Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird And The Scarlet Letter

In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne can share similar meaning to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In both these all around created novels it demonstrates vital subjects all through these books. These novels can be associated by Thomas Hardy quote which states,”A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling; it must have something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experience of every average man and women.” This quote can relate to the novels because in both stories they experience something unusual to be related to an ordinary person. Due to the fact of both novels having something to do with a experience of something unordinary, has caused to grabbed the reader's attention. In Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, he writes a gloomy story that talks about a young woman named, Hester Prynne. As the story begins Hawthorne states,” …that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom.”(Hawthorne 32). In this time, it was unusual for someone to have a scarlet letter since women only got these because they have committed the sin of adultery. This scarlet
Hawthorne states, “There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray. Elsewhere, the token of sin, it was the taper of the sick chamber.”(Hawthorne 90). This is a case, on how normal individuals don't have a token of sin embroidered on them.What’s more, she has a component that makes herself stand out from all the normal individuals. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.”(Lee ).This is an example, that no one needs a gun in order to defend themselves. Nowadays it's unusual for people to not defend themselves with guns since they feel more protected by it and in reality it's better to talk things