smartyr
12-04-2002, 02:01 PM
the biggest metaphor in this song is the scarlet letter because if you read the book there are som friggin many connectins it isnt even funny. This is an interesting use of the book The scarlet letter. A truly kick ass book with just as many deeper meanings as a tool album. The idea here is that a scarlet letter is used to punish a person. However in the book it is used to punish a women who is then ostracized for it. as a result of being ostracized she is forced to think outside the conformist boundaries of puritanism and becomes so far advanced from her peers that were trying to punish her but instead made her better than they were. IN the end the punishment is her greatest asset because it allows her to transcend the boundaries of the life that would otherwise surround her and make her soul dead inside form all the bullshit of scoiety. so you can see the very concpet of the book rlates so easily to tool.
. At anycase I would consider a scarlet letterman to be one who wears a scarlett letter and therefore someone who cheated. I don't know if this song is specifically from maynards perspective, ut it may be. The other character from the scarlet letter that this could relate to strongly is thehusband of the adulter, roger chillingsworth. this guy is a compete asshole who will not let go of his grudge against his wifes cheater, who is not known to the town but is only known to him and his once wife. even dimmsdale doesn't know he knows.He being a doctor moves in with the sickly priest and won't let him forget his sins. HE destroys the soul within dimmsdale and makes him so weak it is inescapable. However by doing so he makes himself so obsessed that he is not healthy inside. his soul turns black. HE actually dies a year after dimmsdales sudden death which lets you know that revenge was his life's one pupose. IT killed him. if you read the book this character really seems to embody the song however I get the felling maynard only uses him as a reference point and not as the subject f the song.
Finally the stone.... the physical emobiment of this grudge. perhaps it couild be the actual scarlet letter from the boook.. i'm thinking of scene where hester throws off but puts it back on because her daughter wont recognize her) so there is the cant let go part... there is something holding herster back... but it isn't a grudge although her character is wicked awesome. I'm beginning to feel like it's a combination of chillingsworthand hester. metaphorically that is. HE uses these to character to describe what people need to do. IF they give up what's holding them back like HEster did then they can finally achieve that transcendance that allows utter freedom. yet there are still the others that can't let go. the chillingsworth. PERHAPS IT IS MAYNARDS BATTLE WITHIN TO RID HIMSELF THE THINGS THAT SURROUND HIM AND DISALLOW HIM TO EXPERIENCE THE TRANSCENDANCE MOST OF US SO DESPERATELY DESIRE. HE IS LIKE A CHLLINGSMORTH CHARACTER AND IS DYING INSIDE TO FEEL WHAT HESTER HAS. i THINK MAYBE THAT IS MAYNARDS IDEA TO USE THIS BOOK AS A REFEREENCE FOR THE TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE, just my thought
. At anycase I would consider a scarlet letterman to be one who wears a scarlett letter and therefore someone who cheated. I don't know if this song is specifically from maynards perspective, ut it may be. The other character from the scarlet letter that this could relate to strongly is thehusband of the adulter, roger chillingsworth. this guy is a compete asshole who will not let go of his grudge against his wifes cheater, who is not known to the town but is only known to him and his once wife. even dimmsdale doesn't know he knows.He being a doctor moves in with the sickly priest and won't let him forget his sins. HE destroys the soul within dimmsdale and makes him so weak it is inescapable. However by doing so he makes himself so obsessed that he is not healthy inside. his soul turns black. HE actually dies a year after dimmsdales sudden death which lets you know that revenge was his life's one pupose. IT killed him. if you read the book this character really seems to embody the song however I get the felling maynard only uses him as a reference point and not as the subject f the song.
Finally the stone.... the physical emobiment of this grudge. perhaps it couild be the actual scarlet letter from the boook.. i'm thinking of scene where hester throws off but puts it back on because her daughter wont recognize her) so there is the cant let go part... there is something holding herster back... but it isn't a grudge although her character is wicked awesome. I'm beginning to feel like it's a combination of chillingsworthand hester. metaphorically that is. HE uses these to character to describe what people need to do. IF they give up what's holding them back like HEster did then they can finally achieve that transcendance that allows utter freedom. yet there are still the others that can't let go. the chillingsworth. PERHAPS IT IS MAYNARDS BATTLE WITHIN TO RID HIMSELF THE THINGS THAT SURROUND HIM AND DISALLOW HIM TO EXPERIENCE THE TRANSCENDANCE MOST OF US SO DESPERATELY DESIRE. HE IS LIKE A CHLLINGSMORTH CHARACTER AND IS DYING INSIDE TO FEEL WHAT HESTER HAS. i THINK MAYBE THAT IS MAYNARDS IDEA TO USE THIS BOOK AS A REFEREENCE FOR THE TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE, just my thought