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Table of Contents FROM THE PAGES OF THE SCARLET LETTER She took the baby - photo 1

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FROM THE PAGES OF

THE SCARLET LETTER

She took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

(page 46)

It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.

(page 46)

Up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain. The world had been so cheerless! My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

(page 63)

There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

(page 67)

Her matronly fame was trodden under all mens feet. Infamy was babbling around her in the public market-place. For her kindred, should the tidings ever reach them, and for the companions of her unspotted life, there remained nothing but the contagion of her dishonor; which would not fail to be distributed in strict accordance and proportion with the intimacy and sacredness of their previous relationship.

(page 98)

And now, through the chamber which these spectral thoughts had made so ghastly, glided Hester Prynne, leading along little Pearl, in her scarlet garb, and pointing her forefinger, first, at the scarlet letter on her bosom, and then at the clergymans own breast.

(page 121)

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

(page 144)

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

(page 146)

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones,and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

(page 165)

All this time, Roger Chillingworth was looking at the minister with the grave and intent regard of a physician towards his patient. But, in spite of this outward show, the latter was almost convinced of the old mans knowledge, or, at least, his confident suspicion, with respect to his own interview with Hester Prynne. The physician knew, then, that, in the ministers regard, he was no longer a trusted friend, but his bitterest enemy.

(page 184)

At some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heavens own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

(page 215)

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Nathaniel Hathorne Jr was born into an established New - photo 2

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Nathaniel Hathorne, Jr., was born into an established New England Puritan family on Independence Day, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. After the sudden death of his father, he and his mother and sisters moved in with his mothers family in Salem. Nathaniels early education was informal; he was home-schooled by tutors until he enrolled in Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Uninterested in conventional professions such as law, medicine, or the ministry, Nathaniel chose instead to rely for support upon my pen. After graduation, he returned to his hometown, wrote short stories and sketches, and changed the spelling of his surname to Hawthorne. Hawthornes coterie consisted of transcendentalist thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Although he did not subscribe entirely to the groups philosophy, he lived for six months at Brook Farm, a cooperative living community the transcendentalists established in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

On July 9, 1842, Hawthorne married a follower of Emerson, Sophia Peabody, with whom he had a daughter, Una, and a son, Julian. The couple purchased a mansion in Concord, Massachusetts, that previously had been occupied by author Louisa May Alcott. Frequently in financial difficulty, Hawthorne worked at the custom houses in Salem and Boston to support his family and his writing. His peaceful life was interrupted when his college friend, Franklin Pierce, now president of the United States, appointed him U.S. consul at Liverpool, England, where he served for four years.

Herman Melville had an early appreciation for the work of Hawthorne, but he did not gain wide public recognition until after his death. Early in his career, Hawthorne attempted to destroy all copies of his first novel, Fanshawe (1828), which he had published at his own expense. During this period he also contributed articles and short stories to periodicals, several of which were published in his first collection, Twice-Told Tales (1837). Although his works met with little financial success, Hawthorne is credited, along with Edgar Allan Poe, with establishing the American short story.

The publication of The Scarlet Letter in 1850 changed the way society viewed Puritanism. Considered his masterpiece, the novel focuses on Hawthornes recurrent themes of sin, guilt, and punishment. Some critics have attributed his sense of guilt to his ancestors connection with the persecution of Quakers in seventeenth-century New England and their prominent role in the Salem witchcraft trials in the 1690s.

On May 19, 1864, Hawthorne died in Plymouth, New Hampshire, leaving behind several unfinished novels that were published posthumously. He is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

THE WORLD OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND THE SCARLET LETTER

1801	Nathaniel Hawthornes parents, Nathaniel Hathorne, a mariner, and Elizabeth Clarke Manning of Salem, are married on August 2.
1802	Nathaniel and Elizabeths first child, Elizabeth, is born.
1804	Nathaniel Hathorne, Jr., is born on July 4 in Salem.
1808	On January 9, Nathaniels sister, Maria Louisa, is born. His father dies of yellow fever in Surinam.
1809	Nathaniel and his mother and sisters move in with his mothers family in Salem.
1813	Following a foot injury that requires crutches for the next two years, Nathaniel is home-schooled by Joseph Worcester, who later becomes a well-known lexicographer and rival of Noah Webster.
1821- 1825	Nathaniel attends Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He establishes lifelong friendships with future U.S. president Franklin Pierce and writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. After graduation, he returns to Salem to live with his family for the next twelve years.
1830	Nathaniels earliest stories, among them The Hollow of the Three Hills and Sir William Phips, are published anonymously in magazines. After 1830 he changes the spelling of his surname to include a w.
1836	Ralph Waldo Emersons groundbreaking essay Nature is published, heralding the blooming of the Transcendentalist movement in New England over the next few decades.

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