The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings PDF Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The reader never learns when or how the crime is exposed, the event that presumably initiates Hester’s confinement in prison, because Hawthorne makes the punishment the novel’s opening scene, before the reader knows the nature of the crime. But the community inflicts a punishment even more devastating to Hester than the official sentence of humiliation and exposure: Her expulsion from human society drives Hester to lawless and nihilistic reveries, and Pearl to sociopathic defiance.

From the novel’s beginning, however, individuals in the community show the compassion that is absent from the magistrates’ sentence. While gathered to witness Hester’s exposure, five matrons, well fed on “the beef and ale of their native [England], with a moral diet not a whit more refined,” expound on the appropriate punishment for Hester. Four of the matrons agree that Hester’s official sentence is too lenient, and advocate branding her wi

• Book Name: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings pdf
• Author Name Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 1900

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