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"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).
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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).
Vocab :
Shudder :
an act due to being scared pr in fear
Draught:
a British word for draft
"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."
Vocab
purge: to clear of imputed guilt or ritual uncleanliness.
martyrdom: display of exaggerated suffering to obtain sympathy or admiration
Physically
mysterious, magical, forbidden
Emotional
"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...."
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. "
Vocab
averred: to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
Physical
Intellectually
lonely, invisible, loveless
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
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