Difficulty paper 2

I am trying to understand if Hawthorne is a feminist or not. Now I know that this a big topic that could be written in a research paper. And how Peal is looked at as a demonic imp. But it sorta irates me because he is speaking about how hester and pearl kind of do their own thing. They do not follow the same rules that the rest of the puritan society follows. I mean most of the town thinks that peral is almost demonic, but it seems like they kind of just flush it off their shoulders because hester is all ready being almost shamed to death and I bet that the town sees hester as a bad parent any ways so they dont take notice to it.

"Come away mother , Come away or yonder old black man will catch you! he hath got ahold of minster already."(90)
" She now skipped irreverently from one grave to another; until coming to the broad, flat, armorial tomb stone of  a departed worthy-perhaps of Issac  Johnson himself,- she began to dance upon it." (89).

Chillingworth and Dimmsdale then after talk about how they cannot belive that Pearl could act this way, as if she were a devil child or imp or some other force. Im in shock that no one sees this and start the Salem witch trials off this! I mean if the whole town is soo bent on becoming a good saint in the puritans eyes and to never do wrong and vanquish the devil from where it ever it comes from, why wouldn't Peal be prime suspect number one. Possibly its because she is a child or for some other reason. How ever she is having an effect on the town in a very quaint way but soon years centenary later. That was womans rights movement. This is evidence that not every one back then in this time were okay with the social rights given to every one. I mean Roger and Dimmsdale say in a scene right around where i quoted that Pearl was not like the other children as if she were made of different elements. I believe that he is referencing that she has a sort of free spirit and is not going to let the laws of social critisims and reputation break down her spirit of who she is because she has the ability to know what is right with out realizing it simply because she was born with human instincts just like ourselves.

So how is Hawthorne writing about all of this compelling out of bounds stuff if it hasent quite happed yet? Well sure there were always people fighting for womens rights. But it was rare to find a male doing it as well with out having his writings be completely overlooked because of it. So i wish i guess to know was he criticized back then for and because of it? Would be great to know! thanks!

Difficulty paper

Let me start off by saying that I do not read much in my free time, heck only when I absolutely have to. But when I take English classes I usually know that I will be reading a book so I get a little excited! And the flowers was phenominal! And when I started the Scarlett letter I got weary and felt like I had put my mind through a washing machine full of words from the 16 th centuary dirty clothes! It is hard to read. The way how hawthorn describes specific objects making the read believe that it will be of some importance later on in the book, but usually is not. I really wish that some one could re write the Scarlett letter in modern English and translate word for word would make the book overall better, for the reason that it would be easier to comprehend. Any ways I did how ever manage to get into it better by relating similar things that happend in the book to my life, those are personal to me however. I did as well try to put my feet in the shoes of a towns person there just watching what happens. Or some times thinking it of a bad movie that I paid for and must sit and watch and understand no matter how boring. The book did have some fire starters though which make it a suprise at times making it better. I know it will get better as well just have to navigate through the mucky 10 pt times new roman black font waters to understand the good stuff.