Kayla Triplett
Motifs

Night vs. Day

Evocative Names

Civilizations vs. the
Wilderness
Symbols

The Scarlet “A”

The Meteor

Pearl

The Rose Bush
Themes

Sin

Knowledge

Human Condition
Characters

Hester Prynne

Pearl

Chillingsworth

Dimmesdale
Foreshadowing

foreshadowing
is minimal, because
the symbols tend to
coincide temporally
with events,
enriching their
meaning rather than
anticipating their
occurrence.
Falling Action

Falling
action Depending on
one’s interpretation
of which scene
constitutes the book’s
“climax,” the falling
action is either the
course of events that
follow Chapter 12 or
the final reports on
Hester’s and Pearl’s
lives after the deaths
of Dimmesdale and
Chillingworth.
Point of View

point of view · The
narrator is omniscient,
because he analyzes the
characters and tells the
story in a way that shows
that he knows more about
the characters than they
know about themselves.
Yet, he is also a subjective
narrator, because he
voices his own
interpretations and
opinions of things. He is
clearly sympathetic to
Hester and Dimmesdale.