On Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

I was joined by my friend Phocaean to discuss The Scarlet Letter. It is nice capstone for MCC’s Introduction to Literature course which features lectures on Ray Bradbury, Jack London, Harper Lee, William Golding, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen.

Phocaean and I have also discussed Nietzsche and Aristocratic Christianity

Finally, here is a classic essay on The Revolutionary Right from his substack.

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An outline of what we discussed:

1. Summary of the Plot

2. Hawthorne’s New Moral Interpretation / What Types of Humans are Promoted

3. Homeric Allusions

4. Custom / Nature / Wildness

5. Ignorance of the Narrator / Mystery and Non-Mystery of the Human Soul