Claire Velazquez’s Reviews > The Scarlet Letter > Status Update

Shame is so interesting. Some say it works, others say it doesn’t. I’m not sure where I stand on the argument, but, I think it’s a bit ridiculous to have to wear a red ‘A’ on your chest for the rest of your life on top of having to stand on a pillory for all of the town to see.

And another thing… Hawthorne brings up the idea that if a papist were in the crowd where Hester was demonstrated, they’d liken it to the “sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world.” As a ‘papist’ myself, that’s what I immediately thought of.

I am so glad I wasn’t born in puritanical New England

I said I was going to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and I lied lmao