The theme represented by the location of Hester's cottage.
What is isolation and loneliness?
100
Represents adultery and sin
What is the Scarlet Letter?
100
The city where the novel takes place
What is Boston?
200
"Once in my life I met ________-!" said her mother. "This scarlet letter is his mark!"
What is the Black Man?
200
Mistress Hibbins is this character's sister.
What is Gov. Bellingham?
200
Governor Bellingham's house.
What is Old World vs. New World or hypocrisy?
200
Pearl associates Chillingworth with this symbol of evil.
What is the Black Man or the devil?
200
In the center of the market place
What is the scaffold?
300
Time that book was published
What is 1850?
300
Despite all her goodwill to the poor and society in general, Hester was never called upon to use her extraordinary needlework skills for this occasion.
What is wedding/wedding veil?
300
Hester keeps the letter A on eventhough the council says she can remove it.
What is feminism, free will and identity?
300
Could represent the moral blossom or the relief of sins/judgment in the Puritan Society?
What is the rosebush?
300
a more natural free world; a get away
What is the forest for Hester and Dimmesdale?
400
Hester does not recognize Dimmesdale
What is when he gives his sermon at the end?
400
First awareness is of the Scarlet Letter
Who is Pearl?
400
Chillingworth becoming obsessed with Dimmesdale
What is the nature of evil?
400
The scaffold represents 1. and 2.
3.
Name two.
What is punishment, acknowledgement, and resolution?
400
The amount of time elapsed between the first and last scaffold scenes.
What is 7 years?
500
The holiday on which Puritan mood brightened and "appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction."
What is Election Day?
500
How does Chillingworth figure out who Dimmesdale is
What is guesses from Dimmesdale clutching his heart or seeing what is underneath his shirt?
500
Hester’s sin ostracizes her.
What is the role of sin, isolation/loneliness?
500
These are three representations of Dimmesdale's sin.
What are a mark upon his chest, and the gesture of keeping his hand upon his heart, the meteor, Pearl's appearance?
500
Where Hester and Chillingworth lived before the colonies.