1. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The novel The Scarlet Letter, The Ministers Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown all unite upon this common thread. The opening scene of chapter 2 in The Scarlet Letter describes a gaggle of gossiping women viewing Hester Prynne's punishment. ... Midway into The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne writes "Would not the people start up in their seats, by a simultaneous impulse, and tear him down out of the pulpit which he defiled? ... Early on in The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne says "Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,-at her,...
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