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Belushi Posted 20 years ago
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What could the writer mean this time using GRAVED?

Her full text for this point is thus,

Benstock further regards the Scarlet Letter as a symbol of substitution that stands for protecting Hester’s authority, her body as a body of sin that coevally reveals functions of biological reproduction and symbolic representation.

Hester’s body becomes an object that has graved in social, religious and cultural values of an invented 17th century Puritan society:


“Woman’s body serves as the space where social, religious, and cultural values are inscribed (quite literally in Hester’s case); moreover, it produces the very terms of that inscription: Pearl is the scarlet letter in human form” (Benstock: 397, quoting Hawthorne:90).
Could she mean "been engraved"

Thanks in advance
  

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From the Wiktionary Intransitive grave To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. I don't know if this helps interpret that rather unusual use of the word! CJ

— CalifJim

  • From the Wiktionary Intransitive grave To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  • I don't know if this helps interpret that rather unusual use of the word!
  • CJ
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From the Wiktionary

Intransitive
grave
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

I don't know if this helps interpret that rather unusual use of the word!

CJ
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