Is Hester A Rebel? Flashcards
Had a baby out of wedlock - juxtaposition
‘The taint of the deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life’
Had a baby out of wedlock - Madonna imagery
‘The image of Devine maternity
Had a baby out of wedlock - description
‘Malefactress’
She stands out in society - nature imagery
‘The black flower of civilised society’
Vs
‘A wild rose bush…with its delicate gems’
She stands out - the other women
‘Coarser fibre’
Vs
‘Natural dignity’ and ‘perfect elegance’
The scarlet letter - colour imagery and alliteration
‘Elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread’
The scarlet letter - personification
‘Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away if it’s own nature’
Intellectual independence - Ann Hutchinson
‘She might have come down to us, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson as the founders of a religious sect’
Intellectual independence - doesn’t conform
‘The persons who speculate the most boldly often conform…to the external regulations of society’
Scaffold 1 - simile and link to Mary
‘I will not speak!’
‘Turning pale as death’
‘And my child must seek a Heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!’
Scaffold 2 - breaks promise to Chillingworth
‘He had the right to her utmost aid
Physically isolated - symbolic topography
‘Lonesome cottage’
‘The outskirts of town’
‘On the shore’
‘Forest-covered hills’
Stays in New England
‘Her sin, her ignonomy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil’
Byron
‘There is a pleasure in the pathless woods/There is a rapture on the lonely shore’
Fights the leaders - exclamatory tone
‘Ye shall not take her! I will die first!’
‘God gave her to my keeping!’
Mocking the leaders/her punishment?
‘Arraying her in a crimson velvet tunic’
‘The scarlet letter endowed with life’
Fights the leaders - emotion
‘Shriek’
‘Cried’
Critical Quote - Millington
‘Exemplifies whit it might mean to locate a life at once subversive of and engaged with ones community’
