How you explore The Scarlet Letter on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 8 characters, 13 places, 12 objects and 7 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 41 passages of The Scarlet Letter sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Nathaniel Hawthorne instead.
The Scarlet Letter feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of The Scarlet Letter
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Hester on the Scaffold
- Chillingworth Enters as Physician
- Hester and Pearl on the Margin
- Chillingworth's Predation and Dimmesdale's Torment
- The Forest Meeting
- Election Day and the Revelation
- Hester Returns
The author's pen in The Scarlet Letter
The passages themselves, Nathaniel Hawthorne's own words, as Literah maps it.
- The Wild Rose Bushch. 1
- The Prison Door Turnsch. 2
- The Letter Ach. 2
- Sinless Motherhood By Contrastch. 2
- Finger on His Lipsch. 3
- Speak Out His Namech. 3
- Hester Will Not Speakch. 3
- The Hidden Letterch. 4
- Hester's Cottage on the Shorech. 5
- Half Truth And Self Delusionch. 5
- Hester's Fashionable Handiworkch. 5
- The Sentence Never Sleepsch. 5
- The Scarlet Letter Endowed With Lifech. 6
- Pearl as Spirit Messengerch. 6
- Hidden Behind The Letterch. 7
- Pearl Keeps Me Herech. 8
- The Child as Salvationch. 8
- Scrutiny Before Doing Goodch. 9
- The Physician’s Ecstasych. 10
- A More Intimate Revengech. 11
The characters of The Scarlet Letter
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Hester Prynnemajor
- Arthur Dimmesdalemajor
- Pearlmajor
- Roger Chillingworthmajor
- Governor Bellinghamsupporting
- Reverend John Wilsonsupporting
- Mistress Hibbinssupporting
- Puritan Community / Boston Crowdsupporting
The locations in The Scarlet Letter
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Boston Prison-Doorprison threshold
- Boston Marketplacepublic square
- The Scaffoldpublic punishment platform
- Hester’s Cottagecottage
- Governor Bellingham’s Hallgovernor’s house
- Dimmesdale’s Studyminister’s study
- The Meeting-Housechurch
- The Forest Pathforest path
- The Forest Dellforest clearing
- The Brook-Sidebrookside
- The Seashoreshoreline
- Election Day Procession Routecivic procession route
- The Burial Groundcemetery
The core concepts in The Scarlet Letter
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Public shame cannot fix identity
- Hidden guilt corrodes more deeply than public punishment
- Revenge deforms the avenger
- Symbols never remain fixed
- Pearl embodies truth that adults resist
- The forest permits truth but not escape
- Endurance becomes moral authority
The objects of note in The Scarlet Letter
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- The Scarlet Letter
- Hester’s Needlework
- Pearl’s Scarlet Clothing
- The Prison Rose-Bush
- Dimmesdale’s Hand Over His Heart
- Medicinal Herbs and Roots
- The Black Glove
- The Meteor Interpreted as a Letter
- The Possible Mark on Dimmesdale’s Breast
- The Election Sermon
- Pearl’s Seaweed Letter
- The Final Grave Emblem
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