruelty through the hands of these Puritan People and their Religion. I would tell her also that the story is not a documentary and that we have no proof that this is a true story, but that I believed the writer must have done a great amount of research to write such a well and informative book.

Answer 2

I'm not going to remember the exact spot in the book here, but it is the only example in all of British or American literature that I can remember where every single character appears in this one spot which I consider the climax of the book. I believe one of the characters is in the center of the square....I don't think there are gallows, but it is where one of the main characters is being condemned and every character and most, if not all, of the minor characters are there or make a brief appearance (passers-by). It really is quite a remarkable passage. The book can be rather dry, but when read in the historical context of American literature and then this particular literary aspect, it is worth it. Thinking about it in terms of the American Romantic ideal and its trying to break free from the Puritan roots of the United States and find its own voice or "way" as it were.....

Answer 3

I'd recommend this more it terms of a historical account of the way women were treated in Puritan New England not in terms of English or good reading.

Mainly to give people a clearer idea about what is happening in the middle east and so they can better visualize the way women are being treated in the middle east and in Muslim countries.

Answer 4

all of that are powerful reports however in the event you wish a publication that may not quit you from the publication down and to make your existence simpler in terms of copying the creator's writing variety, i might pass with the Kite Runner and/or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Preferably i might pass with the Kite Runner in view that it is my favourite and the sort of lovely tale, rather emotional however one of the crucial satisfactory matters ever written :)

Answer 5

I would never recommend this book to a friend, but if I did, I could recommend it only for its impeccable examples of sexism against women, the regulating by men (religion) of women's sexual expression, the expectation that women are never supposed to enjoy sex, and the general overall fear of sex that has persisted through most Western religions for hundreds of years.

So that would be a feminist reading of why this book sucks.

Answer 6

it portrays the affects of ostracism as well as giving historical information on religion and social practices during that time.

Answer 7

have them see the movie w/ demi moore. makes the book even more exciting.

Answer 8

well, i'd tell my friend that i actually read the book, unlike you.