He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse has hurried
Speaker: narrator
Literary Device: Personification --> "Remorse" and "Cowardice" acting as people
Context: talking about Dimmesdale when he is up on the scaffold at night, his torn emotions
Importance: shows how Dimmesdale is torn between his emotions of
The victim was forever on the rack; it needed only to know the spring that controlled the engine;-- and they physician knew it well.
Speaker: Narrator
Literary device: metaphor --> spring that controls the engine = Dimmesdale's secret
allusion -- the rack = torture device
Context: talking about Chillingworth's influence on Dimmesdale's actions (both his current influence on everyday th
Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing into the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, dete
Speaker: Narrator
Literary Device: simile --> "as if a company of devils..."
Context: Dimmesdale is on the scaffold at night, feeling torn inside, and lets out a very loud scream unconsciously
Importance: shows the terror and misery of his scream; emphasi
Since that day, no man is no near to him as you. You tread behind his every footstep. You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart.
Speaker: Hester
Literary device: metaphor--> comparing Chillingworth to a serpent/bug/worm...Serpent=evil just like Chillingworth
Context: Hester is disturbed by Chillingworth being so clingy to Dimmesdale - trying to figure out if he knows about them
Imp
A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.
Speaker: Narrator
Literary Device: Simile --> "like a snake..."
Context: when Chillingworth has just arrived at the town and sees Hester on the scaffold, and asks a person in the crown why. the reason he hears is the cause of this reaction
Importance: sho
She never created a friend, but seemed always to be sowing broadcast the dragon's teeth, whence sprung a harvest of armed enemies, against whom she rushed to battle.
Speaker: narrator
Literary device: allusion --> Greek myth, Athena tells warrior to do these things (plant teeth, grow enemies)
Context: talking about Pearl when she is little (they they are describing they life for the first 7 years in the cabin)
Importa
See ye not, she is the scarlet letter...
Speaker: Hester
Literary Device: metaphor --> Pearl = scarlet letter
Context: in Governor Bellingham's house. talking about Hester and Pearl (wither Hester can keep her or not)
Importance: Pearl = scarlet letter
. punishment to her mother
. only thing Hes
I have no Heavenly Father!
Speaker: Pearl
Literary device: none
Context: when Pearl is asking Hester where she came from, and Hester says "from the heavenly father"
Importance: Pearl doesn't know that Dimmesdale is her father / doesn't really accept that he is
All his strength and energy- all his vital and intellectual force- seemed at once to desert him; insomuch that he positively withered up, shriveled away, and almost vanished from the mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun.
Speaker: Narrator
Literary device: simile --> "like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun"
Context: talking about Chillingworth's transformation after Dimmesdale dies
Importance: Chillingworth's purpose in life was for revenge on Dimmesdale -- now
Hester's strong, calm, steadfastly enduring spirit almost sand, at last, on beholding this dark and grim countenance of an inevitable doom, which- at that moment when a passage seemed to open for the minister and herself out of their labyrinth of misery-
Speaker: Narrator
Literary device: personification --> "showed itself with an unrelenting smile"
Context: revealed to Hester via Pearl about Chillingworth's plan to bomb her and RAD's escape - Chill smiles at her from across the crowd -> Hester despairs
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Assuredly, as the minister looked back, he beheld an expression of divine gratitude and ecstasy that seemed like the shine of a celestial city on her face, so wrinkled and ashy pale.
Speaker:narrator
Literary device: simile --> "like the shine..."
Context: Dimmesdale giving advice to the old lady (in the street)
Importance: Dimmesdale doesnt believe anymore -- her wrinkled and ashy face shows just as much "divine gratitude" and spirit
But there lay the embroidered letter, glittering like a lost jewel, which some ill-fated wanderer might pick up, and thenceforth be haunted by strange phantoms of guilt, sinkings of the heart, and unaccountable misfortune.
Speaker: narrator
Literary device: simile -> "like a lost jewel..."
irony that the "jewel" will only bring "great misfortune" to the owner
Context: Hester has cast down the scarlet letter on the forest floor, it lays there
Importance: while the "A" may lo
For many years, though a vague report would now and then find its way across the sea,�like a shapeless piece of driftwood tost ashore, with the initials of a name upon it,�yet no tidings of them unquestionably authentic were received.
Speaker: narrator
Literary device: simile --> " like a shapeless piece of driftwood"
Context: talking about news about Pearl to the Bostonians once she and Hester leave
Importance: people of the town never really hear about Pearl again- she disappears fro
Surely, surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!
Speaker: Hester
Literary device: metaphor --> ransom = payment
jesus-> ransom for sin
Context: trying to convince Dimmesdale to not give up and die and blame himself
Importance: Hester thinks that their sorrows/grief should have canceled out their sins -
But she named the infant 'Pearl' as being of great price,-- purchased with all she had,-- her mother's only treasure!
Speaker: Narrator
Literary device: simile--> "as being of great price"
Context: first description of Pearl herself
Importance: not only is Pearl valuable to Hester in that she is her child, but also that Pearl came at a high price
. loves her, and is tort
Sometimes a 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 hill-side, and quivered on the pi
Speaker: Narrator
Literary device: simile--> "like the reflection of a furnace"
"like one of those gleams of ghastly fire..."
. allusion --> Paul Bunyan
Context: talking about Chillingworth's demeanor - how he acts, what he does, etc
Importance: he gets r
... 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.
This is on the study guide twice. so. its probubly gonna be on the exam. (the other one includes a little bit more of the quote at the beginning)
Speaker: Narrator
Literary Device: simile --> "as if a company of devils..."
Context: Dimmesdale is on the sc
they needed something slight and casual to run before, and throw open the doors of intercourse, so that their real thoughts might be led across the threshold.
Speaker: Narrator
Literary device: metaphor --> threshold = their true feelings / what has been on their minds
Context: when Hester and Dimmesdale are just starting to talk when they meet in the forest
Importance: shows that they just don't resume to thei
...an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page two days before.
Speaker: Narrator
Literary device: metaphor --> unfinished sermon = him feeling / being incomplete
Context: talking about Dimmesdales sermon sitting on his desk, how he couldn't finish it
Importance: the fact that it was already unfinished means that he w
[the stream] still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore.
Speaker: Narrator
Literary device: personification - "murmuring"
Context: when Hester and RAD and Pearl are leaving the forest - how they are leaving the forest (how the forest, acting like people, is dealing with what just happened)
Importance: shows som