NH
TCH and 1-24
symbols/Motifs
Characters
Miscellaneous
100
Letter Nathaniel added to his surname.
What is W?
100
Specifically, where NH "finds" the parchment and frayed scarlet letter.
What is the second story of the custom house in the old surveyor's desk/rummaging through old papers.
100
Colors most often symbolic throughout the text.
What are red, black, and gold?
100
Does not want to be know as the relation of a sinful, adulterous woman.
Who is Cillingworth?
100
Hawthorne's progenitor at the custom house 80 years prior to NH serving in that job
Who is Surveyor Pue?
200
Although trying to distance himself from his stringent ancestors, this is the topic NH most often examines in his literature.
What are puritanism sin and a guilty conscience/internal truths?
200
The person who is penitent. The character who is most filled with penance.
Who is Hester/Dimmesdale?
200
Two things that are represented as the black flower of civilized society and moral evil.
What are prison door and weeds?
200
Chillingworth's attitude towards his patient the minister.
What is cautious and inquiring?
200
NH wrote this for his life-long friend who became a US president. What is this president's name?
What is a political biography?
300
The years that span NH's life.
What are 1804-1864?
300
The number of time Hester removes her letter throughout the course of the novel.
What is once?
300
Symbolizes public humiliation and public punishment for wrongdoing
What is the scaffold?
300
Possesses occult powers and knows of Hester and Dimmesdale's sin
Who is Mistress Hibbins?
300
the way people get their jobs working at the custom houses
What is by political appointment?
400
The name of the cemetery where NH is buried.
What is Sleepy Hallow Cemetery.
400
The way Chillingworth comes to be Dimmesdale's doctor and roommate.
The minister's health begins failing and the parishioners arrange their living together so Chill. can restore Dimm.'s health.
400
This is interpreted by the townspeople to mean an angel? Why?
What is the meteor in the sky for the death or passing of Governor Winthrop?
400
three adjectives describe Pearl
What are mischevious, angelic, devilish, elfish, capricious
400
Three transcendentalists who lived at the commune with NH
Who are Emerson, Thoreau, Sophia Peabody, or Bronson Alcott?
500
The pessimistic philosophy followed by NH.
What is Anti-transcendentalism?
500
Two reasons Hester remains in Boston after serving her sentence on the scaffold.
What are she wants to purge her guilt publicly and her lover, Pearl's father, is still there? She is drawn to the place of her sin.
500
This represents the devil's realm and uncivilized society.
What is the forest?
500
This character is ironic as both a sinner and a pious man.
Who is Dimmesdale?
500
One thing serves the two lovers at the novel's conclusion and what it looks like.
Hester and Dimmesdale share a tombstone the has a letter A engraved upon it.
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