The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more uncouth with its rude natural obstacles, and less trodden by the foot of man, than he remembered it on his outward journey. ... This sad and pathetic man suddenly, after a conversation with the woman that I believe he loves, embodies his former self and makes me feel happy and calls out to me that this scene is an important one. ... However easily Dimmesdale accomplishes this feat, Hawthorne makes mention of the fact that path itself poses no easier a route, but rather a "wilder, more uncouth [path] with rude natural obstacles less trodden by ...

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"In the afternoon of a certain summer's day, after Pearl grew big enough to run about, she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother's bosom; dancing up and down like a little elf whenever she hit the scarlet letter.""... Pearl notices that her mother is not wearing the letter on her bosom and will not obey her mother's call. ... Pearl also notices that Arthur Dimmesdale is holding his hand above his heart whenever she refuses to listen to her mother's call. ... But with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and honor!...

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Not long after this story was published, did women start rebelling against their so-called "position" in society. ... The women called her a "brazen hussy" and felt she was not taking the sentence seriously (51). ... It was "'modeled much after her own fancy, [and] seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity`" (52). ... He calls Hester up to the scaffold for her support in his revelation. ... (230) he calls. ...

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Knowing what only he and Hester know, the secret of theirs eats away at Dimmesdale's weakening and slowly killing him As the Puritans would call Dimmesdale a sinner, the Romantics level him as a human. ... The reflection of Pearl Prynne in the mirror uncovers her hard shell and brings out the loneliness, the innocent recklessness, and the wild beauty within her. ... Branching from that wild gift within Pearl, the wrath she is compelled to carry is also compared to the brook that flows beneath her. ...

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Despite considering themselves followers of Jesus Christ, the group tosses to the wind his teachings and his calls for mercy. ... Similarly, Young Goodman Brown includes a quote saying "The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. ...

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The Scarlet A Multiple meanings and discussion providing insight into the letter The letter "A" was to be worn as a punishment, to be worn in shame, to be worn as "adulteress." This may not have been clearly and directly stated to the reader, but throughout reading the book, you gather possible h...

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In Chapter 17 Hester tells Dimmesdale about his so-called friend "Thou hast long had such an enemy, and dwellest with him, under the same roof!"... But, with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and horror!" ...

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In The Scarlet Letter, the audience is "asked to consider things as symbolic; objects, persons and events are called signs rather than being silently presented as such" (Hawthorne 543). ... The letter "A" is the symbol that transformed Hester into what people called her "adulterer" to what was looked at with reverence and made her "able" (Hawthorne 164). ... Throughout the novel, Pearl is described to have very wild and unusual behavior. ...

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It is hard for her to do this because Pearl is a wild child and is a basically the scarlet letter in the flesh. ... She calls Dimmesdale a "strange sad man" because she is not allowed to greet him outside of the forest. ...

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