Comments on: The Scarlet Letter Lecture http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/ Storytelling, Writing, People, and Education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:56:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Cheri http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-3505 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:56:34 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-3505 This is a thought that is new to me. Honestly, in all those years of The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown, The Birthmark, Rappaccini’s Daughter and The Minister’s Black Veil, I never considered Hawthorne’s intention anything other than a stern and cynical look at the rules.

Wow.

]]> By: wkkortas http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-3504 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:21:38 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-3504 I have often wondered…is it possible Hawthorne was just kidding? I think you can read “Rappaccini’s Daughter” or “The Minister’s Black Veil” as black comedy. I wouldn’t go far as to write a thesis on it or anything, but a part of me suspects Hawthorne wrote with his tongue squarely in his cheek.

]]> By: lichanos http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-1995 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:59:23 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-1995 I guess you know the story of Socrates and the slave? The one in which he leads the slave boy on with his questions to show that the boy already knows geometry because he, like all of us, was born with certain innate knowledge?

Sooo…maybe your student…?

]]> By: Richard Manchester http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-1880 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:44:57 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-1880 I’m really sorry, Cheri, I told him not to worry you. Come on Toe. Everything’s OK over at HB. The nasty man’s going now. You forgot your tablets. That’s better. Bye for now Cheri.

]]> By: Foreign Toe http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-1879 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:57:25 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-1879 Yep

]]> By: Cheri http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-1874 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:01:13 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-1874 Struggling with big issues is an internal revolution, don’t you think?

]]> By: Foreign Toe http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-1871 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:27:45 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-1871 If I were better
I’d read the-”Scarlet Letter”
Come the Revolution.

Victorian C of E
Made no-one flee.
Come the Revolution!

Some even let in
Old Charlie Darwin.
Come the Revolution!

No thought
Of this sort
Come the Revolution.

]]> By: Cheri http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-1065 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:09:12 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-1065 Writing is a painful way to release pain without the cost of a therapist (who are usually dealing with their own pain…_

You can be brave, Glorybelle!

]]> By: Cheri http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-1064 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:07:23 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-1064 The dynamic is alive and sick and makes for a lovely reason for a smart woman to attend an all girls’ school.

Looking forward to your thoughts as you read The Scarlet Letter.

]]> By: Cheri http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-scarlet-letter-lecture/#comment-1063 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:03:34 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=561#comment-1063 Most people I teach are the Puritan/Athenian model, as you call it.

Wish I could go back and teach the novel using Socrates, but my public school days are over.

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