ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Copyist, Wage Labour, Utopia
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Scarlet letter has not done its office, what does this mean. Office of the scarlet letter is socialization and compromise. She will become central to this new world. Hawthorn at the end: hester counselled thema new truth would be revealedangel. Idea of bridging the self and society and apostle of the coming revelationethereal medium of joy. Hester"s reinterpretation of the letter, why she resumed wearing the letter is not given. Hawthorn compells us to explain for ourseves and hester why she changes what she thinks of the letter. 7 years of law of ignonomy, hester considered the letter a scorching stigma. She has transformed from a divisive figure but an agent of cohension and continuity. Passing of john winthrop, continuity in the elections. Office of scarlet letter: tragic and romantic heroin, being compromised she faces it with uncomprimisign resistance. She makes compromise the work of culture itself.
