Essay on Scarlet Letter

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Question # 1 | Textual References/Observations | Reactions and Reflections (Commentary on the textual references) | Reference the word “ignominy” in Ch. 2, Ch. 3, and Ch. 7. Comment on why Hawthorne repeatedly uses the word, in terms of purpose. | “Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.” “…the human head is its tight grasp, and thus holding it up to the public gaze. The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.” | Hawthorne uses the word ignominy so much because the town
Hester feels like she will be the better teacher and god sent her to her for a reason and just wanted her daughter because she is the reason all this has happen to her. She also compares Pearl to the scarlet letter by saying she is the scarlet letter but she can be loved and I think Hester is scared that if she loses Pearl nobody can love her because they will see her daughter as a bastard child and or devils child. Even though Hester made a mistake she doesn’t regret it and she learns from it everyday. | | | |

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Question # 8 | Textual References/Observations | Reactions and Reflections (Commentary on the textual references) | | “…bprne the black flower of civilized society, a prison”“Let the black flower blossom as it may! Now go thy ways, and deal as thou wilt with yonder man” | The black flower symbolizes the society. Meaning how it is all evil and full of sin with no truth. They also compare the black flower to Pearl by saying Pearl has dark eyes and she has them because, she was