THE SCARLET LETTER - trying to get my teacher with something

[exploding toast]

ok I know the scarlet letter is a bad book, but i need to read it for school, and i want to know if somehow you could make an indirect relation to commmunism...etc i just want to piss off my teacher really

(Edited by exploding toast at 2:25 am on April 29, 2003)

[sin miedo]

I didn't mind it. I think you'd be hard pressed to find some link to communism in it.

[exploding toast]

ok thank you

[sin miedo]

I'm not saying don't try. I'm just saying I can't think of anything off the top of my head. Maybe someone else slightly less retarded than myself can help.

If all else fails, just go off on a tangent about how the red in her letter betrays her true intention of bringing socialism to the town.

[Sabocat]

Okay....here goes...work with me on this one....

The story is a metaphor for McCarthyism. The scarlet letter is the public hearings and blacklisting of suspected communists.

I know...it's reaching.

[exploding toast]

thanks yea i was think about that but we just read the crucible and that is a metaphor to McCarthyism, so she would no about that... thanks though

[hazard]

scarlet letter is one of my all time favourite books. no lie.

communist relations are indirect. you have to compare Prynne to the communists of the fifties and sixties, and even of today. shunned and persecuted by society on a basis of their beliefs. the idea of prynne as an adulteress contradicts the communist movements idea of "free love".

if anyhing, the book is vaguely in favour, that is, supportive of communism. at the very least it is in opposition to the status quo of a population blkindly ostracizing and mistreating people in a cruel way on a basis of their beliefs.

hawthornes absolute greatest story is young goodman brown.

[exploding toast]

thanks hazard