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In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband - long thought to be lost at sea - has returned to Boston under the assumed name 'Roger Chillingworth' and plots to uncover her lover's identity. After her daughter Pearl is born, Hester is frequently visited by both Reverend Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, but always refuses to name her lover. As the years wear on and Pearl grows older, Hester's defiance - and her lover's silence - weighs heavily on the lives of all parties involved.… (lisätietoja)
I have only read the two stories, not the critical esssays, I'm keeping those for class :) The Scarlet Letter was beautifully written, and I loved the irony and the pointing out of the hyphocricy of most of the characters. There were some things that made it very obvious it was written quite a while ago, and that made it all the more interesting. And the whole story was very believable, too, that a woman who had a child while her husband had not been with her for the past two years were to be punished, first by a jail sentence, then to stand by the scaffold with her baby, and having to wear the scarlet letter A on her breast for the rest of her days didn't even seem to be too much.
It is kind of scary that some people who left Europe for America did so in order to avoid prosecution for their religious beliefs, however, some of those puritans must have been a lot worse than those religious zealots cleaing up in Europe? And throughout the whole book, I had one phrase stuck in my mind : the one who has never sinned should cast the first stone. ( )
I came to this book with preconceived notions of it because there is so much talk of it in the literary and movie world, but I was actually surprised by its subtlety, the intensity of the minister's struggle, the commentary on who is inside/outside society, and the strength and depth of these characters. The minister's story stood out to me the most, I think. Hawthorne has drawn a very serious man, devoted to his faith and his work to share it with others. He is constantly striving to do good, but sadly, his soul is constantly being battered by guilt and feelings of hypocrisy after doing something that goes against everything he believes. It is heartwrenchingly plain that he does not fully believe the Truth and Beauty of the salvation he preaches. Through the whole narrative, he is weighted down with guilt instead of having his guilty conscience sprinkled with the cleansing blood of Christ and experiencing freedom in the precious and glorious gift of God's forgiveness and mercy. ( )
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, born Nathaniel Hathorne, Jr., was the son of Elizabeth Manning Hathorne of Salem Massachusetts, and a man he hardly ever saw: Nathaniel Hathorne, also of Salem. --Introduction
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
It bore a device, a herald's wording of which might serve for a motto and brief description of our now concluded legend; so sombre is it, and relieved only by one ever-glowing point of light gloomier than the shadow:—
In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband - long thought to be lost at sea - has returned to Boston under the assumed name 'Roger Chillingworth' and plots to uncover her lover's identity. After her daughter Pearl is born, Hester is frequently visited by both Reverend Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, but always refuses to name her lover. As the years wear on and Pearl grows older, Hester's defiance - and her lover's silence - weighs heavily on the lives of all parties involved.
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It is kind of scary that some people who left Europe for America did so in order to avoid prosecution for their religious beliefs, however, some of those puritans must have been a lot worse than those religious zealots cleaing up in Europe? And throughout the whole book, I had one phrase stuck in my mind : the one who has never sinned should cast the first stone. (