This cupcake-A-sculpture atop a scaffold exhibits a very swarthy-looking Hester replete with swarthy-looking baby Pearl. I think the immensity of the letter itself (both on Hester's outfit and engulfing the scaffold) is surely meant to symbolize the immensity of Hester's sin and her vast loneliness in bearing it.
It is rare that a cookie sheet so aptly portrays the symbolic representations of Hawthorne's novel. The A-besmirched tombstone parallels death with Hester's shame - AND gives a snarky wink to Dimmesdale's "buried" guilt. The scene depicted on cookie's right hemisphere shows the symbolic rose spurting hope and regeneration outside the ghastly Puritan prison door.
The white tapestery of icing is besmirched by the symbolic M&M candies - scarlet M&M candies! The brief pleasure of sin (signified by the rich milk chocolate in a crunchy-candy coating) leaves its eternal mark on the soul. (Also, if you look closely, the M&M candies form the letter A on each cookie! Brilliant, yet subtle!)
Why do all your projects include baked goods? Do you have a deal on the side with Pillsbury?
ReplyDeleteI will never be able to even think about that book with out seeing red cupcakes now. Thank you.
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Your playlist includes Vince Guaraldi!?! Could this blog get any better?
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I'm not a particular Vince Guaraldi fan...there I said it. Maybe it's because on my Recently Added playlist, it goes straight from TobyMac's "City On Our Knees" to Vince Guaraldi's "Greensleeves."
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I don't know what is best about this entry...the fact that Nathanial Hawthorne's great genius has been immortalized in a baked goods or that so much besmirching was going on.
Oh, and if you want a good contraphone, look up Brandi Carlisle's new song "Dying Day."