APEnglish–Los Al

- People are arriving late while the rest of us did our tone sheet #10
- We have to work on calling the authors by their right gender

Media (pl) -> medium (s)
Data (pl) -> datum (s)

- People who talk to dead people are mediums.
- Multi media = redundancy
- History is to try and get into the people’s minds and see what they thought.
- Civilizations that get stuck die
- Ancient belief about slavery is a lack of self-control.
- To be free you must master your desires or else you will become a slave to them.
- The root of passion is to suffer.
- People without laws have sin.
- In Puritan conception we are free from sin in order to do only good.
- Roosevelt
Freedom from…
Freedom from…
Freedom from…
Freedom from…
- The new conception is now freedom to…
- The law needs to be consistent; the law can’t be changed for anyone.
- In parliament the people are represented.

Applying This to the Scarlet Letter

Nature
~ ‘The Black Man’
~ Sin
~ Unrestrained freedom
~ ‘Free from consequences’
~ Children live without consequences
CHILDLIKE
~ Antinomians

Civilization
~ Law
~ Consequences (brought by the law)
~ Spiritual truth
~ Adults have consequences
~ Legalists

- The scarlet letter is the mark of law…Pearl is the consequence of Hester’s actions
- To consecrate something is to make it sacred and/or holy.
- “What we did had a consecration of its own”. (important)
- “ The Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church”.
- Underlined words are examples of symbols of the law.
- * Key Line of the book (so it is exclaimed): “Such was the sympathy of Nature- that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth- with the bliss of these two spirits!”

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