English 2308E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Funhouse, Born Sinner
4 Oct 2016
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Helps us think about law and power. She is the product of a sin. Suggests that she absorbed hester"s negative energy and is somewhat poisoned by that. Also, suggests that it"s society"s shunning and treatment of her that turned her into the child she is. A live representation of the scarlet letter. She"s able to see the limits of puritan society. There is often an unstable narrative perspective of pearl. Certain amount of violence built into the puritan society. Echoes what was said of the prison house and scaffold at the beginning. List of people who have been punished. Symbols of power and violence in the built environment. Suit of armour; the a reflects large in it as in a funhouse mirror. Symbol that the scarlet letter is all that they see of her in that house. She"s creating the symbols that are keeping him in power.
