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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thought provoking lines -
"The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it" (58). Note - I'm very curious what Hawthorne would think of American television these days...
"But 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, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it" (82-83).
I first read this book in high school and hated it. I was a very self-righteous teen and felt no sympathy for any of the characters. I'm glad I reread the book as an adult because I can now see why it's a classic. The writing is beautiful. I still don't care for the story, especially the ending.
"The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it" (58). Note - I'm very curious what Hawthorne would think of American television these days...
"But 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, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it" (82-83).
I first read this book in high school and hated it. I was a very self-righteous teen and felt no sympathy for any of the characters. I'm glad I reread the book as an adult because I can now see why it's a classic. The writing is beautiful. I still don't care for the story, especially the ending.