The Scarlet Letter vs. Easy A
Rumours have always existed, but they aren’t always true. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about a woman named Hester, who is forced to wear a letter A on her chest to represent her sin and separate her from the Puritan community she lives in. The movie, Easy A, which is directed by Will Gluck, is reflected on the book. It is about a girl named Olive that gets a rumor about herself around the school. They happen to be reading The Scarlet Letter in her English class, so everyone compares her to Hester. There are lots of major similarities and differences between The Scarlet Letter and Easy A. One thing that is similar between the two are how Hester and Olive were treated by others. A difference is when Hester is forced …show more content…
This is the meaning behind why they wear the scarlet letter. In the book, Hester is forced to wear the A and everyone knows her by that symbol. The Puritan community is more strict about what is and is not allowed. The scarlet letter is described as “[having] the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself” (Hawthorne 56). This explains why she has to wear the scarlet letter. The people in the community want her to be separated from the rest of them. In the movie, Olive decides to make the letter A and embraces what the rumour says about her. Gluck displays this through the scene where she is walking down the hallway, when she first wears the A on her chest to school (Easy A). She shows everyone that she is not going to let the rumours get to her. She flaunts her new image of what everyone thinks she is even though it is all a lie. The reason behind wearing the scarlet letter is a good difference between the movie and book and explains how things have changed from these time
Rumours have always existed, but they aren’t always true. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about a woman named Hester, who is forced to wear a letter A on her chest to represent her sin and separate her from the Puritan community she lives in. The movie, Easy A, which is directed by Will Gluck, is reflected on the book. It is about a girl named Olive that gets a rumor about herself around the school. They happen to be reading The Scarlet Letter in her English class, so everyone compares her to Hester. There are lots of major similarities and differences between The Scarlet Letter and Easy A. One thing that is similar between the two are how Hester and Olive were treated by others. A difference is when Hester is forced …show more content…
This is the meaning behind why they wear the scarlet letter. In the book, Hester is forced to wear the A and everyone knows her by that symbol. The Puritan community is more strict about what is and is not allowed. The scarlet letter is described as “[having] the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself” (Hawthorne 56). This explains why she has to wear the scarlet letter. The people in the community want her to be separated from the rest of them. In the movie, Olive decides to make the letter A and embraces what the rumour says about her. Gluck displays this through the scene where she is walking down the hallway, when she first wears the A on her chest to school (Easy A). She shows everyone that she is not going to let the rumours get to her. She flaunts her new image of what everyone thinks she is even though it is all a lie. The reason behind wearing the scarlet letter is a good difference between the movie and book and explains how things have changed from these time