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The Scarlet Letter. : Nathaniel Hawthorne. Penguin, 2003 - Fiction - 238 pages. A dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel ...
Governor Bellingham. He is arguably the most powerful character in ‘ The Scarlet Letter, ’ who is rich, respected, and controls the government of Salem. Bellingham is a strict adherer to Puritanism and fervently abhors witchcraft and its practices – and would punish anyone who faulted on that front, even if they were his family member.
Hester, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ shows readers how she’s indeed a true protagonist of the book by taking responsibility for her sin of adultery and coming out clean and facing the consequences - while also humbling herself as she observes a humiliating public penance. Article written by Victor Onuorah.
1 de jun. de 1992 · The Scarlet Letter Note: There is an improved edition of this title, eBook #25344: Credits: Dartmouth College Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Adultery -- Fiction Subject: Historical fiction Subject: Revenge -- Fiction Subject: Psychological fiction Subject: Married women ...
Page 320 - The angel and apostle of the coining revelation must be a woman, indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful ; and wise, moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy ; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end I So said Hester Prynne, and glanced her sad eyes downward at the scarlet letter.
the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne. table of contents: editor's note. introduction: the custom-house. chapter i. the prison-door chapter ii. the market-place chapter iii. the recognition chapter iv. the interview chapter v. hester at her needle chapter vi. pearl chapter vii. the governor's hall chapter viii. the elf-child and the ...
This 1630s reality in New England, particularly across several Massachusetts colonies, becomes the basis for the zeitgeist portrayed in ‘ The Scarlet Letter ’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Salem, one of the colonies, is at its puritan heights when Hester Prynne falls short of the sin of adultery, one of the most deplorable moral crimes of the time.
