Aspects of The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804 and died in Plymouth, New Hampshire on May 19, 1864. A major figure in the rise of American literature, Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College in Main (1821-1824) with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future U.S. president Franklin Pierce. HawthorneÆs father was John Hathorne (he would add the ôwö to his surname as a young man), a sea captain who died of yellow fever when Hawthorne was four years old. His father was descended from John Hathorne, among the judges who presided over the Salem Witch Trials. Hawthorne was a bookish child who resided with his reclusive mother.Hawthorne wrote a significant number of short stories (which he called ôtalesö) and published them anonymously and under various pen names in magazines like The New England Magazine, The United States Democratic Review, and the Token. In 1837, Hawthorne began to use his real name with the publication of a number of these stories that focuses on New England Puritanism, called Twice-Told Tales. Hawthorne worked as a weigher and gauger for the Boston Custom House. The previous year, in 1839, he became engaged to illustrator and transcendentalist Sophia Peabody, to whom he would enjoy a long marriage and have three children: Una, Julian, and Rose. In 1841, Hawthorne joined Brook Farm, a utopian community experiment focused on transcendentalism. He and Sophia were married in 1842, though he became disil
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ate Pearl with Puritan values but has not the heart to punish her. Hester and others wonder if Pearl might be the child of the ôDevilö because of her wild nature and coal-black eyes.
Analysis: By remaining in Boston, we see HesterÆs quiet defiance against her accusers. We also see the early fascination of Pearl with the scarlet letter ôAö and her position as a symbol that reflects her motherÆs state. By distancing herself on the outskirts of town, however, we see HesterÆs longing to live somewhere she is free of rigid morals and codes of conduct.
Chapters 7 & 8
Summary: Hester and Pearl go to Governor BellinghamÆs home. Hester has embroidered a pair of find gloves for him, but she is also there to appeal to him to keep her child. Many in the town think Hester is an unfit mother because of committing adultery. While they wait to speak with the Governor, Pearl sees her motherÆs reflection in a shiny suit of armor but her mother becomes lost behind the scarlet letter ôAö which is magnified by the polished suit of armor. The Governor has been conversing with Reverend John Wilson and Reverend Roger Chillingworth in the garden. When they leave the garden they find encounter Pearl. They ask her who she is and she tells them
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Approximate Pages = 29 (250 words per page)
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