Character Quotes
"Thou hast escaped me! Thou hast escaped me!"
Chillingworth
To utter by chattering or babbling
Forced to be publicly humiliated for three hours
Hester
This symbol streaked across the sky one night
A
Character that is trying to get in the way of the protagonist's goals
Antagonist
"Thou wast not bold! Thou wast not true! Thou wouldnst not promise to take my hand...tomorrow noontide!"
Pearl
animated gestures
gesticulation
Keeps his hand over his heart
Dimmesdale
Symbol used to portray Pearl, nature, beauty, and freedom even in confining circumstances
Rose
This type of character isn't given much of a description. We don't know a lot about them, they aren't developed, and they serve mostly as a background to the main, round characters.
"Where I worth to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport"
Hester
Talkativeness; chattiness; state of talking freely
loquacity
Mistress Hibbons
Repeating symbol that feeds into a main theme of the novel
Motif
In media res
"What little bird of scarlet plumage may this be?"
Reverend Wilson
inimical
Harmful;hostile;unfriendly
Elder reverend
Reverend Wilson
The scaffold is MOST likely a symbol of what?
punishment
The main idea, or lesson being taught in a story
Theme
"Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already"
Pearl
Wisdom; soundness of judgement
Governor of Salem
Governor Bellingham
The Reverend's hand over his heart throughout the novel is a motif that BEST supports what theme?
Secret sin can be fatel
Three types of conflict
Man vs man
man vs self
man vs nature
could also say: internal, external