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Use of Nature: 1] The Scarlet Letter

2] The Old Man and the Sea

3] Hamari Adhuri Kahani

1] The Scarlet Letter

Nathanial Hawthorn

Nathanial Hawthorn was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings centers on New England, many featuring moral allegories with a puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered a part of the Romantic Movement, and more specifically dark romantics. His published works includenovels, short stories and biography of his friend Franklin Pierce.

- The House of the Seven Gables (1815)

- Fanshawe (1852)

- The Doliver Romance (1852)

- Twice – Told Tales (1837)

- The Scarlet Letter (1850) (Hawthorne, 1850)

Use of Nature in ‘The Scarlet Letter’

Nature plays a critical role in the Scarlet Letter. Nature acts in contrast to puritan society. It creates various symbol and imagery. Nathanial Hawthorn used dual side of Nature in the novel

1] Nature forces to characters

2] Human nature

1] Nature forces to characters

Generally forest symbolizes evil things like wild plant, wild animal and ghost. Nature used as a narrator of this novel. Nature is everything for human being. It gives strength to character.

1 .Nature,

2. Hester,

3. Pearl,

4. Dimmesdale

Nature plays a vital role in three characters: Hester, Pearl and Dimmesdale. Nature is something which provides sympathy in their life. It makes their life beautiful. The voice of nature can be sympathetic, judgmental, ironic, and warm and harsh. They are in the lap of Mother Nature. Nature provides courage and hope in each character.

Hester Prynne’s relationship to Nature and to the natural world

Hester Prynne waits seven year for her husband, Chilingworth but unfortunately he was not come and so she starts loving to Dimmesdale a priest of church. Due to the birth of Pearl she got punishment by the society. She accepts punishment and enters the forest with Pearl.

In the forest Hester shapes her true and real individuality. It is a real savior for her. It’s a kind of isolated place where she creates her own religion. She feels happy in the forest. There is nobody ready in society to accept her so she has happily accepted her punishment. It becomes a holy place for Hester. Nature is everything for Hester whether it is society or family.

Hester’s relation to Nature

Hester enters in the forest with her daughter, Pearl. She starts living there. She creates her own religion and own family in forest. Nature becomes a kind of society in her life. She has accepted her punishment happily because she knew that artificial society will not help but Nature will ready to accept everything.

“Coming back to Nature”

She is living in society but there were no one who can understand her condition. Only she knew that she is right and Nature will be with her. She has both experience, first she lived in society (with people) and second with Nature. She feels better to live in Nature than society.

In the forest Hester shapes her true and real individuality. Nature itself proved that it’s a real savior. Hawthorn gives the description of Nature is totally fresh. She has creates her own community. Nature is flexible and human nature is rigid for Hester. Hawthorn shows perfection in Nature and imperfection in human nature.

Pear’s relationship to Nature

By birth Pearl is extra ordinary child. She speaks truth and enjoyed the fruit of Nature. Hester gave her dream to Pearl. Hester and Pearl forced to form a community of own. They are n the lap of Mother Nature. The feels free because they are away from the responsibility. Nature is a Pearl’s playmate. She is free from everything.

Pearl is an innocent girl and she is a symbol for Hester to live. She doesn’t aware about rules regulation of society so she is happy with Nature. She gets everything from Nature and therefore she does not think beyond the Nature. Nature is real savior of life.

Nature is also innocent but when we cross the boundaries of Nature then it becomes problematic. Pearl brought up in Nature. She played with plants and animals which provides her warm, love and attention. She never hoped for another child. She asked such silly questions to her mother which suggest that she learn so many things from Nature and she can able to rise against anything if she finds herself in problem.

Dimmesdale’s relationship to Nature

Dimmesdale is lover of Hester hut he doesn’t have courage or strength to accept Hester. He kept himself secret in society but he ever goes to meet Hester in the forest. He feels free in Nature because ther is no who can stop loving.

For the puritans, the forest is a place of evil and ironically it becomes a holy place for Hester and Dimmesdale: it is where they meet and “practice a holy feeling accompanied by beautiful and holy elements of Nature.

Human nature in novel

People were ready to give punishment. They don’t have ability to understand the situation of other. They have steeples mentality. Even Hester has no family and she needs support but they were forcing to her to speak the name of lover. Society is artificial. They are unaware about their work. Who is real sinner society or Hester? People are imperfect in the society.

Hester accept punishment. She knew that she is on right way still she accepts. It shows the strength of a woman. She proves that a woman can do everything. She doesn’t need help of other. She knew everything and if she tells all things than she will be like other and therefore she keeps hides. She creates her own morality in the forest. After her punishment she free from restriction.

Pearl learns so many things from Nature. She is innocent and doesn’t like any restriction. She wants to keep herself free.

Dimmesdale loves to Hester but he doesn’t have courage to accept. He thinks about his status. It seems he give much importance to it rather than human being or facing reality.

Chilingworth represent dual side in the novel. At first he was good but after knowing about Hester’s affair he becomes cruel. He thinks that a woman must follow her husband. He doesn’t want to accept his wife.

Use of Nature in ‘The Old man and The Sea’

Earnest Hemingway

Earnest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Chicago. The newspaper advocated short sentences, short paragraphs, active verbs, authenticity, compression, clarity and immediacy. Hemingway later said:

“These were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. I’ve never forgotten them”. (2003, p. 1)

Hemingway has been considered a finer writer of short stories than of novels, and his collections Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933) are particularly noble.

He lived motley in Cuba, Where his passion for deep sea fishing provided the setting for his most successful later work, The Old Man and The Sea (1952), a parable novella about man’s struggle against nature.

The novel is about the journey of Santiago, an old man. He went too far in to sea. He worked hard to catching a fish but when he reached at Havana the fish was already rubbed by sharks. He had a concept

Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it. (2003p. 46)

Santiago is an old man still he has hoped to achieve something new in life. He went too far in Nature. He doesn’t care whether he lives or die. There is description of month that anyone can go for fishing in May because the calmness of weather.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May (2003p. 8)

He went in September; it is a month o monsoon. The cycle of nature is ever changing. He starts his journey in morning. He lived alone on the sea but he think that no one is alone on sea because there are so many creature in sea. He starts speaking with himself and even he doesn’t know when he has started speaking with himself.

The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the grey-blue hills behind it. The water was dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple. (2003p. 21)

The beautiful nature is on one day. The nature is changing every time. Even he cannot say that is it afternoon or evening?

Can that be the time of day? Or is it some sign of weather that I do not know? (2003p. 25)

He ever looking at sky and feels that he is alone but he could see the prisms in the deep dark water. It gives him relax. He fights against nature. He challenges the nature that he will go with achievement (fish).

Better weather for me than for you fish. (2003p. 42)

If the water is calm then it is better for old man to catch the fish and if it turns into wild than it will better for fish to save his life from old man.

He feels happy on sea. It is a time to think only about him. He starts believing in such relation with creature.

It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. (2003p. 53)

It is good to kill brother than enemy. He was very near to kill fish but whether was changing continuously.

“There will be bad weather in three four days’, he said, ‘But not tonight and not tomorrow”. (2003p. 57)

If weather is changing than he makes plan before the climate change. He ever tries to escape from bad (Hemingway E. , 2003)weather and he also succeeds. The sea is a long island for a man.

“A man is never lost at a and it is a long island” (2003p. 64)

How he is changing the perspective towards sea. In the sea we always find dark but an island gives sympathy and relax. The climate is totally dangerous but the perspective towards climax is calm.

Use of Nature in Hamari Adhuri Kahani

Mohit Suri is director of Hamari Adhuri Kahani. Use of Nature is totally different from both novels. The movie starts with forest where Vidya sacrifice her life. It gives relax from the world.

Here Nature is a symbol of love and innocent. Vidya Balan keeps life free with Nature. She used to keep herself with nature to forget her husband. In the movie flourish nature used as a symbol of peace and love. Nature is something which provides sympathy in their life. It makes her life beautiful.

When Imran Ashmin asked to Vidya that which thing you can make happy then replied Nature or flower. The place where Imran Ashmin dies was natural. Vidya’s husband Shri Hari wants to throw her ash at the place where Imran Ashmin dies.

Nature helps for their close relation and Nature itself responsible for their departure. Nature is a friend if we go on following otherwise it becomes wild for anyone. Nature is unexpected thing.

Vidya Balan is an innocent lady but she has to suffer a lot because of others behavior towards her. She behaved with her son as mother. She is providing everything but others police are looking at her as she is widow. Imran Ashmin mother gives sympathy but it turns in to problem.

She starts loving to Imran but letter on her husband came back to home. He was extremely looking as terrorist because he has spent 20 years with terrorist. He behaved as terrorist towards her wife Vidya.

Imran Ashmin gives a new life to Vidya but what is the meaning of new life because it becomes obstacle in her life. Mostly human behavior is calm but a few times it is dangerous or unexpected.

Shri Hari, her husband has love for her but he doesn’t want that she loves to other and therefore he turns in to cruel. All are good or right in their ways but circumstances creates problems in their life.

Conclusion

The nature in Scarlet Letter and Old Man and The Sea is somewhere similar. In Scarlet Letter forest is providing everything and even Hester and Pearl creates their own identity. In Old man and The Sea, the nature is wild but Santiago challenging to nature that he is capable I front of nature. In both novels there is wild nature but both symbolizing other one. In Hamari Adhuri Kahani, the nature is flourish and providing such kind of sympathy. Somewhere human behavior or human nature is similar in all three.

Works Cited

Hawthorne, N. (1850). The Scarlet Letter. United State: Ticknor, Reed & Fields.

Hemingway, E. (2003). The Old Man and The Sea. New Delhi: Peacock books.

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