What would be lost if the last three paragraphs of the tale were omitted?
What will be an ideal response?
- Not only would an entire significant dimension of the tale be simply wiped away, its entire thematic emphasis, an understanding of Hawthorne’s likely intent, would essentially be reversed. Without the last three paragraphs, we would be presented with the events in the forest as incontrovertible fact, and those events would be a clear affirmation of the devil’s claims: that all appearances of human decency, kindness, and virtue are hollow pretenses and that human nature is profoundly corrupt and irredeemably depraved. We would still understand Hawthorne to be indicting the Puritan sensibility; the particulars of the indictment, however, would involve not the warped, joyless view of life that we associate with the Puritans, but rather an allconsuming hypocrisy.
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What will be an ideal response?
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Rewrite the following statements in the negative, using the cues in parentheses
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In the story as a whole, how do setting and plot reinforce each other?
What will be an ideal response?
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An assumption is an idea that the writer
a. proves. b. believes to be true. c. approaches logically. d. disagrees with.
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