The only light in the dark atmosphere is a rosebush growing by the prison door. ... Meanwhile, venerable Reverend Dimmesdale's body starts to waste away from a mysterious heart condition. ... He does this, however, in the pitch-black darkness of the night, so the situation is not exactly the same. ... "And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two. ... Dimmesdale clutches his heart instinctively and admits to Hester that he hat...

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• Grade Level: High School

The prison is described as a, "wooden jail...already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front." ... and places his hand over his heart. ... Chillingworth then laughs and says, "He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost; but I shall read it on his heart." ... Hawthorne puts it, "it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts." ... Hester's passion exists in the child's demeanor in the form of "flightiness of temper...and even some of the very cloud-sha...

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• Grade Level: High School