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Post by samc1 on Aug 18, 2014 22:31:29 GMT
Some of the puritanical ideals are still around today. For example, if you commit adultery today, the woman maybe be humiliated and shamed for what she did, but the man sometimes will not be shamed or humiliated because he is a man. Men and women should be treated equally for the actions that they do. For Hester, she committed adultery and was humiliated in front of the town while Reverend does not get punished because he is a male and they believed at the time and still today that males are superior over females.
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Post by ryan on Aug 18, 2014 22:37:36 GMT
During Speak Melinda Sorndo begins high school in a terrible way. During the previous summer she went to a party with friends which ended in her calling the police, because of this her friends and others at her school begin reject her without reason other than that. She wants to be with her so called “friends” but instead gets nothing but cold shoulders and glares, even being mocked and laughed at on the first day of school getting hit in the chest by a slop of potatoes and laughed at during the first day of school. Along with all of the ridicule of the students she has to deal with a faceless English teacher, an evil social studies teacher, a strange yet magical art teacher and a non-English speaking Spanish teacher. All of these variables add up to an unbearable school year.
Melinda’s “American dream” is to live her life without having the fear to speak against the horrors of sexual assault and rape. She spends the school year with Heather who is just trying to make her more popular when she is becoming more and more depressed stealing late passes to avoid class and spend time in an abandoned janitor’s closet and going so far as to skip complete days of schools causing her grades to plummet. Do to this drop in Melinda’s grades her parents and guidance counselor try to speak with her about why but Melinda shuts them out and try’s to ignore them. Throughout the year Melinda has to try to avoid “IT” or Andy Evans a high school senior who raped Melinda when she was thirteen years old at the summer party and takes a liking to her friend Rachel (asking her out to prom) and tells her about it feeling strong about after refusing to be used by Heather who was made responsible to decorate for prom. She deals with this problem by telling Rachel about it though she doesn’t believe her Melinda gains her self-respect and dignity back and gains back her voice speaking to her art teacher about it and finishing her tree ending her suffering once and for all and finally earning her peace of mind.
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Post by ryan on Aug 19, 2014 1:40:11 GMT
Laws and Ideals carried over from puritan society and religion range from racial and sexual inequality all across America though it has over time been seen as taboo continuously as the people of America become accepting of all other people. A large ideal drawn from puritan beliefs is that Adultery is still frowned upon, not to the extent of the puritan law, but none the less the person of said adultery is seen as lesser to some others. In other terms a man that is seen with multiple women is seen as a higher being and is called a "stud" or "player" women are seen as lesser being frowned upon and called several less than pleasing names. Public shaming might not be allowed anymore but what about the media am I right? right? Ehhhhh.
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Post by darrendowdy on Aug 19, 2014 2:06:39 GMT
During the time period of the Puritan era, more often than not the woman would always be the one to blame and would be shamed by the public. As for the males, not so much. It was still a society that believed that men were simply the better gender and they held the power so even their sins would not affect their day to day life as much. As of today the gender equality has become a lot more stable, women have been given all the rights men have and we see more and more women in politics and the work force today. With that said, women are still being put under men. For example, women often get less pay or like in the military, there is no women's combat gear, they have to wear what the men would. Another point would be that when a sexual crime was committed, the general public will say that "she was asking for it" or "did you see the clothes she was wearing?" In reality, today's fashion to stay modern do not give women a lot of options.
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Post by Nicholas Charts on Aug 19, 2014 2:16:36 GMT
During this time of American society that was founded on Puritanical ideals, laws and regulations many thing today would have been considered a sin or at least highly frowned upon. Today some of these laws, ideals are still the same. One would be the use of a civil and functioning society of the better of peoples survival. Another is wearing the proper amount of clothing to cover ones skin (even though it has become much more lenient its still a law in most of the worlds society). Also puritanism suggests moral correctness, people frown upon murder, theft, lying, etc.
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Post by gavinpara on Aug 19, 2014 3:28:31 GMT
Ideals, laws and regulations from the puritanical period still remain today. In the puritanical period adultery was a much more severe punishment; death, Scarlett letter, and social rejection and embarrassment. In modern America adultery is looked down from the society and you become an unloyal person anymore, frowned upon. More laws still exist like the Ten Commandments but they are not punishable offenses like in the puritanical period were the religious laws were the same as the punishable laws.
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Post by nate237 on Aug 19, 2014 10:16:34 GMT
Some of the things that were seen in the time of the Scarlett letter have been negated in some way, for example someone now to do exactly what Hester did would not receive such a harsh punishment to go to jail, however they would be seen In a negative light on how they acted. As of now in our society a female would get a worse reputation for committing adultery as a male would.
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Post by tamipridgeon on Aug 19, 2014 20:34:17 GMT
I don't think anybody really likes the idea of cheating on your significant other and I think even though there are Puritan laws, regulations, and rules not every single person may follow them. Just like Hester being shunned by her society because she wore the letter "A" on her chest, things similar to that happen today as well. I think sexism is a good example for the Scarlet Letter which is definitely still present today because in some countries men are a loud to have more than one wife but a if a woman had more than one husband she would get mistreated and disrespected by others like being called names. But men seem to get some sort of reward or being looked up to by some people as well if they cheat on there wife.
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Post by Teagans on Aug 20, 2014 20:03:41 GMT
In the Puritan age people had people of authority judge your case just like they do today. These people of power run on the Christianity as their main religion and what they base their rules off of like we do in the 21st century today. Today we don't have a scarlet letter to put on us, but we do have what people told us and what the media says. Now a days we have what a face to put in relation to an adulator or a murderer rather then an actual thing.
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Post by RachelBoone on Aug 27, 2014 1:12:54 GMT
The one main ideal that can be seen in both the Puritan society of The Scarlet Letter and in the 21st century is certain person's views on adultery and gender equality. Certain societies might have different levels of morality and to some people adultery is a serious offense, and in certain countries it can be almost more serious of an offence then it was shown in The Scarlet Letter. In American if a spouse is found cheating, they may or may not get divorced. In other countries, like the ones found in the middle east, if a women gets caught committing adultery they can be sent to jail, out of the country, or even be killed, while men can cheat or marry more than one women with no fault. In countries like these also arises the problems of gender equality. Women don't get paid as much for doing the same job as men, they can't drive, and often times get treated awful and unfairly just because of their sex. In chapter 5 it tells that adultery was a great sin to commit and the punishment deserves all the pain, showing how serious this crime was;"Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once been innocent, —as the figure, the body, the reality of sin".
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