jeudi 28 janvier 2016

The Scarlet Letter or Moby-Dick: which is the better American masterpiece?

I've been reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (two more chapters before I'm finished). I love it very much. I'm a high school senior and contrary to a lot of people I love it deeply. I love its stately and lofty language, its positively medieval story, its thematic richness and ambiguity and ambivalence, the depth of Hester and of the characters, and the deep allegory (it's obvious to
The Scarlet Letter or Moby-Dick: which is the better American masterpiece?

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