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Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
A classic American novel of sin, guilt, and redemption set in Puritan New England, following Hester Prynne and her scarlet letter. Hawthorne's introspective narrative explores themes of moral transgression and the human heart.
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Public shame brands the body and soul, forcing sin's hidden weight to either consume or redeem those who carry it.
shame
The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in the platform of the pillory, holding the human head up to the public gaze.
SLN-RC-050'It is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure his agony, as well as mine!'
SLN-RC-060Her mind kept bringing up other scenes, other faces — reminiscences most trifling, as the whole scene of her ignominy glimmered indistinctly before her eyes.
SLN-RC-052religion-and-sex
The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek — bidden to speak to that mystery of a woman's soul, so sacred even in its pollution.
SLN-RC-059self-and-identity
She bore on her breast the curiously embroidered letter, a specimen of her delicate and imaginative skill — almost the only art within a woman's grasp.
SLN-RC-070Her own dress was of the coarsest materials, with only that one ornament — the scarlet letter — which it was her doom to wear.
SLN-RC-072Illuminates
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