Scarlet Letter 8

The scarlet letter it’s the element which all the story round around. It is the symbol of the sin of Hester Prynne, a sort of mark indelible she will have forever to show to everyone the mistake that spots her soul. It’s the letter “A”, just the first letter of her sin: Adultery. Wearing it, day by day, Hester is the example on the earth of her mistake and a sort of warning for all who would think to do the same, before their thoughts become reality. The color scarlet isn’t casual. It represents the tormented the love, the passion she felt that only time she made her sin. Because once was sufficient to make her a sinner, in front of the people but, more, in front of God. The position of the letter on the heart of the woman represents materially an obstacle for her soul to reach the purity again. She lost it forever!

Scarlet Letter 7

The behave of Hester husband, during the meeting with the wife in the prison, is particularly interesting to be analyzed. In a first moment he looks very rigor, likes all the doctor are. He doesn’t talk a lot and limit his actions to cure the baby and the wife: he seems stranger to that situation. After the examination he takes a chair and seats next to Hester, all in a very quiet way. At this time he starts talking about the actual situation: himself, the wife, their marriage, the betrayal, the children… It’s interesting, here, how the author makes the character explain himself. There is a sort of contrast between how Hester husband behaves and how he feels. His action seems very calm, too much for a man who has been betrayed. Indeed he is very upset, he is angry and he wants to know the truth about the father of the baby. We can understand that in his speech and especially in Hester reaction, when she says “Thy acts are like mercy, but thy words interpret thee as a terror!”

Government, Religion and Culture

Government, Religion and Culture

1.     For a good earn is important that export products, those you sell abroad, are more than imported products, those you buy from foreign markets.

Charter colonies were those colonies made by settlers who had been given a grant of right and privileges, and which had their own governors and member of the legislature.

Proprietary colonies were those colonies ruled by proprietors, that could be individuals or groups that had received land by Britain. The proprietors were free to rule as they want.

Sons of farmers were sometimes apprentices; they learned by craft workers how to trade.

An high level of literacy, the ability to read and write, is very important for a good conduction of a Country.

2.     Women cared about their children with their husbands, cooked, made butter and cheese, preserved food, spun yarn, made clothes and tended chicken and cows. Sometimes they could work in the field next to theirs husbands or attend church meeting. Windows and unmarried woman could work as teachers, nurses, and seamstresses too. But any of them couldn’t vote.

3.     The Navigation Acts angered the colonists because established that they could trade only with England and that fact would have limited a lot their businesses.

4.     Andrew Hamilton defend John Peter Zenger and free speech because it’s important to know and say the truth, and hiding it, only because it’s offensive for someone, is like lying.

5.     FACT: Great Awakening

CAUSE: the will to return to the strong faith of the early days.

CONSECUENCES: formation of many new churches.

6.     Stephen Daye established the first printing press in the new colonies in 1639. Before that they probably communicate by handwriting works or by voice which shouldn’t be very comfortable and safe ways to communicate.

Life in the Colonies

Life in the Colonies

1.     In New England families used to do subsistence farming; they produced just enough to satisfy their own needs, with a little left over to sell or exchange.

The triangular trade was a trade by sea whose route formed a triangle; sugar and molasses were brought from West Indies to New England, rum and other goods were shipped from New England to West Africa and there traded for enslaved Africans who were brought in West Indies.

In Middle Colonies farmers grew large quantity of cash crops, crops that could be sold easily in colonies and oversea.

2.     In Middle Colonies they cultivated large areas of land, producing big harvests which were also sold overseas and whose trade made colonies there very busy ports. They have home-based crafts too, such as carpentry and flour making, and larger businesses, such as lumbering, mining and small-scale manufacturing.

3.     New England colonists used natural resources to help their economy. They used waterpower from streams to run mils for grinding grain or sawing lumber, for shipbuilding they used woods form the forest that was transported down by rivers, and they had a good sea to fish in.

4.	Similarities	Differences
New England	Cultured of crops, use of slaves to labor fields	Long winter, thin and rocky soil, subsistence farming_________
Southern Colonies		Warm climate, rich soil, production of big harvests to be traded

5.     Plantation owners justified their uses of enslaved Africans saying they needed to use those slaves to work fields because without them they couldn’t produced a sufficient quantity of products and the economy of the colony, they belonged to, would have fallen.

6.     Rice, tobacco indigo and furs were traded from British Colonies to Great Britain and goods and molasses were brought from West Indies to British Colonies.

Scarlet Letter 6

In chapter three for the first time men of Church take part in the story. They are the Reverend Mr. Wilson and the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. They try to cajole Hester to say the name of the father of the baby, but she doesn’t do it. Important to be noticed is that in the Place Church men and Politicians seat together. That’s because in Puritans organization Politic and religion were very close, often laws were based on religious moral and priest operated like judges.

Scarlet Letter 5

The suspense is a technique used often in the book and in chapter three we have another example of it. In this episode of the story while Hester is standing on the scaffold a men into the group of people under her attracts her attention. She recognizes him but doesn’t say his Identity. Considering her feeling after she saw him, the readers can understand that he is the last person she would see, but nothing more. The story leaves this issue in the uncertain, to increase the curious of the readers. Probably he is her husband, who she didn’t see since lots of year, but it’s impossible to be certain, you can only continue to read to discover that.

Scarlet Letter 4

Particularly important in chapter two are the behaves of Hester Prynne while she is moving from the prison to the Market-Place. She shows all her dignity. Despite she has burning blush, she smiles and shows a glance that would not be abashed. That’s to hide people her real feelings. In the reality she suffers a lot and would like to escape, but she can’t let people know that so she groups all the force she has and go on.