Tag: the scarlet letter
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Day 410 of 1000: Stories that Imprison vs. Stories that Free
Riffing off a Tara Brach podcast episode title, thinking about Hester Prynne’s big mistake and how it led to a good, if grief-filled, life.
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Day 406 of 1000: Art and Creative Differentiation
Nietzsche thought that a great person would creatively differentiate their existence rather than living with the herd. Deleuze applied this idea to art.
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Day 405 of 1000: Tragedy vs Transformation
Planning a book-based artwork about great novels featuring adulterous women.
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Day 400 of 1000: Hawthorne’s Heroine Hester
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s emergence as a bestselling author in his forties, and how he introduces his heroine Hester Prynne.
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Day 399 of 1000: Shame into Strength
The Scarlet Letter features a heroine who turns her shame into strength.