Is Hester A Rebel? Flashcards

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Had a baby out of wedlock - juxtaposition

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‘The taint of the deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life’

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Had a baby out of wedlock - Madonna imagery

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‘The image of Devine maternity

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Had a baby out of wedlock - description

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‘Malefactress’

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She stands out in society - nature imagery

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‘The black flower of civilised society’
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‘A wild rose bush…with its delicate gems’

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She stands out - the other women

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‘Coarser fibre’
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‘Natural dignity’ and ‘perfect elegance’

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The scarlet letter - colour imagery and alliteration

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‘Elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread’

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The scarlet letter - personification

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‘Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away if it’s own nature’

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Intellectual independence - Ann Hutchinson

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‘She might have come down to us, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson as the founders of a religious sect’

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Intellectual independence - doesn’t conform

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‘The persons who speculate the most boldly often conform…to the external regulations of society’

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Scaffold 1 - simile and link to Mary

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‘I will not speak!’
‘Turning pale as death’
‘And my child must seek a Heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!’

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Scaffold 2 - breaks promise to Chillingworth

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‘He had the right to her utmost aid

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Physically isolated - symbolic topography

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‘Lonesome cottage’
‘The outskirts of town’
‘On the shore’
‘Forest-covered hills’

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Stays in New England

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‘Her sin, her ignonomy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil’

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Byron

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‘There is a pleasure in the pathless woods/There is a rapture on the lonely shore’

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Fights the leaders - exclamatory tone

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‘Ye shall not take her! I will die first!’

‘God gave her to my keeping!’

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16
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Mocking the leaders/her punishment?

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‘Arraying her in a crimson velvet tunic’

‘The scarlet letter endowed with life’

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Fights the leaders - emotion

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‘Shriek’

‘Cried’

18
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Critical Quote - Millington

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‘Exemplifies whit it might mean to locate a life at once subversive of and engaged with ones community’