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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Sep 29, 2012
Pros: Descriptive, great character study
Cons: Overwrought melodrama, Hawthorne does go on and on and on
Summary: When I first read this book, I found it opaque and interminably long. I was in junior high. More recently, I decided on a whim to read this bane of high school sophomores once again and see if with my jaded eyes could finally understand its merits. I ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 3, 2012
Pros: Great story line, full of plot twist, unexpected endings, great characters
Cons: The language Can be difficult in this book
Summary: This book was good. I loved the story line and the ending was not what you would expect. The story line is full of plot twist. It keeps it fun and intresting. You can easily keep up with it if you have a short attention span, like me. Also you will love ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 28, 2006
Pros: Characterization. Themes. Symbols. Motifs.
Cons: Stasis.
Summary: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is one of the earliest and most important American novels, apposite even today. Published in 1859, around 200 years after its subject, Hawthorne narrates a story about a forsaken woman in Puritan Salem, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 4, 2004
Pros: Great romantic novel
Cons: Not much action
Summary: The Scarlet Letter , which was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is regarded as something different than a novel to Hawthorne. He considers The Scarlet Letter to be a romance, which is a prose narrative treating imaginary characters involved in events ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 21, 2003
Pros: nothing to me
Cons: everything to me
Summary: When I first began reading the Scarlet Letter, I had a feeling that this famous novel may actually mean something to me, illustrate something important to me: the consequences of sin. Instead, I read the most boring book I have ever read in my entire ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 10, 2003
Pros: Very eloquently written, entertaining, points out some true ideas
Cons: none
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 27, 2003
Pros: Good detail. Shows us how we are almost like this even today.
Cons: The intro was way too long. The words were a little complicated.
Summary: The Scarlet Letter a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne it is about a woman, Hester Prynne that commits adultery and has an illegitimate child. To be punished for this act she had to wear a scarlet letter "A." So she escapes the death penalty by wearing the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 24, 2003
Pros: This book is enriched with mischif and envy.
Cons: At some points the outcome was rather predictable.
Summary: In the story the Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that took place in Boston, 1642, the author uses the scaffold as a unifying device. A scaffold was a high platform of public punishment early in Puritan Boston. Simple crimes like being a ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 17, 2002
Pros: The crisp writing of Hawthorne, the creation of Hester Prynne
Cons: none
Summary: 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. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 9, 2002
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!
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 20, 2001
Pros: Many Lessons to be learned
Cons: MAJOR Dead Spots
Summary: All of the main characters in Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter were in some way excluded from their community. Hester Prynne, Pearl, Roger Chillingworth, and Reverend Dimmesdale, were isolated from the town in which they lived. Each character was ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 29, 2001
Pros: intriguing moral questions
Cons: stifling writing style
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The Scarlet Letter, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, forces readers to consider the consequences of the moral misconduct of Hester Prynne and the resulting reactions of Puritan society. The court penalizes Ms. Prynne for committing ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 21, 2001
Pros: Simply Intriguing
Cons: None...This Is A True Classic
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 16, 2001
Pros: Provides insight into Puritan customs and society
Cons: Dull, boring, and hard to understand
Summary: This book has long been praised as being a true American classic and a fine example of literature. Hearing so many people rave about how good it was, I decided to give it a try and was quite surprised at what I found.
Firstly, Hawthorne ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 31, 2000
Pros: Good Story, Characters and lots of symbolism.
Cons: Cumbersome language, Sometimes to much Symbolism.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 18, 2000
Pros: i only had to read it once
Cons: i had to read it at all
Summary: Give me a break. The Scarlet Letter was a story that was purely about a man that was to horny for his own good and then got a married woman pregnant and didn't have the balls to take responcibility for his actions.
any man that has the nerve ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 18, 2000
Pros: Very well written
Cons: to descriptive
Summary: The Many Faces of the Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter was a book by Nathaniel Hathworne written in the 17th century. This novel was about a brave and serene woman who stood up for her self in the oppressing puritan era. Hester Pryne committed ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 27, 2000
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Summary: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne focuses on an adulteress, her child, her lover, and her former husband. It deals with the issues of sin, punishment, and guilt. It is full of symbolism and irony. It is one of the first great American novels. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 27, 2000
Pros: Good Liturature
Cons: Too discriptive
Summary: Almost 150 years after his death, author Nathaniel Hawthornes 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 27, 2000
Pros: intricate and enticing plot
Cons: drawn out at points
Summary: In The Scarlet Letter, the three scaffold scenes exemplify the basic structure of the novel. Each scene progresses the action of the story. The first scene introduces the major characters. The second scene reveals their secrets. The third scene ... read more
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