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Post by Savannah Bedillion on Aug 12, 2014 18:54:08 GMT
During the beginning of the Scarlet Letter, Hester’s American dream is to be treated equally among all of the townspeople. She wishes that they see who she really is, a caring and strong woman. Once she commits adultery and is put into jail all of her hopes to be treated equally goes away. She realizes that everybody will not see her for who she is but what she has done. She thinks the Scarlet Letter around her neck will keep her from accomplishing her American dream. Once Hester realizes that she cannot be ashamed of herself forever, her American dream changes. Hester’s new American dream is for her and her daughter Pearl to be happy. The Scarlet Letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. “For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticizing all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
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Post by Lucas Chouinard on Aug 12, 2014 19:59:45 GMT
At the beginning of the novel, Hester Prynne had an American Dream that she was just like everybody else inside of her town. During the novel Hester gets has to put a letter “A” on her chest which makes everyone's opinions about her change. The town looks at Hester as a failure to the town and a sinner that nobody wants to be around. Everybody in the town knew exactly what Hester did and she was considered a sinner to the town. Throughout the novel Hester’s American Dream changes and she just wants to be free from everything and she just wants to feel free again instead of everybody always judging her. The town would look at Hester in a different way then how they would look at other people just because she committed adultery on her husband. Hester just wants to be free from everything and doesn’t want anyone to treat her any way different then how everybody else is being treated.
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Post by Jacob Sheridan on Aug 13, 2014 2:54:32 GMT
At the start of the novel Hester's American Dream is to be equal and seen as equal to all other people despite her sinful past. However towards the end of the story Hester wishes to be free and happy with her family. She no longer wants to be with everyone who considers her an outcast all she wants is her family. She is accustomed to a society and religion where everyone thinks everything is decided by God and none of them control anything. She resents this and wishes to move away and control her own life.
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Post by Jacob Sheridan on Aug 13, 2014 3:00:33 GMT
At the start of the novel Hester's American Dream is to be equal and seen as equal to all other people despite her sinful past. However towards the end of the story Hester wishes to be free and happy with her family. She no longer wants to be with everyone who considers her an outcast all she wants is her family. She is accustomed to a society and religion where everyone thinks everything is decided by God and none of them control anything. She resents this and wishes to move away and control her own life.
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Post by jaredg on Aug 13, 2014 13:29:32 GMT
At the beginning of the novel, Hester is taken back by all the recent events she was a part of and recounts the privileges she lost. One of the greatest of theses was “giving up her individuality” and depicting the puritans “images of women frailty and sinful passion”(pg.73). She dreamed to fit in with everyone else and be seen beyond the letter that imprisoned her. In time, she accepts that the letter is a part of her and starts focusing on more important matters. She yearned for Pearl to have a better life away from the Puritan society.
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Post by Branden Suthard on Aug 13, 2014 15:34:03 GMT
Hester's "American Dream" is being an individual and being herself. Hester doesn't want to be viewed as a sinner, she wants to be a woman of Might and strength. Hester adapts and becomes used to the Scarlet Letter and uses it as strength. She becomes stronger and more independent and she gets more courageous.
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Post by Jillian Heuman on Aug 13, 2014 19:24:00 GMT
Hester's dream at the beginning of the novel is to be viewed as an equal by her peers instead of being frowned upon. Society treated her as an outcast and she just wanted to be accepted as a normal person and not viewed as the sins she committed. As The novel continues many things change in Hester's life including her and her outlook on life. At The end of the novel Hester wants a nice life for her and her family. She views herself as a sign of knowledge and redemption, and not of sin. She no longer cares to be accepted by society because she accepts herself. "The scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the worlds scorn and bitterness, and became the type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, and yet reverence, too."
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Post by hunterp99 on Aug 14, 2014 0:12:49 GMT
At first Hester's "American Dream" is to be accepted into society and not be looked at as a disgrace and pariah, because she was just persecuted as a sinner and adulterer. Because of her "evil doings" she was considered a "hussy" and she had "wished" for death in order to escape her shame. She couldn't believe that she was being persecuted and while she "fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely," she had trouble believing that "these were her realities." But as the story moves forward Hester accepts her fate and decides to "be kind to the poor, helpful to the sick, so comforting to the afflicted," she gets used to being a social outcast. Because of all of her hardships "all the light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered up" and "the attractiveness of her person" had also become nonexistent. She had a "marble coldness" to her and had lost hope "of retrieving her position", she had also abandoned "the world's law" and "assumed a freedom of speculation". At the end of the novel her "American Dream" was to be free from her life and at peace, she wanted to runaway and start a new life without her past, "there is happiness to be enjoyed! There is good to be done! Exchange this false life of thine for a true one." In the end Hester had "wandered, without rule or guidance" and "shame, despair, solitude! These had been her teachers-stern and wild ones-and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss," and the one time in the end Hester had removed her scarlet letter her "youth and the richness of her beauty, came back" and her joy along with her "maiden hope" also came back. She felt "exquisite relief" and "freedom" that had been stolen from her by her "burden of shame and anguish" that was the scarlet letter.
By: Hunter Pease
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Post by Chelsea Catarelli on Aug 14, 2014 0:35:53 GMT
In the beginning of the novel, Hester's "American Dream" was to be an individual. She didn't want people looking at her as dirt and to speak to her with rude comments. At the end of "The Scarlet Letter", Hester only wants to redeem herself as a normal person after seven years of regret and misery. She doesn't care anymore about being equal to everyone else, all she wants is to move on and enjoy her life with her family.
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Post by Dillonwrigley on Aug 14, 2014 3:22:29 GMT
In the beginning of the story after Hester is accused of adultery, her American Dream is equality and to be treated normally. The A on her chest represents her sins and is welcoming to rude remarks from the community, and as a result Hester isn't equal to the rest of the community. As the story progresses, her American Dream changes from equality to freedom. Living in the puritan society, she was expected to only follow god, but towards the end of the story she realizes that she needs to control her life and choose her own path.
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Post by alyssasnyder on Aug 14, 2014 14:15:32 GMT
In the “Scarlet Letter”, Hester's American dream in the beginning of the novel is to be treated equally among the townspeople and not to be frowned upon for her sins. Hester was dealt with “a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule...”. The scarlet letter had a negative symbol in the beginning of the novel, Hester was forced to wear a letter and townspeople always stared at her . As time goes by, Hester and her dream changed. The letter became a positive symbol and people started accepting her. Hester's dream was now to be free with her sin and protect her daughter.
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Post by Jordan Briske on Aug 15, 2014 0:34:43 GMT
Hester's American dream is to fit in with everyone else. This dream is formed from her having to wear the letter "A", everyone believes she is a sinner when all she hopes is to fit in. Hester feels alone and wants someone on her side, she also watches her daughter to grow up to be a outcast. However as the novel continues her American dream changes into wanting to be free, by this I mean she no longer wants Gods rules to control her life. Hester excepts the fact she is a outcast and helps the sick, poor, and those in trouble. By doing this people start to look at her in a different way. Hester's American dream changes into wanting to settle down with her family and be free. Which is why she wants to go to Europe with her daughter and the minister.
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Post by Ryan Bangtson on Aug 15, 2014 15:47:42 GMT
Hester's American Dream is to live a happy life in America with her husband, Roger Chillingworth (her husbands name in disguise). However, this dream begins to change as well as herself. Her dream changes in that she begins to dream of a shameful and scorn free life with Pearl. She herself changes by seeing the world as it really is as an outcast of society.
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Post by laurenmcrae on Aug 15, 2014 16:02:08 GMT
In the beginning of the book Hester's dream is to fit in and be treated as an equal in her society. When the news spreads about the "crime" Hester committed the people of her society want nothing to do with her and think she is some dirty sinner, "Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will always be in the heart." By the end of the book Hester's dream changes from wanting to be a part of her society, to wanting to be out of it. Hester realizes that she wants to be her own person, different from what society wants her to be, "She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom."
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Post by Emily Carter on Aug 15, 2014 16:42:34 GMT
At the start of the book, Hester's American dream is to be accepted into the community around her and to not be identified as a sinner.
But as the novel comes to an end, her dream changes. She desires to leave the her religion and the town where she committed this crime and was looked down upon for too many years. She wanted to get away from all the people that thought thing such as "This women has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there no law for it?"
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