major brain blockage right now! ugh…
trying to write a three page essay on The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
i must “Analyze Chillingworth’s character [holey cheese there are a lot of definitions for character] and his decision to seek a slow revenge [on Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, who, like his name implies, really is dim, … and dull, and several other boring words] instead of a quick, violent solution. What is the outcome? What do you think this says about justice and revenge?”
for starters, Chillingworth is CREEPY!!! i mean, really, what kind of person would attach himself to the man that his wife CHEATED ON HIM WITH? for pete’s sake they flippin LIVE together! not only that, but Chillingworth has assigned himself to the position of Mr. Dimmesdale’s personal doctor. yeah, ok, i get that he’s upset, but it isn’t like he loved his wife! he just wanted a wife to make him feel loved. i don’t see how he could have possibly felt love from Hester, she didn’t like him, and he knew it. she refused to have his kids, and she only married him because she was forced into it! did Chillingworth just not have anything else to do with his life? why didn’t he just leave New England?! he could have traveled back to Europe, and …random music playing in the hallway?… anywho, he could have married someone else! said that Hester died on the way to New England, and once he got there, it wasn’t what he wanted so he came home! oh, and just a side note, guys who lived in the 1800’s (for the most part anyways,) SHOULD NOT WRITE TRAGIC LOVE STORIES! i’m sorry, but The Scarlet Letter was an epic FAIL. it isn’t that the story itself was bad, but Hawthorne wasted WAY too much time describing everything! (my roomie pointed that out to me) and where was the love? where in the book did it ever prove to the reader that Hester and Dimmesdale were actually in love? please show me because i would really really love to know. they didn’t even talk to each other except for when they were in the woods! then at the end, it seemed like he was trying to put in an amazing twist what with Dimmesdale and Chillingworth dying before they could leave for England, but it sucked! it was extremely underdeveloped, like he was trying to rush the finish.
Chillingworth was bitter. he didn’t like that Dimmesdale could so easily steal the one thing that he had claimed as his own, hoping to make it true. he was upset that Dimmesdale could so easily steal the heart that he wanted so badly. it isn’t like Dimmesdale was much of anything himself, i mean just look at him, the poor thing, it’s as if he’s a jellyfish. he has no spine! Dimmesdale is weak and crumples under the slight weight of the circumstances that Hester bears so easily (yes, easily. it hurt, but not enough to break her. it was easy because she had a spine like and elephant. she won’t budge unless she wants to and nothing can make her unless she chooses to.) how could such a miserable little wretch like Dimmesdale steal Hester’s enduring heart?
grrr, i just looked at the time.
1:26
you know what that means?
work.
so i won’t finish my ranting about The Scarlet Letter, but the question really is,
will i ever finish the essay?
