Active Reading The Scarlet Letter Chapters 16 24 Answers Pdf
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Hester's reputation has changed over the seven years since she had Pearl. Her devotion to serving the sick and needy has given her access into almost every home, and people now interpret the A as meaning \"Able\" rather than \"Adultery.\" The narrator goes so far as to state that \"the scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom.\"
Hester sends Pearl away for a moment and approaches Chillingworth. He tells her that the council thinks she may be allowed to remove the scarlet letter in due time, to which she replies that no earthly power can decide such a thing. Hester then notices the changes that have taken place in Chillingworth over the past seven years. She sees that he has gone from a soft-spoken scholar to a fierce man. He \"was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil.\"
During her mother's conversation with Roger Chillingworth, Pearl has managed to play by herself. Her last act is to make the symbol of the scarlet letter out of seaweed and put it on her chest. Her mother asks her if she knows what the letter means, but Pearl only knows it is the letter A.
Hester then asks Pearl if she knows why her mother wears the letter. Pearl answers that \"It is for the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his heart!\" Pearl then demands that her mother tell her what the A stands for and why the minister keeps putting his hand over his heart. Hester lies about the letter for the first time ever, saying that she wears it for the gold thread.
Hester's refusal to tell Pearl the true meaning of the letter is symbolic of Pearl's role in the novel. Pearl has often been compared to a living version of the scarlet letter. Thus, until she is told what the letter really means, she is unable to know herself. Her role as a living scarlet letter is to announce to the whole world who the guilty parties are, something she has unwittingly done throughout the novel.
Hester, tired of Pearl asking about the scarlet letter, tells her that the letter is the mark of the Black Man, which she received after meeting the Black Man once before. Dimmesdale then starts coming down the forest path, and Pearl sees him. She asks her mother if he covers his heart because he has a mark on his chest as well. She further asks why he does not wear his mark on the outside of his clothing like her mother does.
When Pearl asks why Dimmesdale does not wear his letter on the outside of his clothes and keeps reaching for his heart, again we see that she senses the truth. Pearl asks this question repeatedly throughout the story, and Hester's failure to answer tends to lead to escalating rage in her daughter. But now, we sense that Pearl actually knows why, just as Hester seems unwilling to fight any more against hiding them. As long as Dimmesdale hides the truth from Pearl, his scarlet letter will burn deeper into his skin. He has traded the love of a child for his own self-preservation. Hester, by choosing her child over the superficial acceptance of the town, has earned the right to cast off the letter, something she now disdains, for she has grown fond of it, perhaps because it afforded her not only freedom from the guilt of sin but a kind of freedom from the mores of an overly stringent society.
This passage from \"Conclusion\" in The Scarlet Letter is a statement of the moral directed to the reader by Hawthorne himself. After the scarlet letter A is revealed on the chest of the dying minister, speculation about it begins among the congregation. As narrator, the author refers to the hypocrisy of Dimmesdale which has haunted him and caused the greatest damage. Had the minister admitted his sin, then he could have prevented the vengeance of Chillingworth; and, had Hester been \"true,\" Dimmesdale would have been informed about the physician's intent toward him. But, all have been false.
Closely following the jailer into the dismal apartment appearedthat individual, of singular aspect, whose presence in the crowdhad been of such deep interest to the wearer of the scarlet letter.He was lodged in the prison, not as suspected of any offence,but as the most convenient and suitable mode of disposing ofhim, until the magistrates should have conferred with the Indiansagamores respecting his ransom. His name was announced asRoger Chillingworth. The jailer, after ushering him into theroom, remained a moment, marvelling at the comparative quietthat followed his entrance; for Hester Prynne had immediatelybecome as still as death, although the child continued to moan.
Hester Prynne, therefore, did not flee. On the outskirts of thetown, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinityto any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage. Ithad been built by an earlier settler, and abandoned because thesoil about it was too sterile for cultivation, while its comparativeremoteness put it out of the sphere of that social activitywhich already marked the habits of the emigrants. It stood onthe shore, looking across a basin of the sea at the forest-coveredhills, towards the west. A clump of scrubby trees, such as alone[94]grew on the peninsula, did not so much conceal the cottagefrom view, as seem to denote that here was some object whichwould fain have been, or at least ought to be, concealed. Inthis little, lonesome dwelling, with some slender means that shepossessed, and by the license of the magistrates, who still keptan inquisitorial watch over her, Hester established herself, withher infant child. A mystic shadow of suspicion immediatelyattached itself to the spot. Children, too young to comprehendwherefore this woman should be shut out from the sphereof human charities, would creep nigh enough to behold herplying her needle at the cottage-window, or standing in thedoorway, or laboring in her little garden, or coming forth alongthe pathway that led townward; and, discerning the scarletletter on her breast, would scamper off with a strange, contagiousfear.
But she said it with a hesitation that did not escape the acutenessof the child. Whether moved only by her ordinary freakishness,[117]or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up hersmall forefinger, and touched the scarlet letter.
Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same positionin which we beheld her during the earlier periods of herignominy. Years had come and gone. Pearl was now sevenyears old. Her mother, with the scarlet letter on her breast,glittering in its fantastic embroidery, had long been a familiarobject to the towns-people. As is apt to be the case when aperson stands out in any prominence before the community, and,at the same time, interferes neither with public nor individualinterests and convenience, a species of general regard had ultimatelygrown up in reference to Hester Prynne. It is to thecredit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness isbrought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love,unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritationof the original feeling of hostility. In this matter of HesterPrynne, there was neither irritation nor irksomeness. She neverbattled with the public, but submitted, uncomplainingly, to itsworst usage; she made no claim upon it, in requital for whatshe suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies. Then,also, the blameless purity of her life during all these years inwhich she had been set apart to infamy, was reckoned largelyin her favor. With nothing now to lose, in the sight of mankind,and with no hope, and seemingly no wish, of gaining anything,it could only be a genuine regard for virtue that hadbrought back the poor wanderer to its paths.
And yet they lingered. How dreary looked the forest-trackthat led backward to the settlement, where Hester Prynne musttake up again the burden of her ignominy, and the minister thehollow mockery of his good name! So they lingered an instantlonger. No golden light had ever been so precious as the gloomof this dark forest. Here, seen only by his eyes, the scarletletter need not burn into the bosom of the fallen woman!Here, seen only by her eyes, Arthur Dimmesdale, false to Godand man, might be, for one moment, true![241]
While Hester stood in that magic circle of ignominy, wherethe cunning cruelty of her sentence seemed to have fixed herforever, the admirable preacher was looking down from the[301]sacred pulpit upon an audience whose very inmost spirits hadyielded to his control. The sainted minister in the church!The woman of the scarlet letter in the market-place! Whatimagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise thatthe same scorching stigma was on them both!
After several years, Hester returns to her cottage and resumes wearing the scarlet letter. When she dies, she is buried near the grave of Dimmesdale, and they share a simple slate tombstone engraved with an escutcheon described as: \"On a field, sable, the letter A, gules\" (On a black background, the letter A in red\"). 153554b96e
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