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"One day, leaning his forehead on his hand, and his elbow on the sill of the open window, that looked towards the grave-yard,"

A windowsill can't look at something.

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"light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim's face."

Saying his eyes burn like the reflection of a furnace. Comparing with "like".

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Metaphor(Figurative Language and Quote) Pg. 127

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Metaphor(Figurative Language and Quote) Pg. 127

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"Wherefore not; since all the powers of nature call so earnestly for the confession of sin, that these black weeds have sprung up out of a buried heart, to make manifest, an outspoken crime?"

Black weeds symbolize Dimmesdale's personality. His sins that he has committed, giving him a black soul, a black heart, and nature can expose that.

Describing without using like or as or saying how something is using other object to represent it.

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"There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition."

Pearl doesn't like to follow customs of the other kids and does what she wants pretty much, and nobody knows if shes good or evil.

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"But still, methinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it all up in his heart"

The clergyman thinks that people who have pain in their heart should be free to express it rather than keeping it bundled up inside.

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"A bodily disease, which we look upon as a whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part"

Minister is saying that maybe there is no real ailment, just the feeling of guilt, guilt of sin and he wants to confess but can't.

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"They fear to take up the shame that rightfully belongs to the."

This just sums up sin. Everyone is always scared to confess to what they did and will never live up to it because they don't want their appearance affected.

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"But not to suggest more obvious reasons, it may be that they are kept silent by the very constitution of their nature. Or—can we not suppose it?—guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of men"

Men who hide their sins are doing it for them, but in doing so, they don't show themselves to people as much because of how ashamed they are of themselves.

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"Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man."

This quote is important because it describes how one of the main characters of the chapter acts and carries himself.

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"Many, many a poor soul hath given its confidence to me, not only on the death-bed, but while strong in life, and fair in reputation. And ever, after such an outpouring, oh, what a relief have I witnessed in those sinful brethren!"

After seeing people confess their sins, both him and the sinful look and feel relieved

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"short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried in the human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed."

The heart can only hold secrets for so long until everything comes out.

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"He groped along as stealthily, with as cautious a tread, and as wary an outlook, as a thief entering a chamber where a man lies only half asleep—or, it may be, broad awake—with purpose to steal the very treasure which this man guards as the apple of his eye. In spite of his premeditated carefulness, the floor would now and then creak; his garments would rustle; the shadow of his presence, in a forbidden proximity, would be thrown across his victim."

This quote is talking about Dimmesdale taking Hester from Chillingworth and commit adultery. He clearly had intent to do so considering the "with purpose" phrase.

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How do sin or the perception of sin, along with guilt and revenge, affect people physically, psychologically, and emotionally?

In this chapter, it doesn't talk about Hester very often. So I will cover Mr. Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale is the man who acted upon Hester and got her pregnant while Chillingworth, the physician was gone on a trip. Dimmesdale, calls Chillingworth over to check him out because he feels sick, and wont really reveal himself to the physician because he feels like he can't. Dimmesdale feels dark inside, he can't help the feeling of guilt inside of him. But at the same time, Dimmesdale doesn't even know who Chillingworth is or that he is Hester's husband. Dimmesdale was just trying to help a lonely girl. All in all, Dimmesdale feels so much guilt, he feels dead inside and that he has to take this secret to his grave with him. He knew that Hester had a husband, but didn't know it was Chillingworth.

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"Yet Mr. Dimmesdale would perhaps have seen this individual's character more perfectly, if a certain morbidness, to which sick hearts are liable, had not rendered him suspicious of all mankind. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared."

This quote is expressing that Dimmesdale didn't even know who Chillingworth was, and he was just trying to help out a sad girl all alone.