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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Though written in the 1850s, 'The Scarlet Letter' is a story fit for our modern times, with its exploration of female independence in a restrictive society where the concept of sin is used as a repressive instrument of control, particularly of women. A clear inspiration for Margaret Atwood's dystopian powerhouse, 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Hawthorne artfully highlights the hypocricy of Hester Prynne's humiliation, and charts her struggle to assert her...
Author
Series
Library of living philosophers volume 7
Publisher
Open Court
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
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