Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Brantley, Brenda (AFT) Wineapple, John Stephen Martin, Rita K. Gollin - Scarlet Letter: Signature Classics

Pros: Simply Intriguing

Cons: None...This Is A True Classic

The Bottom Line: This was an excellent American classic novel. I enjoyed this book very much. It's a true classic that will move you.

Review: Sin and Penance: that could be another title for this story, a story about the sin of love, and its penance. It is a compelling tale of the passion, pride, and moral struggle of two people, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, who in the midst of their...

Pros: The crisp writing of Hawthorne, the creation of Hester Prynne

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: Best book of its century- read it!

Review: The Scarlet Letter is a classic novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is the first great novel to deal with the topic of the double standard in adultery. Hawthorne surprises with the creation of the first adulterous heroine in American literature....

Pros: Very eloquently written, entertaining, points out some true ideas

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: Pointing out the detrimental hypocrisy in the puritan church, and using ornate symbolism to do so, this is a fantastic piece of writing.

Review: This is a college essay which I wrote for a literature class on the symbolism of the scarlet letter. Hope it helpsPearl in The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known for using clear symbolism in his writings to convey his point, and to accen ...

Pros: short in length

Cons: deals with a clergyman committing adultery

Review: Hyatt Waggoner, a noted Hawthorne scholar, says, "The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's most widely read and admired novel and is also the one that has inspired the most inconclusive debate . . ." (Waggoner 118). Much of the trouble in interpreting...

Pros: passionate story

Cons: plot doesn't explain everything

Review: This was one of the first books I ever read and it is an engrossing story of love, guilt, sin, and redemption in colonial New England. Introducing Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlett Letter... It is considered a classic, masterpiece of American literature...

Pros: Good Story, Characters and lots of symbolism.

Cons: Cumbersome language, Sometimes to much Symbolism.

Review: The Scarlet Letter deals with the time period surrounding the puritan culture in New England. Hawthorn himself was raised in a religious family that had many ties to the puritan way of life. For instance, his grandfather was Judge Hathorn who is...

Pros: gripping story; compelling characters

Cons: customs house introduction was tedious

Review: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" is truly a classic. Although the language seems a bit awkward and stilted by today's standards, the story is gripping and the characters compelling. The fate of Hester Prynne, doomed to wear a scarlet A...

Pros: Good Liturature

Cons: Too discriptive

Review: Almost 150 years after his death, author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s legacy still lives on. Although some high school students cringe when they hear the books title, “ The Scarlet Letter,” has proven the test of time.
Set in Puritan New England in...

Pros: Both works provide valuable insights into human society even today and should be read by everyone at that reading level

Cons: none

Review: The Scarlet Letter and “The Crucible” have served as extremely valuable insights into human nature, its denial and repression by societies’ laws and fears, and the consequences suffered by those who would challenge them by living through their hearts...

Pros: I can interpret great works of literature to serve my own whimsical purposes.

Cons: Those Puritans sometimes exhibited excessive leniency to the wayward. Scourge the wicked! Scourge ‘em hard!

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Review: I. Introduction (A Scadly Preamble) Those Puritans really knew how to get things done! Hangings, witch hunts, whippings, public shaming; man, those were the good old days! Who needs football or the World Wrestling Federation when there is such an ...