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H25 -
The Scarlet Letter

Have you long considered Hester Prynne a heroine and Arthur Dimmesdale a hypocrite? Are you confident that Puritans are repressed? That by the 19th century America was independent of Europe? That clothes don't make the man? Have you considered the difference between a minister and a physician? Between shame and guilt? Between theory and thought? between gossip and folklore? What are the drawbacks of single parenting? How are children best educated, anyway? Where does art's power come from and where does imagination do the most good? Are women meaner than men? Is friendship always sexual? What can repression teach us? Why should we love our boring jobs? Why should we laugh at our elders and discipline our kids? If any of these questions give you pause, it's time to reread The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's unpredictable story of mature persons coming to mature conclusions. All you need for this two day seminar is a readiness to real Hawthorne's classic with fresh eyes.

Scholar:

Elisa New

Location:

Harvard Hillel

Dates:

3/10/2011, 3/17/2011

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H25 -	The Scarlet Letter

	Have you long considered Hester Prynne a heroine and Arthur Dimmesdale a hypocrite? Are you confident that Puritans are repressed? That by the 19th century America was independent of Europe? That clothes don't make the man? Have you considered the difference between a minister and a physician? Between shame and guilt? Between theory and thought? between gossip and folklore? What are the drawbacks of single parenting? How are children best educated, anyway? Where does art's power come from and where does imagination do the most good? Are women meaner than men? Is friendship always sexual? What can repression teach us? Why should we love our boring jobs? Why should we laugh at our elders and discipline our kids? If any of these questions give you pause, it's time to reread The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's unpredictable story of mature persons coming to mature conclusions. All you need for this two day seminar is a readiness to real Hawthorne's classic with fresh eyes.

		Scholar:	Elisa New
		Location:	Harvard Hillel
		Dates:	3/10/2011, 3/17/2011