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Scarlett Letter and Their Eyes Were Watching God compare and
contrast The first 200 words of this essay... English 1HL,
Period 1 25 January 2008 Comparing and Contrasting the Use of
Symbols to Embrace Thematic Ideals of Female Oppression in The
Scarlet Letter and Their Eyes Were Watching God English
novelist, Virginia Woolf once said "The history of men's
opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps
than the story of that emancipation itself. Within Hawthorne's
The Scarlett Letter and Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching
God, Woolf's statement is truly evident. As a whole, both novels
have a central focus of the oppression of women in society. Both
novels contain the central theme of female oppression manifested
throughout the whole novel. Throughout Hurston's, Their Eyes
Were Watching God and Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, both
authors employ the use of symbol