English 2308E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hester Prynne, The Custom House, Custom House

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Positive evaluation of what american society can become. If self-interest properly understood and used can be great agent for change in bringing americans together. He sees himself as a victim of patronage same as hester"s presentation in the text, those who see her as tyrannous. Custom house preface actually sets up the novel shouldn"t be cut out like in. Ma writing fiction at the time basically someone who seems unproductive. A victim of prosecution and through writing the scarlet letter, a recorder of prosecution (his own and hester"s) Pepe clerk presents formal ploy that gets narrative going works custom house and digs up the letters gives them to hawthorne who puts hester"s symbol over his chest brings them together. Brought together deliberately suggesting forces hester had to deal with are some versions what he has to deal with critique of puritans. Shows the novel is not just simply a.

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