Comparing The Scarlet Letter And Will Gluck's Easy A

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Will Gluck’s Easy A, they share several similarities and differences. The Scarlet Letter is based during the 17th century when the Puritans came over from Europe seeking out religious freedom. Easy A is set out in a California setting in high school in the 21st century. When comparing the two, one major thing stuck out, a big and red letter A. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter starts off with a big crowd gathering from the jail door to the town square. As Hester Prim walks with baby Pearl in her arms, colonists taunt her. Hester’s face stays straight, not giving these people the satisfaction of their actions getting to her. She is dressed in a velvety red dress with a big red letter A abroad her …show more content…
They throw food at her, call her names, and teach their children what happens to those that break the commandments. While up on the podium, Mr. Dimmesdale, the unknown lover, and Reverend Wilson question Hester as to whom the father is, but she refuses to name her lover, and swears to take the secret to her grave. What Hester Prim doesn’t know is at the same time this is happening, her husband, whom has taken the name Roger Chillingworth, has returned and is questioning what is happening. He eventually makes himself known to Hester Prim, by pretending to be a physician. Roger demands that Hester tells no one of who is really is or he will destroy the father. After Hester was released from jail, her and Pearl lived alone in a quite cottage by the water, making money by doing stitch work for others, while her husband is acting as the treating physician for Mr. Dimmesdale, but the treatment that Dimmesdale is unknowingly taking is poison. In Easy A, Olive is approached by her friend Brandon, Dan Byrd, in a plea for help. Brandon faces everyday bullying from his peers for his sexuality, so they came up with this wild scheme that can fix it all, Olive pretending to have sex with Brandon at a party so that no one will think that he is gay. After this escapade took place, every invisible, bullied, and unpopular boy asked Olive to do the …show more content…
Dimmesdale make a plan to flee away to Europe with Pearl and start a new life. On Election Day when they were going to put the plan into action, it took a turn for the worse. Mr. Dimmesdale takes a stumble and almost falls after his sermon. After noticing Hester and Pearl in the crowd, he goes up the scaffold, confesses his sins, and then dies in Hester’s arms. People swear that they saw a scar that resembled an A on his chest. The truth had finally come out which took the opportunity of revenge away from Roger Chillingworth. Shortly after Dimmesdale’s death, Chillingworth follows behind him. Chillingworth leaves Pearl a great deal of money for her on Hester to go to Europe and marry wealth. Hester eventually returned to Boston and became a solace for woman to come to, while remaining to wear the letter A. When Hester died, she was burned by Dimmesdale’s grave, where they shared a tombstone that said “On a field, sable, the letter A gules” (Hawthorne). As Easy A came to a conclusion, Olive went to each of the guys and asked them to tell everyone the truth, but they declined her plea full request because it put them on the map in high school. Right when Olive was giving up, she was asked on a date by Anson, played by Jake Sandvig, which made her believe the lies didn’t matter anymore. As she is on the date, Olive notices Woodchuck Todd, played by Penn Badgley, singing Happy Birthday