"The Scarlet Letter becomes a kind of parable of lost human potential-the Artist [Hester], the Scientist, and the minister each wasting not only what they were, but what they might have been" (p275). ...

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Comparing Capote's works to that of Plato and Phaedrus, one author states: Baldanza describes their works as "parables on the nature of love", and adds, "They share with Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus in particular that curious tone of purely and absolutely spiritual love which grows out of a diffused and circumambient atmosphere of sexuality that never clearly manifests itself." ...

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