4. Adultery (anglicized from Latin adulterium)
is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable
on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds.
the concept exists in many cultures and is similar
in Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
Adultery often incurred severe punishment,
usually for the woman and sometimes for the man,
with penalties including capital punishment,
mutilation, or torture.[2]
Such punishments have gradually fallen into
disfavor, especially in Western countries from the
19th century.
(Wikipedia)
5.
6. Written by Nathaniel Hawthorn.
A Novel form
Semi- allegorical, historical fiction; romance
Published in 1850, in film version 1995 defers
from novel in many extent.
Setting time- middle of the 17th century
Setting place- Boston, Massachusetts
7. Is a 2015 indian rimantic drama film
Directed by Mohit Suri
Produced by Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt
Setting (place): Mumbai (India), Dubai
8. THE SCARLET LATTER
HAMARI ADHURI
KAHANI
Hester Prynne
Reverend Arthur
Dimmesdale
Roger Chillingworth
Pearl
Vasudha
Arav
Hari
Saanj (Son of Vasudha
and Hari)
9. Hester=Hasty, Prynne=some
guilt relates
Independent woman
Hester, a woman of free will,
courage, and boldness.
Decides to live alone
Ready to do things all alone
She runs the horse- cart, people
stares at her with strange.
10. She defers from rigid puritan mindsets
We can consider her as a modern woman
She accused as a Adultery sinner by the society
Mark of ‘A’ on her dress
Still stay firm
Raise Pearl alone facing the social hatred
But her silence
Her fall also happens because of her strong and
bold nature. Her strength becomes her
weakness.
11. A young man
Famous in England
as a theologian and
emigrated to
America.
He is an intelligent
and emotional man
Good speaker
His love for Hester
and Pearl
12. His cowardice
His guilt – tormenting
himself physically and
psychologically
The mark ‘A’ (Adultery)
emerges on his chest
Finally he get against of
his nature
He broke his silence
Accepts Hester as his wife
and Pearl as his daughter.
13. A beautiful girl child of Hester and
Dimmesdale
Hawthorn beautifully uses the character of
Pearl
Exposes truths with her out spoken nature
Reveals the fake masks from the people
A good questioner in very early age
A devil’s Child
In film version Pearl as a narrator of the story
Differs from Hawthorn’s Pearl
14. A scholar
Hester’s husband in disguise
Much older than Hester
Belatedly comes to America
Captured by native
Americans
Came to know about
Hester’s extra- marital affairs
and her illegitimate child
He took a way of revenge
At the end he commits
suicide.
15. Red scarlet color bird= symbol of passion
The forest= place of having dark secretes, a
danger
The brook= symbol of ‘threshold’ and
‘woman’s boundary’
Male deer and grown horns= symbol of
sensuality
Grapes = symbol of voluptuousness
16. A Independent Woman
Unwillingly married to her
husband with insist of her
father
Grown up with typical
Indian traditional values
Falls in love with Arav after
her marriage
Still cannot take a step
ahead (here, she differs
from Hester)
17. Independent but weak
Still tied with old rigid mentality
She accepts that she is a property
of her husband
Took too much time to depart her
mangal- sutra from her neck
Finally, she recognize her hidden
fire of love and decides to fought
for that
Still could not resist to help Hari
Her goodness become her reason
of fall
After Arav’s death she lived all
alone in the wait of her death.
18. Arav is a well-
known business
tycoon who falls for
a married woman
Vasudha; who is
employee in his
company.
He unlike
Dimmesdale
19. Has guts to confess
his love for
Vasudha
Arav was readily
wanted to accept
Vasudha’s son
Saanj; and wanted
to give his name to
him. (defer from
Dimmesdale)
He dies for
Vasudha
20. Hari is a husband of Vasudha
He claimed as a part of some terrorist activities
He got imprisonment
He used to do physical/ domestic violence
with his wife
Even his attitude for her mother was quite
similar after his father’s death
Violent in nature
21. Tried to take
advantage of
Vasudha’s goodness
At last he got mad
Loves Vasudha a lot
Tries to get her back,
but fails
At the End after
Vasudha’s death he
spreads her death
ashes in that yard
where Arav died.
(end is similar to
novel’s end)
22.
23. Barren Land- symbol of tragedy or departure (gives justice
to the title)
Flowers- in adverse life one finds flowerence of a flower, but
it dies with the setting of sun too.. (temporal)
Religious and Indian mythical symbolisms
1 Seeta and Radha
2 Durga
3 Mangalsutra
4 Vermillion ‘Symbol of Chaining a woman with a man’s identity’
24. SCARLET LETTER HAMARI ADHURI KAHANI
Hester as a independent
woman
Hester do not hesitate to
express her feelings with
Dimmesdale
Dimmesdale is coward
personality
Puritan old mindsets
There is society
involvement
Here, ‘Adultery’ is a
Crime
Vasudha as a independent
woman
Vasudha afraid even to
feel love for Arav
Arav therefore stands as a
Strong personality
Traditional Indian values
Here it remains a private
matter of two (symbolism
of modernity)
It is not legally
considerable as a
‘Adultery’, but it happens.
25. Chillingworth is a
scholar, he loves Hester
He dies
In novel Pearl is an
Active voice against
wrong things (in novel),
not in film version
Dimmesdale dies early
Hester dies at old age
Hester lived independent
life till the end
Though at the end both
meets in grave yard
They lived for each other.
Hari also loves Vasudha
Hari remains alive
Saanj is a passive voice
Arav dies early
Vasudha dies at old age
Vasudha lived also an
independent life till last
breath
At the end their incomplete
story completes with their
heavenly meet. (a fictional)
They lived and died for
each other.
26. In both the stories ends are similar where the
lovers did not have quality family life. Both
have tragic though happy ends.
It centrally suggests the woman condition in
post- puritan America and modern India.
Hester seems modern in compare to her time
wherein Vasudha is still more rigid and
orthodox to express her desires in compare to
her contemporary time.
27. South Korea was one of only three
Asian countries to still criminalize adultery,
alongside Taiwan and the
Philippines. All European nations have
decriminalized adultery and, while it is not
considered a criminal offence in most Western
parts, it may still have legal consequences,
especially in divorce proceedings.
28. Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code deals
with Adultery. As per the Indian law, a woman
cannot be punished for the offense of adultery.
Only a man who has consensual sexual
intercourse with the wife of another man
without his consent can be punished under this
offense in India. If someone "lives in adultery",
the partner can file for divorce.