The Scarlet Letter
Novel by Nathaniel HawthorneWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
Morgana SantilliHOST
And that is an exploration of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow meeting and talking about the history of Salem.
Morgana SantilliHOST
Now, Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of The Scarlet Letter, famously.
Morgana SantilliHOST
He was born in Salem, and he was his ancestor, John Hawthorne.
Morgana SantilliHOST
was one of the officials in the witchcraft trials.
David HorsagerGUEST
It is the only way you will ever rebuild trust.
Drew NeiserHOST
It's funny how certain things stick with you in your life, but Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a book called The Scarlet Letter.
Drew NeiserHOST
And in this book, the character is accused of adultery, and they put an A on her sweater.
Drew NeiserHOST
Red.
Olivia ClementHOST
Nope.
Olivia ClementHOST
Scarlet Letter is different.
Olivia ClementHOST
Hawthorne.
Isaac SimsHOST
Yeah.
LianneGUEST
She had the audacity to wear a, what was known as a red paragon bodice, which is the chapter title.
LianneGUEST
A red paragon bodice makes us think, of course, of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
LianneGUEST
Um, backstory on Nathaniel Hawthorne, his, uh, his ancestors [laughs] were the Hathornes, who were part of the witch trial, the, uh, one of the judges, one of the most notorious, uh, and violent judges of the witch trials.
LianneGUEST
And so he put the W in his name to distance himself from that truly bloody legacy.
Bryony McGuinnessGUEST
Let's grab that.
Bryony McGuinnessGUEST
Cause I've only grabbed like maybe like 10 or so, but there's more, but so I'm reading Mansfield Park, The Scarlet Letter again from literature class because I hated all those books.
Bryony McGuinnessGUEST
I'm giving them all a try again.
Bryony McGuinnessGUEST
the handmaid's tale they're all just gonna be really random ps um villette i think that's how you say it by um charlotte bronte uh david copperfield which i again hated that book because we read it in in year 12 and they were like you need to finish this book before you come back for like before you finish the school holidays and come and start year 12 and i'm like Do we not end this holidays? Like the book's like a brick.
Dan NathanHOST
Like, think about that.
Dan NathanHOST
That is going to be like a scarlet letter for a long time.
Dan NathanHOST
And don't think for a second that even though Kevin Warsh is one of those guys who was a very popular choice, he was right out of central casting like Trump likes and all that sort of stuff.
Dan NathanHOST
He'll be dead as a doornail, man.
Dan NathanHOST
No.
Dan NathanHOST
Do you know what
Guy AdamiHOST
year Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter? Just throw a number out.
Dan NathanHOST
1794 that's
Rick WarrenHOST
You know, Nathaniel Hawthorne was probably one of the greatest writers in American history.
Rick WarrenHOST
He wrote that book, The Scarlet Letter, and many other books you probably had to read in school.
Rick WarrenHOST
Great American writer.
Rick WarrenHOST
He failed as a customs clerk.
KozlowskiHOST
Both Hawthorne and Irving are essentially turning colonial American history of the 17th and 18th centuries into the stuff of myths and legends.
KozlowskiHOST
You get stories like The Scarlet Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne, where colonial America takes on mythic significance.
KozlowskiHOST
You get, you know, Irving telling stories about Blackbeard or the Devil and Tom Walker with its sort of, like, appropriation of the Faust myth into a, you know, colonial American context.
KozlowskiHOST
Um...
James HutchisonNARRATOR
He was so modest and delicate a genius that we may fancy him appealing from the lonely honor of a representative attitude, perceiving a painful incongruity between his imponderable literary baggage and the large conditions of American life.
James HutchisonNARRATOR
Hawthorne on the one side is so subtle and slender and unpretending, and the American world on the other is so vast and various and substantial, that it might seem to the author of The Scarlet Letter and The Mosses from an Old Manse that we render him a poor service in contrasting his proportions with those of a great civilization.
James HutchisonNARRATOR
But our author must accept the awkward as well as the graceful side of his fame, for he has the advantage of pointing a valuable moral.
James HutchisonNARRATOR
This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep, that it takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature, that it needs a complex social machinery to set a writer in motion.
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James HutchisonNARRATOR
One of the longest, though by no means one of the most successful, of Hawthorne's shorter tales, The Gentle Boy, deals with this pitiful persecution of the least aggressive of all schismatic bodies.
James HutchisonNARRATOR
William Hawthorne, who had been made a magistrate of the town of Salem, where a grant of land had been offered him as an inducement to residence, figures in New England history as having given orders that, quote, Anne Coleman and four of her friends, unquote, should be whipped through Salem, Boston, and Dedham.
James HutchisonNARRATOR
This Anne Coleman, I suppose, is the woman alluded to in that fine passage in the introduction to The Scarlet Letter, in which Hawthorne pays a qualified tribute to the founder of the American branch of his race.
James HutchisonNARRATOR
Quote, the figure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur, was present to my boyish imagination as far back as I can remember.
Yuri LeeGUEST
It's called The Scarlet Symphony.
Yuri LeeGUEST
because i was really moved when i read the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne in high school and so i'm writing a four movement piece and each movement is a tone poem basically a an illustration of a character and so i ha actually i was the composer apprentice in 2022 for nyo usa national youth orchestra and and they read this piece so i might play that um and i'll also pull up the score okay and i yeah
Claire LeeHOST
yeah just curious could you kind of explain what a tone poem is
Yuri LeeGUEST
Yes, of course.
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