The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Darn, now I really do have to go and reread it.
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Okay, now that's out of the way... I actually never had to read this one for a school assignment. I just... really love literature... A lot... What else have you read, ConorEngelb?
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Um...lots of stuff? I've read the following for school and university:Nathrad Sheare wrote:The Scarlet Letter is my favorite novel. Period.
Okay, now that's out of the way... I actually never had to read this one for a school assignment. I just... really love literature... A lot... What else have you read, ConorEngelb?
- The Great Gatsby
The Kite Runner
The Native Commissioner
Disgrace
Death of a Salesman
A Raisin in the Sun
Great Expectations
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
On Beauty
Lord of the Flies
and a bunch of other stuff
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What was your favorite part in The Scarlet Letter? One of my favorite passages was the one wherein Arthur and Hester meet in the woods by the brook and she throws the letter off her chest into a bush nearby when taken by Arthur's words on escape and love, only, of course, to retrieve it not a few minutes later when reality sets in. I love the elegance of the style Hawthorne chose for this particular novel. It definitely is detailed and really makes a reader fume over the treatment the Puritans dished a transgressor, especially considering it's not a human's place to judge another human for anything. Actually the entire history of the Puritans is... disturbing... I'm not really sure why so many people believe history was at all romantic. So far as I see, it was bloody and dirty and in all other ways morbid, but people had nicer clothes...
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I haven't tried that Dickens, actually. I may do exactly that, though, once I get a chance.Nathrad Sheare wrote:Ever tried Charles Dickens' A Child's History of England? It's a great book, if a little dry here and there (Let's face it, royalty wasn't all that exciting most of the time). Dickens uses a lot of his wit and skill at storytelling to show us the places and people involved in England's royal chaos. I couldn't put it down when I first got it. I was glued to it for over an hour.
What was your favorite part in The Scarlet Letter? One of my favorite passages was the one wherein Arthur and Hester meet in the woods by the brook and she throws the letter off her chest into a bush nearby when taken by Arthur's words on escape and love, only, of course, to retrieve it not a few minutes later when reality sets in. I love the elegance of the style Hawthorne chose for this particular novel. It definitely is detailed and really makes a reader fume over the treatment the Puritans dished a transgressor, especially considering it's not a human's place to judge another human for anything. Actually the entire history of the Puritans is... disturbing... I'm not really sure why so many people believe history was at all romantic. So far as I see, it was bloody and dirty and in all other ways morbid, but people had nicer clothes...
Oh gosh, I can't remember much of The Scarlet Letter. I rather liked the beginning, and the quote about the Puritans' stony visages or something like that.
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