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Essay due Monday the 28th

Scarlet Letter:

Hanna was thinking how writing helps people forget and helpsothers remember,

Do you think that Hawthorn forgot about the guilt? Was hepeaceful after he finished the novel?

Pearl’s faith: how much of the self can one know? How muchof the private self can we know? Scarlet Letter is about the crow…

 

In The Scarlet Letter:

...The Old World, with its crowds and cities,offered them a more eligible shelter and concealment than the wilds of NewEngland, or all America, with it’s...few settlements (153)...The crowd was in atumult. The men of rank and dignity...were so taken by surprise, and soperplexed as to the purport of what they saw...that they remained silent andinactive spectators.... they beheld the minister...approach the scaffold, andascend its steps...Old Roger Chillingworth followed..."there was no oneplace so secret...where thou couldst have escaped me, --save on this veryscaffold" (179).

How can being so public become a way of being so secret?

 

Move from Hawthorn: Crow operates on the movie, a theoryabout film resection, what happens when they have shared experience…privatelife gets constructive of public life…

 

Blog:

Are a form of mass experience

Some of the definitions of blogs during class

Blog: an illusion of transparency, way in which socialprotest have become public, a story told my many, a place to express one’sself, a community, a social form, and a third world of expressions, a space forrandomness…

 

We blog:

It is a global autobiography project that everybody works on

Neil: the idea of writing a text can actually shape the lifeof someone who is writing it

Hard to know what is the real or copy? 

Why are blogs so hot? Because they promote self-expression,no labels, no membership, and take care of the self through writing

 Another reasonwhy blogs are so hot is that this an unstable time, and blogs promote tostabilized one’s self through writing

Writing a blog is like going to a mass ball because  one can say what one cannot say face toface

 

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