ENGL 2P70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intellectual Freedom, Psychoanalysis, The Scarlet Letter
28 Feb 2017
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Her analysis depends on marxist analysis like postcolonial theory. She also does new historicism and some feminist and queer stuff, common in this day and age because these theories are combined. Scarlet letter: her sin occurs because she has taken the transatlantic journey to america. Doyle is interested in thinking through how the novel thinks through colonial movement as the roots of sin. Postcolonial theory argues that all this work done to justify imperialist activity and oppression of people is done in order to reaffirm capitalism economic systems. Marxist, historical context part of the novel imperialist trade was beginning to happen in the 17th century and so all of this rhetorical work was made to justify what was happening. Hester is ostracized from the community and is obedient and follows the rules, she is standing in for the indigenous figure and also becomes her own version of it.
