Examples Of Misogyny In The Scarlet Letter

Feminist literary criticism

Pride and prejudice and the scarlet letter implement misogyny and use their own century’s gender roles to criticize the inequality in women. Both the novels see the women as inferior; as on Pride and Prejudice females are seen as a status tool that marries into a higher class and obtains a higher status. The Scarlet letter shuns women by holding a female accountable for her sins, humiliating and punishing them by forcing to wear a red scarlet letter a that lowers their status,gives them a bad look, and negatively affects the first impressions of anyone they meet. There are contrasting and similar differences in their constructive criticism towards women

In The Scarlet Letter, there is a lot of examples and evidence

This show of misogynistic ideas and practices is in correlation with Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Elizabeth bennet’s her sisters are undervalued and ticketed of as victims of misogyny and male dominance.

The novel was published in 1850 around the same time of the suffrage movement. The first wave of feminism took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, emerging out of an environment of urban industrialism and liberal, socialist politics. The goal was to open up opportunities for women, with a focus on suffrage. Nathaniel Hawthorne writing in one of the first feminist novels must have been influenced by these movements as it is not coincidental. Historian such as Alexis de Tocqueville was a historian, at the time was concerned with the whole concept of

This quote shows most of the men's thoughts about feminism at the time they felt that they would be wild,crazy,and unwomanly,however this not being the case in the Scarlet Letter, more so evident that in Pride and Prejudice, the women are expected to be more educated rather the outgoing and more rebellious them society puts them up to be.

In Pride and Prejudice women were not uphold to the highest propriety and as the main protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet does not hold herself to the highest propriety as what's accepted in the novel. The female roll and her feud in this society are that counteracts the social norms of what female are expected to follow throughout the novel. Elevation, as well as character change and gender roles in the novel, show its misogynistic standards towards women. The challenges faced by Hester and Elizabeth had a negative impact on their character and their female roles are seen as inferior. In these two novels, the female role is inferior to men as the social environment completely affects each character's actions. Men who were the only members of a family that could inherit wealth. Due to the influences of money in the characters of pride and prejudice, tried to do as much as they can to obtain