Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle

Author:Alice Morse Earle [Earle, Alice Morse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General
ISBN: 9780804809597
Google: CVjZAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: C. E. Tuttle Company
Published: 1972-01-15T05:35:56+00:00

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VII

THE SCARLET LETTER

The rare genius of Hawthorne has immortalized in his Scarlet Letter one mode of stigmatizing punishment common in New England. So faithful is the presentment of colonial life shown in that book, so unerring the power and touch which drew the picture, it cannot be disputed that the atmosphere of the Scarlet Letter forms in the majority of hearts, nay, in the hearts and minds of all of our reading community, the daily life, the true life of the earliest colonists. To us the characters have lived—Hester Prynne is as real as Margaret Winthrop, Arthur Dimmesdale as John Cotton.

The glorified letter that stands out of the pages of that book had its faithful and painful prototype in real life in all the colonies; humbler in its fashioning, worn less nobly, endured more despairingly, it shone a scarlet brand on the breast of those real Hesters.

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