scholarly journals THE SOUND OF EVIL: A PERSPECTIVE OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Paramasastra ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lusia Kristiasih Dwi Purnomosasi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Scarlet Letter ◽  
The Scarlet Letter ◽  
Anna Karenina ◽  
Lady Chatterley's Lover ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Different Cultures

The representation of evil in The Scarlet Letter, Madam Bovary, Anna Karenina, and Lady Chatterley’s  Lover  is  a  choice  to  be  compared  by  the  theory  of  comparative literature of Claudio Guillen.It  is  called  thematology.  It  is  based on  the assumption that a theme will be different as  it is accepted by different cultures. Internationality is applied among others. The evil functions as a representation of a sinner in The Scarlet Letter in line with external marital affairs by the main character. It is due to the belief of  witch  that  leads  to  the  special  woman.  The  witch  as  the  representation  of  evil changes  to  the  beggar  in  Madam  Bovary  and  a  railway  station  officer  in  Anna Karenina. Both  reflect  the different  social  stratification as  the effect of materialism. Lady Chatterley’s Lover  has  transformed  to an  invisible  representation of evil.  It  is the mentality of capitalism. The  transformation of  those evil  in  the novels  is created from the stereotype towards the cursed by society. It deals with the belief and status.

scholarly journals Puritanism and Its Controversies in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tifanny Peleng ◽  
Tini Mogea ◽  
Mister Gidion Maru
Keyword(s):  
Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Scarlet Letter ◽  
The Scarlet Letter ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Hester Prynne ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Puritanism is one of the phenomena contained within the literary work. Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne the main character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne represents the puritanism condition. This research is focused on Puritanism. The research is aimed at finding out the Puritanism in The Scarlet Letter. The source of data of the research is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne entitled The Scarlet Letter. The main data were taken from the source of data that implied Puritanism. The main data were analyzed based on the supporting data which were taken from books, articles, essays, critics, and other related writings. The research was a descriptive qualitative library research. The researcher will use the genetic structuralism approach to find out the Puritanism.Keywords    :   Puritanism, Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints, Public Humiliation, Public Judged, Public Pressure.

scholarly journals Puritan Projections In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter" And Stephen King’s "Carrie"

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Maria Anastasova
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
American Culture ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
Scarlet Letter ◽  
The Scarlet Letter ◽  
American Novels ◽  
The Witch

It is considered that the Puritans that populated New England in the 17th century left a distinctive mark on the American culture. The article explores some projections of Puritan legacy in two American novels of different periods – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Stephen King’s Carrie (1974). After establishing a connection between the Puritan writings and gothic literature, the two novels are analyzed in terms of some Puritan projections, among which are the problem of guilt and the acceptance of an individual in the society. Some references regarding the idea of the witch and the interpretations it bears, especially in terms of the female identity, are also identified. Despite the different approach of the authors in terms of building their characters, those references are mostly used in a negative way, as an instrument of criticism and exposing inconvenient truths.

Pearl: 1850–1955

PMLA ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 72 (4-Part-1) ◽  
pp. 689-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Garlitz
Keyword(s):  
Moral Order ◽  
Scarlet Letter ◽  
The Scarlet Letter ◽  
The Past ◽  
Natural Goodness ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Moral Indifference ◽  
The One ◽  
Good And Evil

Pearl would seem to be the most enigmatic child in literature. Soon after The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850 Pearl was called both “an imbodied angel from the skies” and “a void little demon,” and time produced no unanimity of opinion. In the past hundred years she has been variously described as “most artificial and unchildlike,” and as possessing “the natural bloom… of childhood,” as a creature “of moral indifference, as one not born into the moral order,” and as an illustration of “that law which visits the sins of the fathers upon the children.” For some critics she performs the function of “a symbolized conscience,” but for others she is simply “a darksome fairy” or “the one touch of color in a sombre picture.” To one writer she typifies “a disordered nature torn by a malignant conflict between the forces of good and evil,” but to another she is an example of Rousseauian natural goodness. In the past five years Pearl has been found a symbol both of “unnatural isolation” from society and of the organicism of nature as opposed to the mechanism of society, a symbol both of the id and of “man's hopeful future.” Several critics have called Pearl a child of nature, but to one she is a symbol of wild uncivilized nature outside the realm of grace, to another an example of prelapsarian innocence, and to a third “an object of natural beauty, a flower,” and like nature, amoral, “not good or bad, because… not responsible.” Criticism of Pearl almost forces one to conclude that her character is an unfathomable maze, or of such an involved richness that it can become all things to all men.

scholarly journals The Unavoidable Suffering in Selected Literary Texts: Poems and Novels

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Nasser Frag
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Allen Ginsberg ◽  
Scarlet Letter ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
The Scarlet Letter ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Main Reflection ◽  
To Come ◽  
Almost All

The unavoidable suffering is an outstanding theme which has its impact to almost all literary texts. Typically, unavoidable suffering is the supreme touchstone in life and literature. Poets used its presence incessantly. They are always conscious of its inevitability. Investigation of this theme gives the reader a panoramic view of vital issues that are unusually linked to some extent with suffering; such as religion, God, nature, love and immortality. In the poems discussed in this study, unavoidable suffering reflects the effect of modern psychology has had upon both literature and literary criticism. The main reflection of suffering which is implied in the characters presented reveal the very contradictions, absurdities and complexities of our life. The poets and novelists chosen in this paper portray suffering, as “an abstract force, in an attempt to come to terms with it as well as to fathom it.” (Gurra, 2019, p.5) In the inexorable quest to comprehend it, poets do not offer a final view of suffering because it remains for them the great unknown mystery. This paper, however, is an attempt to meticulously examine and critically analyze the images of suffering in minor characters presented in selected poems. The selected poems are of Robinson Jeffers, Allen Ginsberg, and Maya Angelou. The characters selected from different novels are minor ones. Characters like: Roger Chiilingworth from The Scarlet Letter (1850), Walter Morel from Sons and Lovers (1913), Zeena Frome from Ethan Frome (1911), and Rezia Warren Smith from Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Different kinds of suffering are disscussed in order to gain a better understanding of the writers’ perception of unavoidable suffering as well as to understand the western philosophy of it.

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