Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet LetterHarold Bloom Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007 - 209 páginas An allegorical tale of passion, adultery, guilt, and social repression, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter introduces readers to Hester Prynne, America's first fictional heroine. Hawthorne's story is a masterpiece of American fiction, and this updated volume from the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series explores how the author powerfully conveys its theme of the puritanical influence on societal attitudes. |
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... question generates the action . It is the question on everyone's lips , spoken and unspoken , from beginning to end . It is the question asked the moment Hester steps onto the scaffold in the public square . It is reformulated in ...
... question generates the action . It is the question on everyone's lips , spoken and unspoken , from beginning to end . It is the question asked the moment Hester steps onto the scaffold in the public square . It is reformulated in ...
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... question , Whose child is Pearl ? may be the one question that Hester , as mother , cannot ask . Hester knows , as only a mother can , beyond the shadow of a doubt , whose child Pearl is . Hester might well suffer considerable doubt ...
... question , Whose child is Pearl ? may be the one question that Hester , as mother , cannot ask . Hester knows , as only a mother can , beyond the shadow of a doubt , whose child Pearl is . Hester might well suffer considerable doubt ...
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... question , Whose child is Pearl ? reproduces the child's own question , Who is my father ? It can stand , therefore , for the basic inquiry into self - identity ; and hence it can serve as Hawthorne's own question , Who am I ? There is ...
... question , Whose child is Pearl ? reproduces the child's own question , Who is my father ? It can stand , therefore , for the basic inquiry into self - identity ; and hence it can serve as Hawthorne's own question , Who am I ? There is ...
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The APolitics of Ambiguity | 35 |
Hesters Skepticism Hawthornes Faith | 83 |
Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class | 109 |
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