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Chapter 1: “The Prison-Door” Additional Information. Year Published: 1850. Language: English. Country of Origin: United States of America. Source: Hawthorne, N. (1850). The Scarlet Letter. Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields. Readability: Flesch–Kincaid Level: 11.0. Word Count: 521. Genre: Tragedy.
Hawthorne compares Hester's scarlet letter with the mark on Cain's forehead. If you don't know about Cain's mark, you can read about it in the Bible in Genesis 4:1-16.
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Oct 22, 2009 · The scarlet letter. by. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Publication date. 1878. Topics. Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Illegitimate children, Women immigrants, Married women, Puritans, Adultery, Revenge, Clergy. Publisher. Boston, J.R. Osgood and company.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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THE SCARLET LETTER. I. THE PRISON DOOR. A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
