The Scarlet Letter: Chapter By Chapter Review And Analysis
Beginning of paper
CHAPTER 1- The Prison-Door-
I found this one page introductory chapter to be very dramatic as
it explained the history of the colony by telling the history of the
prison-door. From the looks of this chapter, this story will probably be
dragged out as much as possible.
At first I thought the way ....
Middle of paper
.... she is scorned by the crowd.
Her punishment is quote “as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good
citizenship as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France,”
(Page 52, pink highlight). Instead of using the pillory, which would lock
a person's head and hands together where they could not move and be forced
to not be able to show their humiliation. “No outrage more flagrant to
forbid the culprit to hide his face from shame,” is in Hawthorne's
commentary on page 53.
Ha ....
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Word count: 4496
Page count: 17 (approximately 250 words per page)
