Comparison of ‘The Scarlet letter’(TSL) and ‘Hamari Adhuri Kahani’(HAK).

Name: Deepika VajaPaper : The American literature Topic: Comparison of The Scarlet letter and Hamari Adhuri Kahani Enrollment no: PG14101031.Year & class: 2014-16 & M.A -2Roll no:04deepikavaja3733@gmail.com Dept. of English M. K. Bhavnagar University.

Index Introduction Plot Characters Narration Common thinks in TSL & HAK Which is better Film or Novel? Portrayal of women in the film and novel Conclusion

Introduction

The scarlet letter (TSL)

• Nathaniel Hawthorne• 1850• Symbolic novel(‘A’)• The customhouse• salem, Massachusetts.

Hamari Adhuri Kahani (HAK)

• Mohit Suri • Mahesh Bhatt• 2015• Romantic drama film• Dubai and Mumbai.

The Scarlet Letter Hamari Adhuri Kahani

Plot TSL

• Surveyor of the customhouse in salem, Massachusetts.

• Town prison with her infant daughter, pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast.

• Chillingworth seemingly caused by psychological distress.

• she again refuses to identify her child’s father.

• Puritan society punish to Hester, she is adultery.

HAK• In Bastar district, stumbles &

falls down to vasudha.• Hari sees a psychiatrist about

hallucinations of his wife.• Time pass she meets and fell

in love Aarav.• He offer job in his hotel.• Hari murdered five American

journalist and police arrested and he is wanted criminal.

•Hester and pearl leave together , standing before the town scaffold.•Death of Dimmesdale.•live in her old cottage and resume her charitable work.•Death of chillingworth.•Hester has adult and angel•End Hester is die.

•She work and said that Hari sacrifice to her love.•Aarav said to Hari is innocent.•Death of Aarav•In present Hari wait to vasudha.•Death of Vasudha.

Characters TSL(The Scarlet Latter)

Hester Prynne

Arthur Dimmesda

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Roger Chillingwo

rthPearl

(HAK) Hamari Adhuri Kahani

Vasudha Aarav Ruparel Hari

Narration TSL

• The nameless narrator.• Flash back techniques.• wait for 7 year• Two hundred years before

the narrator’s time.• Death of chillingworth• Time pass way pearl

married a aristocrat person.

HAK

• Its begin in vasudha’s house.

• Funeral’s of his wife.• Flash back techniques. Hari

read for his son’s dairy• The story jump to past.• Husband is missing 5 year.• He waits for vasudha 21

years in vain.• Death of Aarav.

Common thinks in TSL & HAK• Story about women identity.• Incomplete love story.• Both are pure and adultery.• Free and individual personality.• Men are cruel.• Both care to her child (Pearl and Vasudha’s son)• Leave alone.• At end both are reunite and their

grave near by their lover.• Personal thinks.

Which is better ? TSL OR HAKDeep reading of textSetting – The customhouse

Location

No sound or voice

No background musicAuthor's personal life

No visual effect

In film HAKLocationCamera dialogueSetting – Hotel and house

Visual images Loud musicSound and voice Audio – visual images Filmmaker personal life

Portrayal of women in the film and novel.

• Why always women have to give identity for her purity?

• Why always punish to women? Not men?• Fault of men?• Why not asked for men, he is purity or not?• Why always question to women not men?• It is that women are bad and men are good. It is

true? • Women leave alone . It is evil ?• And men?

Conclusion

• So we conclude that In film screenplays makes logical sense.

• Both are Heavy melodramatic.• Film is better than to the novel.• Filmmaker portrayed women are struggle and how

she is against to her family & society. Feminine perspective in both of them.

• So we can say that men as cruel, religios and rigid person. They represent social men, not individual. In film and novel, women are center & individual.

Source: • Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston, 1850.• Spark note. 2007. <http://www.sparknotes_the scarlet

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