P6 TSL Connections to Thoreau and Emerson by John Damaso https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend Put your chapter number and title as the bolded title. Then add your names in parentheses. In a single sentence, tell us how you saw Thoreau and/or Emerson's ideas, personalities, etc. in your chapter of The Scarlet Letter. Then add at least one excerpt from Thoreau/Emerson and at least one excerpt from TSL that you will use to illustrate your insight. en-us 2018-10-22 14:37:47 UTC 2025-10-12 12:56:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png Chapter 12: The Minister’s Vigil (David Perez, Carlos Orrego, Cooper Parson, Daniel Noon) https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295684607 Primal Scream
“Without any effor of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated form the hills in the background; as if a company of devils detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound and were bandying it to and fro” (Hawthorne 232). “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind” (Emerson paragraph 4, line 2). “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail” (Thoreau Line 20-22). ]]> 2018-10-22 20:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295684607 Chapter 13 (Kalra, Kozub, Magri, Murphy https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295684703
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Emerson’s ideas are represented in chapter 13 of The Scarlet Latter as Hester Pryne relies on her own beliefs instead of the Puritan social norms that surrounded her. 
“She decided, moreover, that he had a right to her utmost aid. Little accustomed, in her long seclusion from society, to measure her ideas of right and wrong by any standard external to herself, Hester saw—or seemed to see—that there lay a responsibility upon her in reference to the clergyman, which she owned to no other, nor to the whole world besides” (Hawthorne 250). 

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world...” (Emerson 4).]]> 2018-10-22 20:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295684703 Chapter 15 (Osman, Charlie, Tristan) https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295687068
“Hold thy tongue, naughty child!” answered her mother, with an asperity that she had never permitted to herself before. “Do not tease me; else I shall shut thee into the dark closet!” (Hawthorne 286).

Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. (Emerson 5).

Pearl shows the ability to speak her own mind yet the closet of society might hold her back and crush her little imagination.



]]> 2018-10-22 20:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295687068 Chapter 11 (Clary, Cohen, Cooney, Buccino) https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295687275 Emerson's ideas and personality are embodied within the character of Arthur Dimmesdale, who instead of using others to help him heal and repent relies on himself to fight his own battles.

"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. It needs a divine man to exhibit any thing divine" (Emerson 1).

"It was his genuine impulse to adore the truth, and to reckon all things shadow-like, and utterly devoid of weight or value, that had not its divine essence as the life within their life" (Hawthorne 224).

]]> 2018-10-22 20:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295687275 https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295688318 Chapter 10 (Craft, Dates, Judge, Gruler)
"But see, now, how passion takes hold upon this man, and hurrieth him out of himself” (Hawthorne 214).

“Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today” (Emerson 5).

These quotes compare with passion being at the center of non-conformity and being individualistic.]]> 2018-10-22 20:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295688318 Chapter 14 (Isaac Peters, George Resley, Peter Robles https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295690131 Emerson’s idea that we should accept the situations God has given us and trust yourself is seen in Chillingworth’s complacency of Hester trying to reveal his identity.
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events” (Emerson 2)
“Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion; neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend’s office from his hands. It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may! Now go thy ways, and deal as thou wilt with yonder man” (Hawthorne 274)]]> 2018-10-22 20:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jdamaso1/P6TSLtranscend/wish/295690131