the scarlet letter vs the tell-tale heart?
Posted by admin on Oct 12, 2009
after reading the short story "the tell-tale heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, and "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathanial Hawthorne, our teacher gave us 3 questions to answer
1)Why do you think you were assigned to read this sotry? (hint- draw analogies to the scarlet letter)
2) Who does the narrator of the story mist likely represent from "The Scarlet Letter?
3) Why would this short story, like "the scarlet letter", appeal to modern audiences?
even if you just know one question, please help!! thank so much
1) to torture juniors…JK=]
if you mean assigned to read The Tell-Tale Heart…
– it seems to have no connection to present day, right? Actually, it does there have been psychopaths all through history =] , murder has been seen throughout the generations , and not to mention the fact that our conscience is generally the one thing that urges us to do the right thing — I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for or not, but it’s always worth a try
2) I’m not sure what you mean, sorry, I’m going to skip it
3) I would think that people can relate to them today, not exactly literally, but…how to explain?…okay…in the Tell-Tale Heart, his conscience beats like the heart under the floorboards; people do things all the time that after they have done it they become paranoid that someone will find out until they finally confess it themselves
– for the Scarlet Letter: everyone sins, everyone does something wrong, everyone makes mistakes, everyone pays for their mistakes in a way, they deal with their past
– something more literal =] : in the Scarlet Letter, Pearl grows
