ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

PURITAN LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The rosebush outside the prison is supposed to have sprung up in the footsteps of
A
Hester Prynne
B
Pearl
C
Anne Hutchinson
D
Mistress Hibbins
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A wild rose bush is introduced very early in The Scarlet Letter, believed to have “sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson, as she entered the prison-door” (43). Ann Hutchinson was a rebel and had her own ideas on matters of religion, which translates to the symbolic meaning of the wild rose bush.

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