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23322279 No.23322279 [Reply] [Original]

Good read or "muh poor food" bullshit?

>> No.23322293

Foid*

>> No.23322299

>>23322279
It's great so long as you separate it from the reading schools typically give of it. It's not some early feminist story about a poor girl being ostracized for no good reason. Hawthorne clearly expresses that Prynne's punishment is justified. Pearl is used as a tool to directly chastise her and Dimmesdale for the sins they've committed. Just because the "antagonist" is also judged for his wrongdoings doesn't mean that the other two get a free pass. They're all sinners.

>> No.23322302

>>23322299
I haven't read this since high school and barely remember any of it. I remember it was very dense reading.

>> No.23322304

I liked Young Goodman Brown and read Hawthorne's biography for a book report and those were good. The Scarlet Letter in brief sounds like the most awful book ever written but knowing the author a little better, I suspect it might be good

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>>23322304
Sometimes I wish Hawthorne would've just been an essayist instead. Stuff like The Old Manse doesn't just rival, but surpasses Emerson. At times he reminds me of a sort of American Goethe. It's sad that most people nowadays only know him for The Scarlet Letter.

>> No.23322340

>>23322304
I like The Scarlet Letter a lot, but I think The House of the Seven Gables is his best long work.