When I mentioned here that I had begun this book, I compared it to a cross between "The Scarlet Letter" (which it clearly takes as its inspiration) and "The Handmaid's Tale." Those comparisons held as I went deeper into the book as it examines many of the same themes: the shaming and repression of w...
I feel like The Scarlet Letter just kind of bounced off of me. I liked it, without ever really connecting to it. I often have strong opinions about, well, just about anything I read. In this case, not so much. (Although there have been other classics that I've felt at a loss to explain my reaction t...
I feel like the best way to understand another time and place, one that may be so foreign to us now, is through storytelling, through novels. Instantly I am transported somewhere else to observe a world so far removed from my own. It can be frustrating - a lot of the time I wanted to shake various c...
This is one of the most seminal works in American Literature, but what I loved in it when I first read it as best I can recall (as a teen? young adult?) was that for me Hester Prynne is a heroine with a capital A. I was puzzled when in my recent read of Ahab's Wife Hawthorne was depicted as, well, p...
The characters in The Scarlet Letter raise as much sympathy in me as do characters in a badly- filmed and overdramatic soap opera. Dimmesdale, the "hero" of the piece, is a spineless worm that deserves to be squashed. It is impossible to imagine this cringing, crawling invertebrate ever playing the ...
I listened to the audiobook (a production of LoudLit.com and I quite enjoyed it. I had read it a couple of years ago, but a (good) audiobook, like this one, gives just that extra dimension.
I was first introduced to this by my English teacher, who was (and still is) desperately trying to get me to love American Literature. Before someone has a go at me, I don't hate American Literature. I actually read a lot of it. It's more the typical, heavily American books that frustrate me, where ...
I was first introduced to this by my English teacher, who was (and still is) desperately trying to get me to love American Literature. Before someone has a go at me, I don't hate American Literature. I actually read a lot of it. It's more the typical, heavily American books that frustrate me, where ...
The Scarlet Letter was completely different from what I expected. Well, I actually don't know what I expected but not this. I enjoyed reading it immensely. It was a bit hard to get into (epsecially with the introduction) because of the old-fashioned language. But once I had gotten use to itI was hoo...
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