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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Character

Period 5

Gillian Murray,

Julia Lemoine

Giulia Greene

Gabby Polumbo

Chapter 4: The Interview

Quote: 1

"To say the truth, there was much need of professional assistance, not merely for Hester herself, but still more urgently for the child--who, drawing its sustenance from the maternal bosom, seemed to have drank in with it all the turmoil, the anguish and despair, which pervaded the mother's system " ( 62).

Quote: 2

Vocab

"Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face " (63).

Maternal:

a motherly feeling, usually associated with a positive connotation.

Turmoil:

A great state of disturbance

Vocab:

gazing:

to look steady or intently

apprehension:

fear or anxiety

Quote 3

"With calm and intent scrutiny, he felt her pulse, looked into her eyes--a gaze that made her heart shrink and shudder, because so familiar, and yet so strange and cold--and, finally, satisfied with his investigation, proceeded to mingle another draught " ( 64).

Chapter Five

Vocab :

Shudder :

an act due to being scared pr in fear

Draught:

a British word for draft

Emotionally

self-critical, self salvation

"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 for her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which she has lost; more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom."

Chapter One

Chapter 3

Vocab

purge: to clear of imputed guilt or ritual uncleanliness.

martyrdom: display of exaggerated suffering to obtain sympathy or admiration

Physically

Setting the Environment

mysterious, magical, forbidden

Emotional

Setting the Environment

"This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it...."

  • Scared: "She fled for refuge, as it were, to the public exposure, and dreaded the moment when its protection should be withdrawn from her" (59).

Physical

"They averred, that the symbol was not mere scarlet cloth, tinged in an earthly dye-pot, but was red-hot with infernal fire, and could be seen glowing all alight, whenever Hester Prynne walked abroad in the night-time.

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariable recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. "

  • Distant: "While this passed, Hester Prynne had been standing on her pedestal, still with a fixed gaze towards the stranger; so fixed a gaze, that, at moments of intense absorption, all other objects in the visible world seemed to vanish, leaving only him and her" (58-59).

Vocab

averred: to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.

Physical

Intellectually

lonely, invisible, loveless

  • Nervous: "She seemed conscious, indeed, that whatever sympathy she might expect lay in the larger and warmer heart of the multitude; for, as she lifted her eyes towards the balcony, the unhappy woman grew pale and trembled" (60).

She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt; no more smile with the household joy, nor mourn with the kindred sorrow; or, should it succeed in manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible repugnance.

Intellectual

vocab

Kinderd: a group of persons related to another; family

Sorrow: disappointment, sadness

manifesting: obvious; apparent

Repugnance: obvious; apparent

  • Aware: "From this intense consciousness of being the object of severe and universal observation, the wearer of the scarlet letter was at length relieved by discerning, on the outskirts of the crowd, a figure which irresistibly took possession of her thoughts" (56).
  • Stubborn: "Madam Hester absolutely refuseth to speak, and the magistrates have laid their heads together in vain" (58). (shown again on page 62 and 63***)

Chapter 2

Emotionally

Nervous- "it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom." P.50

Physically

Holding baby over scarlet letter

Proud- "with a burning blush and a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople..."

Looked lady-like

"figure of perfect elegance"

In agony- "she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her." P. 52

Diction and Tone

"This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die," P. 49

irritation/ rage

"The crowd was sombre and grave," P. 53

Solemn

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