Each of your responses should be in the range of 350-400 words, in single-space, and 12 pt. character format.
1. Compare the ways in which Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne represent torture in their respective works, “The Pit and the Pendulum” and The Scarlet Letter . Are they similar or different? Why?
2. Define the concept of Realism as it is applied to both stories. Give examples from the texts.
3. Name at least two Romantic characteristics in Poe’s and Hawthorne’s story. Justify your answer.
4. Read the following passage carefully and consider in your comments 1) the apparent contrastive nature of Hester’s and Dimmesdale’s predicament; 2) the significance of the contradictory “spaces” that the two characters occupy; 3) the language of the Narrator.
“While Hester stood in that magic circle of ignominy, where the cunning cruelty of her sentence seemed to have fixed her for ever, the admirable preacher was looking down from the sacred pulpit upon a audience, whose very inmost spirits had yielded to his control. The sainted minister in the church! The woman of the scarlet letter in the marketplace! What imagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise that the same scorching stigma was on them both?” (End of Chapter 22)
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