Why does Hester refuse Chillingworth's medicine early in the novel?
She thinks it may be poison.
100
"Oh father in Heaven, if thou art still my father, what is this being which i have brought into this world!"
Hester (about Pearl)
100
Where Hester met Dimmesdale to reveal Chillingworth's identity
the forest
100
His dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier, and his figue more misshapen.
Chillingworth
100
This item exists where only weeds grow.
the rose bush
200
The one occasion for which Hester is never asked to make clothing.
A wedding.
200
"... the sunshine does not love you! It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom..."
Pearl
200
"It has been built by an earlier settler, and abandoned, because the soil about it was too sterile for cultivation, while its comparative remoteness put it out of the sphere of that social activity which already marked the habits’ of the emigrants."
Hester's cottage
200
Pearl made this from sea weed.
a letter A
200
Example of a theme: Dimmesdale's health grows poor because of this.
Guilt
300
While staring at the suit of armor in the Governor's mansion, this is Hester's most prominent feature.
The scarlet letter
300
"Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall off of its own nature..."
Hester
300
"The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World."
the Prison
300
Pearl is startled to see her mother without this.
the scarlet letter
300
This object, seen at night, reminds Dimmesdale of his sin.
meteor
400
When outdoors, Pearl notices that this seems to avoid Hester.
Sunlight
400
"Of penance I have had enough! Of penitence I have had none!"
Dimmesdale
400
"Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and if I recollect right, a bunch of intermingled thunderbolts and barbed arrows in each claw."
the Custom House
400
Pearl becomes rich because of this event.
Chillingworth's death.
400
There is irony in this event, which occurs toward the end of the novel.
Dimmesdale's death
500
The adjective that the townspeople eventually assign to the A.
Able
500
"Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
Narrator
500
"It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston's earliest church, and appeared to be a fixture there."
the Scaffold
500
This obscure character is often associated with witchcraft.
Mistress Hibbins
500
An example of this theme is the way in which Hester becomes an outcast because of her mistake. It can also be seen in Speak and Monster.