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"The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand."

"As if there were a withering spell in the sad letter, her beauty, the warmth and richness of her womanhood, departed, like fading sunshine; and a gray shadow seemed to fall acriss her" (Chapter 19)

"It was only the darkened house that could contain her. When sunshine came again, she was not there. Her shadow had faded across the threshold"

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"...the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age which gave a yet darker aspect to...gloomy front..." (Hawthorne pg. 46)
"Is it the Black Man?" (Hawthorne pg. 183)

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Achluophobia- fear of darkness
Black or darkness, a mysterious color but also formal. Powerful and elegant, but frightening ever looming like death itself. Sometimes associated with evil, for it is always concealing something. Black and darkness's meaning is used to represent sin (evil) and mystery (Chillingworth and Dimmesdale's character). Like when Pearl asks about the mysterious man in the forest, which she called the "Black Man." Darkness also can be something of illusion or a mystery, like what is associated with pearl and her mystery father. lurking into the shadows and never really appearing. Darkness can be associated with Hester's power to see peoples sins. Their deep dark secrets in the darkest parts of their lives. She can see that darkness in everyone. She humbles herself from the scarlet letter and "darkness" to make herself better than all of them.