Book: The Scarlet Letter

[MarkA16]

This is a book we are reading by Nathaniel Hawthorne for Advanced American Literacy. It takes place in the Puritan times back in 1650s. Anyway, there are many passages I liked. What I want to know if it’s okay to accept these passages and quotes, even though it’s from a book?

“They fear to take up the shame that rightfully belongs to them. Their love for man, their zeal for God’s service - these holy impulses may or may not coexist in their hearts with the evil inmates to which their guilt has unbarred the door, and which must needs propagate a hellish breed within them. But if they seek to glorify God, let them not lift heavenward their unclean hands!..” (p.130)

This one was about how a reverend hides his secret of being a co-adulterer.

There are plenty more. What do you think? Anyone else read it?

 

[Karin]

This is a book we are reading by Nathaniel Hawthorne for Advanced American Literacy. It takes place in the Puritan times back in 1650s. Anyway, there are many passages I liked. What I want to know if it’s okay to accept these passages and quotes, even though it’s from a book?

“They fear to take up the shame that rightfully belongs to them. Their love for man, their zeal for God’s service - these holy impulses may or may not coexist in their hearts with the evil inmates to which their guilt has unbarred the door, and which must needs propagate a hellish breed within them. But if they seek to glorify God, let them not lift heavenward their unclean hands!..” (p.130)

This one was about how a reverend hides his secret of being a co-adulterer.

There are plenty more. What do you think? Anyone else read it?

Read it way back during my High schools days.
What do you mean is it ok to accept these quotes/passages?

 

[MarkA16]

I mean, I know that I don’t know much about my faith yet and I just thought that the book had a lot of good quotes. But because I don’t know a lot about Catholicism I don’t know if the quotes should be accepted by a Catholic since it was Puritan times.

 

[AquinaSavio]

I mean, I know that I don’t know much about my faith yet and I just thought that the book had a lot of good quotes. But because I don’t know a lot about Catholicism I don’t know if the quotes should be accepted by a Catholic since it was Puritan times.

I just finished this book two weeks ago. It does have a good moral. I’m writing an interpretive essay on how it demonstrates the human need for sacramental confession. However, he does refer to the penance that Mr. Dimmesdale inflicts upon himself as “practices more in accordance with the old, corrupted faith of Rome…” I don’t know if Mr. Hawthorne means this in a sarcastic way or not.