THE SCARLET LETTER-SETTING

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Scarlet Letter
Part II

• Script N. Hawthorne
• Editor M. McLaughlin
• Producer M. Hoffmeister

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THE SCARLET LETTER- THE CUSTOM HOUSE

• THE CUSTOM HOUSE
• Frame story
• Fiction within a fiction
• Serves to intro the scarlet letter and Hester
  Prynne

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SETTING

• Boston, 1642
• Grim
• Stern
• Joyless
• Somber
• Frontier
• Primitive
• Dark
• Repressive

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SETTING

• A. The Marketplace
• Public Space
• Church-religion/state
• Scaffold-law
• Prison-Puritan mind-set

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SETTING

• B. The Forest
• Private Space
• Dark
• Secret
• Individual
• Freedom
• Escape

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CHARACTER

• HESTER PRYNNE
• Commits adultery
• Wife of Roger Chillingworth (Prynne)
• Sinner/Heroine?
• Strong woman
• Individual

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CHARACTER

• ARTHUR DIMMESDALE
• Minister/saintly
• Hero
• Hypocrite
• Coward
• Weak
• Guilty
• Sinner

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CHARACTER

• ROGER CHILLINGWORTH
• Doctor/Scientist
• Cold-hearted
• Scholar
• Deformed
• Single-minded
• Fiend-like

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CHARACTER

• PEARL
• Treasure/pearl of great price
• Dressed in red/gold-elaborate decoration
• Unusual child
• Character as symbol (What does Pearl mean?)

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THEMES

• Law-nature
• Individual-society
• Sin-redemption
• Heart-head
• Public-private
• Woman-society/marriage

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SYMBOLS

• Colors-red, black, gold
• The letter A
• The rose
• The forest

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The End!