Characters
This character is Hester Prynne's daughter.
Who is Pearl?
Pearl often throws these at the other children when they try to approach her.
What are stones?
Hester names her daughter Pearl to symbolize this.
What is that she came at a great price?
Hester and Pearl live here, away from the rest of the townspeole.
What is a cottage on the outskirts of town?
This is is Dimmesdale's attitude about life by chapter 17.
What is feeling depressed, guilty, and ready for death?
This man becomes obsessed with revenge on Dimmesdale.
Who is Roger Chillingsworth?
Hester embroiders this item for Governor Bellingham.
What are gloves?
This is what the sunlight in the forest symbolizes when it shines on Pearl but not Hester.
What is the purity and innocence of youth?
What is the forest?
This is how the townspeople view Reverend Dimmesdale as he becomes weaker.
What is as a saint who suffers for them?
This character struggles with guilt and makes himself ill.
Who is Arthur Dimmesdale?
This character makes a discovery about Dimmesdale while he is asleep in chapter 10.
Who is Roger Chillingworth?
Chillingworth's obsession with revenge is a symbol of this theme in the novel.
This event causes Dimmesdale to become weaker and more ill throughout the story.
What is his own guilt?
This is what Chillingworth says or thinks when he learns Dimmesdale is Pearl's father.
What is he becomes consumed with revenge?
Hester embroiders gloves for this official.
Who is Governor Bellingham?
In chapter 12, Dimmesdale stands here during his secret night vigil.
What is the scaffold?
This object on Hester's chest now stands for "Able."
What is the scarlet letter "A"?
This is how the Puritan children treat Pearl when they see her.
What is mocking and ostracizing her?
What is she feels like she can atone for her sin by staying?
This person was once married to Hester and goes by an assumed name.
Who is Roger Chillingworth?
This is what Hester considers doing with the scarlet letter when she meets Dimmesdale in the forest.
What is throwing it into the river?
The townspeople and Dimmesdale all saw this in the sky.
What is a meteor and a scarlet letter "A"?
Hester does this when she remove the scarlet letter in the forest.
What is throw it aside, which Pearl demands she put back on?
This is what Hester tells Pearl about the scarlet letter when Pearl asks her about it.
What is that Pearl will understand when she's older?