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Melony Gallant Love in a Letter

Love in a Letter

Fiction
English
18249 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Would a segment about finding your missing twin lead you on a journey to find a missing memory? [more]

Keywords: love letter, love, letters, romance, spiritual

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Anna Harris Letter To Arlington

Annie Takes A Letter

Literary Collections
English
772 Words
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Annie goes to Arlington to take a letter to Bobby.

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Sally Spratt A Single Letter

Fiction
English
1370 Words
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Hank has been in love with Angela his entire life, too afraid to speak to her - he [more]

Keywords: Postman, letter, love

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Revised Edition by D.S. Vecchio The Scarlet Letter

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction
English
85441 Words
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The Scarlet Letter (1850) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a work of romantic fiction in a historical setting. It is considered to be the author’s masterpiece and his most famous work. The philosophical and psychological depth of the universal themes the book explores has made it a contemporary classic. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne delves into the timeless and convoluted themes of crime and punishment; religion and law; and sin and guilt. BookRix: herodotus [more]

Keywords: the scarlet letter, hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, nathaniel hawthorne, hawthorne's the scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

Fiction
English
82877 Words
Ages 8 and up
270
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The Scarlet Letter is a romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus.Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. The experience of Hester and Dimmesdale recalls the story of Adam and Eve because, in both cases, sin results in expulsion and suffering. But it also results in knowledge – specifically, in knowledge of what it means to be immoral. For Hester, the Scarlet Letter is a physical manifestation of her sin and reminder of her painful solitude. She contemplates casting it off to obtain her freedom from an oppressive society and a checkered past as well as the absence of God. Because the society excludes her, she considers the possibility that many of the traditions held up by the Puritan culture are untrue and are not designed to bring her happiness. As for Dimmesdale, the "cheating minister", his sin gives him "sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind, so that his chest vibrate[s] in unison with theirs." His eloquent and powerful sermons derive from this sense of empathy. The narrative of the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is quite in keeping with the oldest and most fully authorized principles in Christian thought. His "Fall" is a descent from apparent grace to his own damnation; he appears to begin in purity but he ends in corruption. The subtlety is that the minister's belief is his own cheating, convincing himself at every stage of his spiritual pilgrimage that he is saved. The rose bush, its beauty a striking contrast to all that surrounds it – as later the beautifully embroidered scarlet "A" will be held out in part as an invitation to find "some sweet moral blossom" in the ensuing, tragic tale and in part as an image that "the deep heart of nature" (perhaps God) may look more kind on the errant Hester and her child than her Puritan neighbors do. Throughout the work, the nature images contrast with the stark darkness of the Puritans and their systems. [more]

Keywords: the scralet letter, nathaniel hawthorne, american literature, american history, puritainism, colonialism, morality

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