Module: English and American Literature Form: Online seminars Tutor

Module: English and American Literature
Form: Online seminars
Tutor: Aliya M. Dinalieva
Learners: 2^nd course students of English Faculty I (BA students, Foreign language and Lit.)
TASKS FOR ON-LINE ASSESSMENT FOR 2021-2022 ACADEMIC YEAR,
^{4 ND} SEMESTER

Type of assessment	Type of activity	Form of submission	Deadline
	TASK 1. Romanticism, Abolitionism and Realism of the XIX century Identify the main heroes in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” by reading the quotes from the novel. Write short characteristics for each of them (100 words for each) Fill in the table with the names of main heroes of the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Try to memorize all the heroes Read and do literary analysis of the extract from “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain	Online (telegram) In word format Save as, for example. Your_surname_Name_T2.doc	May, 18

Name :Ahmadova Shahnoza

Group:2033

TASK 1. Romanticism, Abolitionism and Realism of the XIX century

1.1 Identify the main heroes in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” by reading the quotes from the novel. Write short characteristics for each of them (100 words for each)

Mother,” said little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. . . . It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!” “Nor ever will, my child, I hope,” said Hester. “And why not, mother?” asked Pearl, stopping short. . . . “Will it not come of its own accord, when I am a woman grown?

But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed, from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman. She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness. . . . The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

But there was a more real life for Hester Prynne here, in New England, than in that unknown region where Pearl had found a home. Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence. She had returned, therefore, and resumed,—of her own free will, for not the sternest magistrate of that iron period would have imposed it,—resumed the symbol of which we have related so dark a tale. Never afterwards did it quit her bosom. But . . . the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, and yet with reverence, too.

Pearl
Pearl is the living, respiration scarlet letter, the token of her mother's adultery. She is the being that made her mother's sin known. Both Pearl and the scarlet letter 'A' Hester has been condemned to put on are ceaseless reminders of this transgression.Hester and Pearl proceed to be in the 1640s Massachusetts Bay Colony in a Puritan community dedicated to the purification of society via way of the usage of strict utility of Christian doctrine. For the Puritans, the sin of one is the sin of all, and definitely swift punishment can cleanse the community.Both Pearl and the scarlet letter make certain Hester's limitless repentance. They are a each and every day reminder of her failure, humbling her to be given her punishment meekly.

Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a female condemned through her Puritan neighbors. The persona has been called "among the first and most vital female protagonists in American literature".A resident of Colonial America, Hester is despatched in advance to the "New World" by her husband, who later assumes the identify of Roger Chillingworth, as he has some enterprise to end before he can join her. After he is shipwrecked and captured by way of Native Americans and presumed dead, Hester continues to stay her lifestyles as a seamstress in the town. She looks to the neighborhood pastor Arthur Dimmesdale for comfort; someplace along the way ardour emerges, culminating in the concept and subsequent start of their child, Pearl. Because Hester has no husband with her, she is imprisoned, convicted of the crime of adultery, and sentenced to be pressured to put on a outstanding scarlet letter 'A' for the relaxation of her life.

Arthur Dimmesdale.

Arthur Dimmesdale is a fictional persona in the 1850 romance The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and considers himself unable to disclose his sin.Next to Hester Prynne herself, Dimmesdale is regularly considered Hawthorne's finest character. His catch 22 situation takes up a massive component of the novel, bringing out Hawthorne's most well-known statements on many of the concepts that recur in the course of his works: guilt and redemption, reality and falsehood, and others. Dimmesdale faces a hassle that is both easy and paradoxical: the knowledge of his sin, his incapacity to divulge it to Puritan society, and his wish for confession. He attempts to ameliorate the pressure of this function via punishing himself (both bodily and mentally) and via insisting to his parishioners that he is a base, worthless creature.