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Scarlet Letter: Reality vs Perception
Title: Scarlet Letter: Reality vs Perception
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 773 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Scarlet Letter: Reality vs Perception
Scarlet Letter: Reality vs Perception
Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption, centers around the small Puritan community of Boston during the seventeenth century. In the middle of the town market place is a " . . .weather darkened scaffold. . . (234)" where sinners are made to face the condemning public. The people standing on the scaffold experience strange phenomena while on the scaffold. Some become braver, some meeker. And whether the people are …showed first 75 words of 773 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 773 total…blindly guided by public perception hide themselves in lies and never confront the truth when it is presented. Even while the dying reverend confesses his sin on the scaffold, the townspeople deny " . . . his dying words acknowledged, nor even remotely implied . . . the slightest connection, on his part, with the guilt for which Hester Prynne [had committed] . . . (241)". Hawthornes point is clear: there are those who embrace the truth, and those who avoid it at all costs.
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