The+Scarlet+Letter



//**The puritans thought Hester Prynne’s crime was unforgivable. She was convicted, imprisoned – and then forced to wear, forever, a public reminder of her sin - The Scarlet Letter. The Letter was unending punishment: it set Hester apart from society, it tormented her days and haunted her soul. **// //**But the Letter haunted others, as well. Its mystery turned Roger Chillingworth from a gentle healer into a man driven by revenge. Its meaning burned Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale’s heart, as deadly as cancer. And its power loomed over the life of Hester’s daughter, the uncontrollable child, Pearl. **// **//Four people would be destroyed by tangled web of guilt and secrets, unless one of them had the courage and love to reveal the truth of - The Scarlet Letter.// **

**(N. Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Aerie Books Ltd., 1987) **



**Author Presentation**

//**“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” **// //**“...happines **////**s is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release...” **//

**(Nathaniel Hawthorne)**

__**Life**__
 * **Born in 1809 in Salem, Massachusetts**
 * **Writer, editor, weighter and gauger**
 * **Wrote eight novels and over a dozen short-stories**
 * **Married Sophia Peabody - 3 children**
 * **Wrote //"The Scarlet Letter"//- American Bestseller**
 * **Suffered form pain in stomach**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**Died in his sleep in on May 19, 1864**

<span style="color: #c82d18; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">__**Books**__




 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**//The Scarlet Letter//**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**//The House of the Seven Gable//**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**//The Dolliver Romance//**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**//The Blithedale Romance//**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**//Septimius Felton or The Elixir of Life//**

<span style="background-color: #c82d18; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;">**Book Presentation**

<span style="color: #c82d18; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">__**The Plot**__


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Massachusetts Bay Colony – 17th century;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Hester Prynne is released from prison;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Her husband is thought to have been lost at** **sea;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**She has given birth to a child** **→** **Pearl;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**She doesn’t reveal her lover’s identity;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**The punishment for adultery** **→** **the scarlet** **letter “A” on Hester’s breast;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Hester’s lost husband visits her;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**He adopts a fake name - Roger Chillingworth -** **and befriends Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Chillingworth realizes that Rev. Dimmesdale is** **Pearl’s father;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Hester reveals Chillingworth’s true identity to** **Dimmesdale;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**They plan to leave Boston and go to England;**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Chillingworth finds out about their secret plan** **to leave**;
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Rev. Dimmesdale wants to hold a speech about** **his sinful nature**.

<span style="color: #c82d18; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">__**Major Characters**__

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 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Hester Prynne **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Arthur Dimmesdale **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Pearl **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Roger Chillingworth **

**<span style="color: #c82d18; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__Major Themes__ **

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 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Sin & Human Condition **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Past & Present **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Puritan Legalism **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Identity & Society **

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 * <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">**The Scarlet Letter**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">**The Meteor**

**<span style="color: #c82d18; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__Book Trailer__ **

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**<span style="background-color: #c82d18; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">QUIZ **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Who is Pearl's father? **
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Why does Hester wear the scarlet letter?[[image:to-read-or-not-to-read/Scarlet_letter.png align="right"]] **
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Why did Chillingworth hide his identity? **
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explain one symbol from the book. **
 * 5) **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">What is your opinion about Dimmesdale's refusal to confess his sin publicly? **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Maria:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">made the presentation about the plot, themes, symbols
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">searched for quotes in the book, chose movie scenes and the music for the trailer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">made the questions for the activity

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Alina:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">made the presentation about the author and the characters
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">chose movie scenes and the music for the trailer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">chose the quotes for the activity