Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 tend to embody the ideas of their age and time. One being of a young Hester Prynne and her punishment that haunts her, but eventually becomes what characterizes her. With her daughter by her side, she is able to endure her punishment. The other being of one named Montag becoming a martyr for the survival and continued use of books. In Montag’s universe, books are outlawed, not by the government, but by the people. Like all works, or at the very least, most, these pieces of literature were shaped by the views and ideologies, attitudes, and and time periods they were written and set in. Literature captures the lifeblood of an age, no matter what age it is.
The ideals of a time are ever-present in the works of that time. In Hawthorne’s piece, he wrote, “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” (84). Such desperation would be taken vastly different from our society today, with arising feminist views and those opposing that. Then, it was …show more content…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was originally published in 1850, though it was set in 1642 and continues years after that. Hawthorne inputs the ideals of the mid 1600s well, with the chief religion being Puritan and their strict rules. He does, although, incorporate his age and impact in “The Custom House”, by putting his information through another character. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953, yet set in a futuristic setting and dystopian-like. Bradbury did so due to the fact that technology was being introduced in his time, and many feared technology would take over people’s lives. Society believed technology would lead many to a bad future, and he attempted to represent that in a fictional setting. The influence seen in Fahrenheit 451 is obviously more evident than in The Scarlet
The ideals of a time are ever-present in the works of that time. In Hawthorne’s piece, he wrote, “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” (84). Such desperation would be taken vastly different from our society today, with arising feminist views and those opposing that. Then, it was …show more content…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was originally published in 1850, though it was set in 1642 and continues years after that. Hawthorne inputs the ideals of the mid 1600s well, with the chief religion being Puritan and their strict rules. He does, although, incorporate his age and impact in “The Custom House”, by putting his information through another character. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953, yet set in a futuristic setting and dystopian-like. Bradbury did so due to the fact that technology was being introduced in his time, and many feared technology would take over people’s lives. Society believed technology would lead many to a bad future, and he attempted to represent that in a fictional setting. The influence seen in Fahrenheit 451 is obviously more evident than in The Scarlet