Our English homework was to write a blog post about the
presentation we are supposed to be making on the novels we have read during the
holidays. I'll start with The Scarlet Letter. I see the main character Hester
Prynne, as a heroine -- a woman who is headstrong and defiant in the face of
injustice. If some extremely religious, puritanical person read this novel,
they would probably see Hester as a whore who deserved to be stoned to
death.
Then there's Metamorphosis -- a story about
a man who wakes up one day as a giant bug. I personally think the giant bug
thing is about a person who is alienated from society. Soooo... I don't know. I
could see this interpreted as racism if read by someone who has gone through it
first-hand.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is... very
homoerotic. I quite enjoyed it actually. When it was published during the
Victorian era, it was thoroughly censored. I didn't even notice all the
double-entendres but I guess the Victorians did.
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