I read the 'Marble Faun' first, and then the 'Scarlet Letter,' and then the 'House of Seven Gables,' and then the 'Blithedale Romance;' but I always liked best the last, which is more nearly a novel, and more realistic than the others.
'Scarlet Letter.' But none of Hawthorne's fables are without a profound and distant reach into the recesses of nature and of being.
My eyes fastened themselves upon the old scarlet letter, and would not be turned aside.
In the absorbing contemplation of the scarlet letter, I had hitherto neglected to examine a small roll of dingy paper, around which it had been twisted.
So little adapted is the atmosphere of a Custom-house to the delicate harvest of fancy and sensibility, that, had I remained there through ten Presidencies yet to come, I doubt whether the tale of "The Scarlet Letter" would ever have been brought before the public eye.
Altschuler sketches a very useful guide to the ways in which the interdisciplinary field of disability studies can open up new readings of The
Scarlet Letter and renew our approach to how language and signification work in the romance.
Hawthorne through his sombre and carefully arranged prose examines the phenomenon of sin inherent in the mysterious yet beautiful world of human beings in The
Scarlet Letter. The
Scarlet Letter is a nineteenth century romantic narrative.
The New
Scarlet Letter? adds to the literature on incarceration and employment at a time when criminal justice policy is enjoying political attention.
Only the
scarlet letter Hester wears is shown in red, which is both captivating and disappointing since seeing the entire work in color would have been very impactful.
Roughly a million Texans with government-subsidized health coverage could see a new label on their health insurance cards, and critics say the designation is akin to a "
scarlet letter."
"With its famous emphasis on the problem of interpretation, The
Scarlet Letter has often been seen, for better or worse, as a romantic and aestheticist attempt to transcend--or, depending on one's position, escape from--the immediate, material, and political issues of its time.
scarlet letter - the letter A in red; Puritans required adulterers to wear it