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Choose one of the prompts below to respond to in an essay. You must have a clear and focused thesis statement, and you must also quote the novel at least three times (additional references in the form of paraphrases are also necessary).
Rubric:
- Introduction paragraph includes the name of the novel, the author, and a one sentence brief summary of the novel.
- The thesis makes an arguable claim about the text and body paragraphs support the claim with specific paraphrases or quotations from the text (textual support).
- Analysis focuses on a key element or character in a work of literature and examines how the author has developed that element or character.
- Essay body is a minimum of 750 words
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The Scarlet Letter
Have you ever seen a novel destroy its own Happily Ever After time after time?
The Scarlet Letter is a masterpiece, but not only because of its literary value, but because of
its way to crawl in a deep pit of anguish and every time it climbs a little and start to see the
light of happiness, the story takes a turn to a situation as distressing and sorrowful as the
previous one.
Nathaniel Hawthorne debuted in the literary field with this novel in 1850. In the
preface, the author identifies himself as a descendant of the same old Puritans that had
condemned their neighbors in the witch trials and were guilty of the persecution of Quaker
women, the same old Puritans that lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony two centuries before.
The action takes place in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, between the
years of 1642 and 1649, when religion had the force of law. Sins were crimes against the
peace of the King. When a young woman defied the establishment and not only lived by
herself, but had an affair while her husband is not in town and presumed dead, borne a
child, product of that illicit love, and refuses to say who the father is, the very foundation of
the society was shaken and cracked.
Hester Prynne is in jail, He is an adulteress and has a fatherless baby. She has not
only sinned against the sanctity of marriage, but she dared to refuse to name the father of
her daughter. Condemned to wear a big red A on her bodice she still kept silent. “On the
breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic
flo...