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The Scarlet Letter
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The Scarlet Letter for instance that's this foundational text of American punitiveness right.
What they say about it
- Discusses themes of punishment and shaming“foundational text of American punitiveness”2
The best things said about it
Nathaniel Hawthorne talks about public hanging as a means of execution, you know, and it's in the Scarlet Letter and it's it's it's brutal.
If you went to read a book in high school in the 80s like the Scarlet Letter and you're like, 'Oh god, do I really have to read the Scarlet Letter?' You would go to a store and you would buy this uh yellow and black uh very thin pamphlet.
We have a book called The Scarlet Letter about public shaming.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Dec 2015 The way you read say Scarlet Letter is actually a novel of immigrants that maybe the characters wouldn't have behaved that way in a quote unquote Home Country.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · Jan 2017 Where and when it comes up
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6 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classic American novel about a woman forced to wear a scarlet letter after committing adultery in a Puritan community. Libby Emmons brought up the novel on Timcast IRL while discussing historical methods of public execution and punishment in colonial Massachusetts. Josh Clark referenced the book on Stuff You Should Know as a quintessential example of a classic high school novel that students often dread reading. Theo Von mentioned the book on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von while brainstorming potential baby names for a daughter. Chris Hayes referenced it on The Book Review as a foundational text regarding American punitiveness. Joe Rogan mentioned the novel on two separate episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience—first while talking to Molly Crabapple about the history of public shaming, and later while chatting with Erik Griffin to compare modern cancel culture to the historical themes of public shaming in the novel. Finally, Tyler Cowen brought up the book on Conversations with Tyler to discuss Jhumpa Lahiri's unique perspective on it as an immigrant novel.
Every mention
Joe Rogan we have a book called The Scarlet Letter about public shaming 2
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“how old it is The Scarlet Letter and we're still doing that”
Discussed
“we have a book called The Scarlet Letter about public shaming”
Chris Hayes so like The Scarlet Letter for instance that's this foundational text of American punitiveness right 1
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“so like The Scarlet Letter for instance that's this foundational text of American punitiveness right”
Josh Clark like if you went to read a book in high school in the 80s like the Scarlet Letter and you're like, 'Oh god,… 1
Discussed
“like if you went to read a book in high school in the 80s like the Scarlet Letter and you're like, 'Oh god, do I really have to read the Scarlet Letter?' You would go to a store and you would buy this uh yellow and black uh very thin pamphlet.”
Libby Emmons Albert Kimu talks about witnessing a public hanging. Uh certainly in the colonies in Massachusetts, Nathani… 1
Discussed
“Albert Kimu talks about witnessing a public hanging. Uh certainly in the colonies in Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne talks about public hanging as a means of execution, you know, and it's in the Scarlet Letter and it's it's it's brutal.”
Theo Von probably something from that um Scarlet Letter book what are some names in that book 1
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“probably something from that um Scarlet Letter book what are some names in that book”
Tyler Cowen one of the things I've liked about just comments you've dropped is the way you read say Scarlet Letter is a… 1
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“one of the things I've liked about just comments you've dropped is the way you read say Scarlet Letter is actually a novel of immigrants that maybe the characters wouldn't have behaved that way in a quote unquote Home Country even a lot of Hardy especially Tess favorite of yours you can read as a kind of immigrant novel sure”
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Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“it's like if you went to read a book in high school in the 80s like the Scarlet Letter and you're like, "Oh god, do I really have to read the Scarlet Letter?"”
Passing
“If you had a daughter what would her name be / probably something from that / um Scarlet Letter book ... Hester / that's beautiful Hester / maybe a pearl / Pearl / Roger Chillingworth”
Passing
“So you'd think, of course, like I mean they're famous for the Scarlet Letter! These are the people who branded Hester Prynne with The Scarlet Letter!”
Passing
“I think I remember just reading uh Scarlet Letter and that popped into my head for some reason”
Passing
“and then Nancy mace who's just just really trying to get attention every way she can uh she wearing an A on her shirt because she's like a Scarlet Letter the other day because she said she's been silenced which is funny because I just everywhere you look there's a lot of mace she should she should read the book”
Passing
“Then there’s Nancy Mace, who's just trying to get attention in any way she can; she's wearing an 'A' on her shirt like a Scarlet Letter because she says she’s been silenced. It’s funny because everywhere you look, there’s a lot of Mace—she should read the book.”
Passing
“and you just read like the first chapter of like uh um scarlet letter to him”
Passing
“Even if you call them like, 'Hey, listen to me read a little bit of this stuff that I wrote,' and you just read like the first chapter of, like, The Scarlet Letter to them. Yeah, they would love that.”
Passing
“there's a word for a woman who sleeps with a man who's married uh I I don't know if I'm allowed to say that”
Passing
“as and The Scarlet Letter that you mentioned in the Scarlet letters dunce caps for students who were misbehaving in class”
Passing
“Maybe we should all go back and read "The Scarlet Letter" again?”
Passing
“If you even know 1492 you get half the answers right If you read the scar letter you get four out of five answers right So I mean that's a 80 right there”
Passing
“She she she's the person who would like walk you through uh the Scarlet Letter and then you're and when you you don't turn something in on time, she'd be like, "I'm just so disappointed in you."”
Passing
“That's the friend that's a hester prynne book Scarlet woman”
Speaker This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von New Studio | This Past Weekend #78 2018-03-05 Listen at 1:02:08