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hatred are like lead within my heart—but they, too, will fall away as I ascend. Oh, was there not, from the Srst, more poison in thy nature than in mine?” To Beatrice— so radically had her earthly part been wrought upon by Rap - paccini’s skill—as poison had been life, so the powerful antidote was death.
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1 Ιουν 1992 · The main character, Hester Prynne, finds herself at the center of a moral crisis after bearing an illegitimate child, a consequence for which she is publicly shamed and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' as a symbol of her shame.
Hawthorne begins The Scarlet Letter with a long introductory essay that generally functions as a preface but, more specifically, accomplishes four significant goals: outlines autobiographical information about the author, describes the conflict between the artistic impulse and the commercial
This long introductory story gives details of how Hawthorne came to write The Scarlet Letter. His interest stems from the fact that his family has a long-standing connection with the Salem district, and when Nathaniel comes to the Custom House in Salem, he uncovers artifacts that relate to the Puritans of Salem around the 1640’s.
When her missing spouse reappears and takes up residence in town under an assumed identity, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation between the truly moral and the merely religious.
His conclusions in The Scarlet Letter, as he examines. these two versions of the struggle between self and society, have a doubly gloomy thrust. On the one hand, he finds (and asserts with increasing vehemence in each succeeding novel) life in society to be the death of art, of love-of the heart.
