Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, “The Scarlett Letter”, a very grave question pops up into the conscience of the readers: “What character in the story has committed the most sinful acts?”. One reader can propose that Hester Prynne was sinful for not only she committed adultery behind her husband’s back, but to yet entice a Christian Clergy. A few would argue that Roger Chillingworth would be hold responsible for planning to act on cold revenge against the adulterer. Despite that all two characters
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a monstrous beast part man part bull, which fed on human flesh and lived in a labyrinth in Crete. In Ted Hughes’ poem, the Minotaur is a symbolism of Sylvia Plath’s father Otto and a metaphoric representation of Otto’s rage, ferocity and terrorism of his daughter. Whilst the labyrinth is metaphorically speaking the complexity and madness that is Sylvia’s mind. Hughes begins his poem with lurid violence, anger and frustration. “The mahogany table-top you smashed”
Everything begins in a seventeenth century settlement which back then was a puritan society. A young woman, whose name is Hester Prynne, is taken from the parish prison with her little baby, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” perfectly visible in her breast. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows us immediately what is happening by exposing the people’s comments. A man explained to another that the woman had been punished for adultery. Hester’s arrived a long time ago there. She had been sent by her