The Scarlet Letter

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Delve into The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne s meditation on human alienation and its effect on the soul in this story set in seventeenth century Massachusetts and be dazzled by literature In Nathaniel Hawthorne s dark novel, The Scarlet Letter, a single sinful act ruins the lives of three people None so than Hester Prynne, a young, beautiful, and dignified woman, who conceived a child out of wedlock and receives the public punishment of having to always wear a scarlet A on her clothing She refuses to reveal the father of her child, which could lighten her sentence Her husband, the aptly named Roger Chillingworth, who Hester thought had died in a shipwreck but was actually being held captive by Native Americans, arrives at the exact moment of her deepest public shaming and vows to get revenge Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains safely unidentified, but is wracked with guilt Though originally published in 1850, the story is set in seventeenth century Massachusetts among Hawthorne s Puritan ancestors In The Scarlet Letter, he created a story that highlighted both their weaknesses and their strengths His knowledge of their beliefs and his admiration for their way of life was balanced by his concerns about their rigid and oppressive rules.Complete and unabridged, this elegantly designed, clothbound edition features an elastic closure and a new introduction by Mike Lee Davis. New Read [ The Scarlet Letter ] By [ Nathaniel Hawthorne ] – kino-fada.fr Hester walked across the room She stepped upon her left foot, her right foot, and then her left foot again One wonders, why doth she, in this instance of walking across the room, begin her journey upon the left foot and not the right Could it be her terrible sin, that the devil informeth the left foot just as he informeth the left hand and those bewitched, left handed persons amongst us Why, forsooth, doth the left foot of sin draggeth the innocent right foot along its wretched journey from Hester walked across the room She stepped upon her left foot, her right foot, and then her left foot again One wonders, why doth she, in this instance of walking across the room, begin her journey upon the left foot and not the right Could it be her terrible sin, that the devil informeth the left foot just as he info...The story, not bad The style, unreadable Here is who I would recommend this book to people who like sentences with 4 or 5 thoughts, and that are paragraph length so that they are nearly impossible to understand because by the time the end, of the sentence, has b...I found my old high school review of this book Here s a little bit of my assessment Apologiese in advance If there is a hell, Hawthorne is the devil s sidekick, and the first thing you re given after the stark realization that you re in hell, on fire, and this is going to last forever is this book And you have to do a 10 page paper praising the wondrous virtues of this massive waste of time And after you ve finished writing in your own blood, mind you your stupid paper, you are given an I ...Behold, verily, there is the women of the Scarlet Letter and, of a truth, over, there is the likeness of the scarlet letter running alongside herLet s talk a little bit about self fulfilling prophecy If an entire community, and religious sect, brand a girl s mother as a sinner, whether justly or unjustly, then surely the girl will take some of...THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A PREECHERS SPERM IT HAS UPTIGHT PEOPLE IN ITActually, I ve read this book twice, the first time when I was in high school Reading it again after some thirty years, I was amazed at the amount of meaning I d missed the first time Most modern readers don t realize and certainly aren t taught in school that Hawthorne as his fiction, essays and journals make clear was a strong Christian, though he steadfastly refused to join a denomination and here his central subject is the central subject of the Christian gospel sin s guilt and forg Actually, I ve read this book twice, the first time when I was in high school Reading it again after some thirty years, I was amazed at the amount of meaning I d missed the first time Most modern readers don t realize and certainly aren t taught in school that Hawthorne as his fiction, essays and journals make clear was a strong Christian, though he steadfastly refused to join a denomination and here his central subject is the central subject of the Christian gospel sin s guilt and forgiveness Unlike many moderns, Hawthorne doesn t regard Hester s adultery as perfectly okay and excusable though he a...Modern society and a number of people seem somewhat confused about our ancestors On one hand, they re dumbass peasants who attached BYOW Bring Your Own Witch to their barbeque invitations On the other hand, they sometimes imbue them with super mystical intelligence, class and abilities whilst bemoaning how stupid and uncouth we have become in comparison.The Scarlet Letter allows us to judge that the reality was somewhere in between but mostly sitting on the side of pathological stupidity im Modern society and a number of people seem somewhat confused about our ancestors On one hand, they re dumbass peasants who attached BYOW Bring Your Own Witch to their barbeque invitations On the other hand, they sometimes imbue them with super mystical intelligence, class and abilities whilst bemoaning how stupid and uncouth we have become in comparison.The Scarlet Letter allows us to judge that the reality was somewhere in between but mostly sitting on the side of pathological stupidity image error And borderline sluttery, but we don t complain about that partThe Scarl...This was my third time reading The Scarlet Letter The first time was during my junior year of high school I actually enjoyed it, though literature of the nineteenth century was such a mystery to me then that I shied away from the creaky long words and felt proud of myself for succeeding in merely following the plot When I first read it to teach it last year, I was enraptured This year was the same Hawthorne has such an impressive command over language The eloquence of his language carries This was my third time reading The Scarlet Letter The first time was during my junior year of high school I actually enjoyed ...It s great to finally get back to the classics It s been far too long since I read a book with careful intensity, noting throwaway lines that are likely to show up on a multiple choice or short answer test that misses the main themes of a book entirely while managing to ask lots of questions like, In the fourth chapter, what kind of shoes was character you don t even remember wearing I was thinking maybe it would be nice to read a book like this without worrying about that stuff, just absor It s great to finally get back to the classics It s been far too long since I read a book with careful intensity, noting throwaway lines that are likely to show up on a multiple choice or short answer test that misses the main themes of a book entirely while managing to ask lots of questions like, In the fourth chapter, what kind of shoes was character you don t even remember wearing I was thinking maybe it would be nice to read a book like this without worrying about that stuff, just absorbing it for what it was and then moving on through my life drunk.Wrong Wrong, wrong, wrong.It s hard to know where to start with this thing.The prose itself is almost unreadable Let me give you an example of what a sentence in this book is like A man who was born in a small town, which bore no resemblance to the town his parents imagined for him when they settled in the area over 40 years ago with every intention of starting a small business selling gift baskets ...Book Review4 of 5 stars to The Scarlet Letter, a classic romantic period tale written in 1850, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Students are often required to read excerpts from this book, if not the whole book, during school I was one of those students, but then I read it again in college as part of my American Romanticism course during freshmen year But I also read it a third time prior to a movie being released, as I liked the actors in the movie, but wanted to be able to compare the literary woBook Review4 of 5 ...

The Scarlet Letter
  • English
  • 18 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 238 pages
  • 0142437263
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Scarlet Letter