The building's heavy oak door is studded with iron spikes, and the prison appears to have been constructed to hold dangerous criminals. No matter how optimistic ... The Scarlet Letter · Chapters 3–4 · Symbols

Next to the prison door stands a blooming wild rose bush. The narrator imagines that perhaps the rose bush grows in such an unlikely place to offer comfort to ...

It is June, and a throng of drably dressed Puritans stands before a weather-beaten wooden prison. In front of the prison stands an unsightly plot of weeds, and ...

25 мар. 2022 г. · The prison door is symbolic of punishment. It is “studded with iron spikes” and it appears to be so old that it never knew “a youthful era”, ...

It represents the struggles and follies of a new society, and the constraints against which its inhabitants were forced to strive. Create an account. Table of ...

A group of stern Puritans has gathered in front of the prison, waiting to see a public punishment. The ugliness of the scene is relieved only by the beauty of a ...

22 апр. 2024 г. · Chapter One: The Prison Door. Summary. A large crowd of Puritans stands outside of the prison, waiting for the door to open.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, first published in 1850, tells the story of Hester Prynne and her punishment after committing adultery in her Puritan ...

The prison door conveys an exceptional image of the Puritanical austerity of the law. Hawthorne describes the prison door in The Scarlet Letter as old, and ...

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest ...