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Scarlet Letter and how it is Romantic
Title: Scarlet Letter and how it is Romantic
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1395 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Scarlet Letter and how it is Romantic
A reverend has sex with a married woman and denies the baby of his own for seven years. Sounds like a sitcom on FOX, but it is the plot of The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. If Hawthorne intended us to read this novel solely based on plot, he would not have written it. He is a romantic, believing in strong emotions that contradicted those of the rationalist views of thought and logic. The …showed first 75 words of 1395 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1395 total…with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle. Yet one tombstone served for both” (239). Society still recognizes Hester’s punishment by having space between them, but sharing their unison of love in the afterlife. The last line of the novel ends like this “ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES” (240). Similar to the lives of individuals, their “letters” glow on them even after their decease.
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