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IMDB rating: 7.50 Plot: When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes’ show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. Soon, he learns of a series of brutal murders that seemed to have been commited by a malevolent man mountain known only as the Creeper. Now, Holmes must deal with the seemingly overwhelming menace of this man and his boss in order to retrieve the pearl. |
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Actors: Rathbone Basil,Bruce Nigel,Hoey Dennis,Mander Miles,Wolfe Ian,Francis Charles,Herbert Holmes,Nugent Richard,Hatton Rondo,Austin J.W.,Benge Wilson,Bevan Billy,Cording Harry,Horror,Mystery,Crime,
Help! Scarlet letter passage?
confused about this passage please read it first then read question at the bottom THANK YOU!
But, in no long time after the physician’s death, the wearer of the scarlet letter disappeared, and Pearl along with her. For many years, though a vague report would now and then find its way across the sea–like a shapeless piece of driftwood tossed ashore with the initials of a name upon it–yet no tidings of them unquestionably authentic were received. The story of the scarlet letter grew into a legend. Its spell, however, was still potent, and kept the scaffold awful where the poor minister had died, and likewise the cottage by the sea-shore where Hester Prynne had dwelt. Near this latter spot, one afternoon some children were at play, when they beheld a tall woman in a gray robe approach the cottage-door. In all those years it had never once been opened; but either she unlocked it or the decaying wood and iron yielded to her hand, or she glided shadow-like through these impediments–and, at all events, went in.
On the threshold she paused–turned partly round–for perchance the idea of entering alone and all so changed, the home of so intense a former life, was more dreary and desolate than even she could bear. But her hesitation was only for an instant, though long enough to display a scarlet letter on her breast.
sorry it was kinda long
it says in the beginning long after hester’s gone then it starts to talk about the incident with the children and the door..which confuses me is Hawthorne trying to say this was her ghostly figure coming back to the place of her agony, her home? or did this actually happen?
Hester actually did come back after several years. She lived there alone until she died and was buried near Dimmesdale.
hot4jwg | Nov 09, 2009
I think that is one of those things that is for the reader to decide. Hawthorne was big on leaving some loose ends, and letting his readers come to their own conclusions.
SkyTurtle | Nov 09, 2009