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Illinois USA
Nibblefest Contest: ACEO: 'The Scarlet Letter'
~"The Scarlet Letter"~
An ACEO entry by me for January's Nibblefest Art Contest (NFAC) (--the
theme being 'Letters, Symbols, Numbers')
features that much maligned, but ever steadfast, female protagonist of
early American fiction, the infamous Hester Prynne of "The Scarlet
Letter"..... Here we see Hester, her infant swaddled in her arms and her
back against the wall....Harken back to your high school literature class and that classic tome by the novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorn -- poor Hester has had the misfortune of giving birth to an illegitimate child while her estranged husband is well out of the picture. Her suspicious neighbours in her tight-knit puritan community turn upon her and punish severely, complete with social shunning and public, as well as forcing her to permanently sport a large letter "A" (for "Adultery") prominently upon her dress. Adding insult to injury is the fact that her seducer, the village pastor, is actually going along with the leading this vengeful pack, too spineless and cowardly to confess his own part in the wrongdoing (hypocrite!). And yet, despite mounting pressure to give up the name of her partner in crime, she remains silent, all while trying to maintain a life for herself and her daughter with as much dignity and fortitude as she can muster....
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