Altering Symbols
The Scarlet Letter was placed on Hester's chest to mean what word
What is "adulterer"?
These two were the bachelors of The Scarlet Letter
Who are Chillingworth and Dimmesdale?
This mean-spirited loner was revealed to be Hester's husband
Who is Chillingworth?
“Throughout them all, giving up her individuality, she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point" (Hawthorne 38).
Who is Hester?
The Scarlet Letter took place in this city south of Hawthorne's hometown
What is Boston?
As the novel progresses, the A may begin to signify this secular adjective
What is able?
Dimmesdale was sworn to celibacy as a result of this position that he held
What is priest?
The living embodiment of the Scarlet Letter
Who is Dimmesdale?
This group of people were explicitly described yelling names at Hester on the scaffold
Who are other women?
By the end of the novel, the Scarlet Letter may signify this entity of Biblical origin
What is "angel"?
The first name of Hester's "past" love, though she may have never loved them
What is Roger?
These two become brotherly through hatred
Who are Chillingworth and Dimmesdale?
"Her final employment was to gather sea-weed, of various kinds, and make herself a scarf, or mantle, and a head-dress, and thus assume the aspect of a little mermaid" (Hawthorne 86).
Who is Pearl?
The doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will
What is determinism?
Dimmesdale, Hester, and Mistress Hibbins all spend time in this motif for natural freedom
What is the forest?
The first name of Hester's "true" love
What is Arthur?
Mistress Hibbins' relation to the governor
What is sister?
"I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee. Between thee and me the scale hangs fairly balanced. But, Hester, the man lives who has wronged us both!" (Hawthorne 36).
Who is Chillingworth?
The tendency to sin innate in all human beings, held to be inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall
What is Original Sin?
This natural phenomenon simultaneously symbolizes Dimmesdale's sin and the Governor's virtue
What is a meteor?
The real last name of Dimmesdale
What is Dimmesdale?
Who is Satan?
“'Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest; and I well-nigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one'” (Hawthorne 113).
Mistress Hibbins
This medieval warpiece gave Hester a distorted reflection of herself in the Governor's mansion
What is a suit of armor?