https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g en-us 2016-11-07 16:05:00 UTC 2016-12-04 02:03:47 UTC hello@padlet.com ccusato7673 https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/135976937 Hester Prynne demonstrates her strength when standing atop the scaffolding, refusing to name her father's daughter, and confronting the Governor about keeping her daughter. She also is fearful, as seen by her fear of her daughter and Chillingsworth.]]> 2016-11-08 01:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/135976937 ccusato7673 https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/135977286 Pearl evolves from a child who represents Hester's hope and desire for redemption to a physical representation of evil and fear for her mother, who is confused by her fascination with her scarlet letter.]]> 2016-11-08 01:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/135977286 ccusato7673 https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/135977519 Roger Chillingworth appears as a devilish and terrifying from the third chapter, where he is revealed as Hester's estranged husband. He appears to be a physical representation of punishment on earth, based on his desire to find Pearl's father.]]> 2016-11-08 01:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/135977519 ccusato7673 https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/135977858 In his appearances in chapter 3 and chapter 8, Dimmesdale appears as a meek figure, but as a messenger of God nonetheless. I feel that his sickness will have importance later on.]]> 2016-11-08 01:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/135977858 ccusato7673 https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/139391927 - Chapter Two: "When the young woman-the mother of this child- stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fashioned to her dress" (39).

- Chapter Two: " Those who had before known her and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped." (39)

- Chapter Two: " The scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading since her happy infancy" (42).

- Chapter Four: " He presented a cup to Hester, who received it with a slow, earnest look into his face; not precisely a look of fear, yet full of doubt and questioning, as to what his purposes might be" (52).

- Chapter Five: " The very law that condemned her- a giant of stern features, but with vigor to support, as well as to annihilate , in his iron arm- had held her up, through the terrible ordeal of her ignominy" (55).

- Chapter Five: "She could no longer borrow from the future to help her with her present grief" (55).

- Chapter Five: "Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment; and so perchance, the torture of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which she had lost" (57).

-Chapter Five: "Lonely as was Hester's situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself, she, however, incurred no risk of want" (57).

- Chapter Five: " Her own dress was of the coarsest materials and the most somber hue; with only one ornament- the scarlet letter,-which it was her doom to wear" (58).

-Chapter Five: " Hester bestowed all her superfluous means in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not unfrequently insulted the hand that fed them" (58-59)

-Chapter Five: " In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it" (59)

-Chapter Seven: " Full of concern, therefore,- but so conscious of her own right that it seemed scarcely an unequal match between the public, on  the one side, and a lonely woman, backed by the sympathies of nature, on the other,- Hester Prynne set forth from her solitary cottage" (70).

- Chapter Seven: "Hester looked, by the way of humoring the child; and she saw that, owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance" (73).

- Chapter Thirteen: " Knowing what this poor, fallen man had once been, her whole soul was moved by the shuddering terror with which he had appealed to her,- the outcast woman,- for support against his instinctively discovered enemy, she decided, moreover, that he had a right to her utmost aid" (109).

-Chapter Thirteen: "Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during her long ignominy" (109).

- Chapter Thirteen: " She never battled with the public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it, in requital for what she had suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies" (110).

- Chapter Thirteen: " In all season of calamity, indeed, whether general or of individuals, the outcast of society found her place... The letter was a symbol of her calling, such helpfulness was found in her,- so much power to do, and power to sympathize,- that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne; with a woman's strength" (110-111)

- Chapter Thirteen: " It was due in part to all these causes, but still more to something else, that there seemed to be no longer any thing in Hester's face for Love to dwell upon; nothing in Hester's form though majestic and statue-like, that Passion would ever dream of clasping in its embrace; nothing in Hester's bosom, to make it ever again the pillow of Affection" (112).

- Chapter Thirteen: " In fine, Hester Prynne resolved to meet her former husband, and do what might be in her power for the rescue of the victim on whom he had so evidently set his gripe" (114).

- Chapter Fourteen: "' I must reveal the secret,' answered Hester firmly. ' He must discern thee in thy true character. What may be the result, I know not. But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid'" (118).

-Chapter Fourteen: "' There is no good for him,- no good for me,- no good for thee! There is no good little Pearl! There is no path to guide us out of this dismal maze'" (118).

- Chapter Seventeen: (To Dimmesdale) "' Such a friend as thou hast even now wished for,' said she,' with who to weep over thy sin, thou hast in me, the partner of it'" (131).

- Chapter Seventeen: "' Thou shall not go alone!' answered she, in a deep whisper" (135). ( in response to Dimmesdale being reluctant to leave Boston)

- Chapter Eighteen: " But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period no merely estranged, but outlawed, from society, had habituated herself to such altitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman. She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate... The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not read. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones,- and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss" (135-136).]]> 2016-11-22 15:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/139391927 ccusato7673 https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/139402872 - fear of Chillingworth
-refusal to indict Dimmesdale as her companion]]> 2016-11-22 16:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ccusato7673/sylg7mcsc55g/wish/139402872