the scarlet letter chapter 1-3 Flashcards
what is the first chapter called
the prison door
examples of dark imagery in first two paragraphs of chapter 1
sad colored garments door studded with iron spikes prison house grave cemetery
in the 3rd paragraph of chapter 1, what is introduced that contrasts the gloomy imagery
the rose bush
what can describe the tone of the puritans
dark
what is the setting and time period
Boston
Puritan time
the flowers symbolize
some sweet moral blossom
what is chapter 2 called
the market place
example of verbal irony in chapter 2
The grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of THESE GOOD PEOPLE would have augured some awful business in hand
theme of the novel
sin
Hawthorne believes there is ____ levels of sin
4
who was anne hutchinson
religious but free living woman who disagreed with Puritan society.
how did the scarlet letter get its rise to fame in north america
first symbolic novel in North America
what was transcendentalism
positive outlook on life
two transcendentalist writers
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
two anti-transcendentalist writers
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mistress HIbbens represents the
Puritan fear of witchcraft
Mistress Hibbing is the sister to who
the governor
The women, who were now standing about the prison door, stood within less than half a century of the period when the man like Elizabeth had been the not altogether unsuitable representative of the sex.
quote
Hawthorne is an anti—
puritan
“let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.”
Represents changing sympathy for Hester by the young woman
town beadle =
jailor
all the other women want Hester to
die
Hester has to wear a ____ until she dies
red A on clothing
can Hester leave boston? does she?
yes, no
