Dimmesdale
Characterization: Veiled
Hester
Characterization: guiding
Text: "in Mr. Dimmesdale's
secret closet, under lock
and key, there was a
bloody scourge
Text: “It had shown him
where to set his foot,
while the light of the
earth was fast becoming
dim, and ere the light of
futurity could reach him.
In such emergencies,
Hester’s nature showed
itself warm and rich; a
wellspring of human
tenderness”
Symbolism/Analysis:
Dimmesdale is veiled
because he internalizes his
sin.
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hester is guiding because
she deals with the sin by
taking care of others
Chillingworth
Characterization:
Relentless, vengeful
Theme
Hawthrone’s
juxtaposition of
Hester,
Text: "Thou wilt not
Dimmesdale, and
reveal his name? Not the Chillingworth
less he is mine," resumed potrays the various
he, with a look of
ways in which
confidence, as if destiny
people handle their
were at one with him. "He sins
bears no letter of infamy
wrought into his garment,
as thou dost, but I shall
read it on his heart. Yet
fear not for him! Think
not that I shall interfere
with Heaven's own
method of retribution, or,
to my own loss, betray
him to the gripe of human
law. Neither do thou
imagine that I shall
contrive aught against his
life; no, nor against his
fame, if as I judge, he be a
man of fair repute. Let
him live! Let him hide
himself in outward
honour, if he may! Not
the less he shall be mine!"
Symbolism/Analysis:
Chillingworth is vengeful
and relentless because
he has devoted his entire
life to seeking revenge on
Dimmesdale
Characterization:Guilty
Text: "overcome with a
great horror of mind, as if
the universe were gazing
at a scarlet token on his
naked breast, right over
his heart. On that spot, in
very truth, there was, and
there had long been, the
gnawing and poisonous
tooth of bodily pain."
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthorne Juxstaposes
Characterization:
Persistent
Characterization:
Vengeful
Text: “God gave her into
my keeping,” repeated
Hester Prynne, raising her
voice almost to a shriek.
“I will not give her up!”
Text: "I have left thee to
the scarlet letter,"
replied Roger
Chillingworth. "If that
have not avenged me, I
can do no more!"
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthorne juxtaposes
the characters of Hester
and Chillingworth to
show how the motivation
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthorne juxtaposes
the characters of Hester
and Chillingworth to show
how the motivation of
Through the
juxtapositions of
Chillingwoth,
Dimmy, and Hester
Hawthorne
attempts to prove
his point that if one
lets something
influence their life
to much, it will
become their only
drive and only goal,
it will consume
them.
Dimmy and Hester to
exemplify the effects of
dealing with sin internally,
vs. externally.
Characterization:
Vulnerable
Text: “for some
unaccountable reason, as
Arthur Dimmesdale felt
the child’s eyes upon
himself, his hand- with
that gesture so habitual…”
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthorne juxtaposes
these characters because
he wants to show how
different each character is
and how the heart and the
mind responds negatively
to certain circumstances,
individually, but together
they respond positively
Characterization: Religious
Text: "I need no
medicine," said he.
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthore juxtaposes
Hester, Chillingworth, and
Dimmesdale to illustrate
one of humanities greatest
struggles, whether to
make decisions based on
head or on heart.
Characterization:guilty
Text: " I, your pastor,
whom you so reverence
of persistence changes
the nature of the actions
persistence changes the
nature of the actions
Characterization: Selfless
Characterization:
malicious
Text: “Except for the
small expenditure in the
decoration of her infant,
Hester bestowed all her
superfluous means in
charity, on wretches less
miserable than herself,
and who not
unfrequently insulted the
hand that fed them”
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthorne juxtaposes
the characters of Hester,
Chillingwoth, and
Dimmesdale to reveal the
consequences of sin and
revenge.
Text: “In a word, old
Roger Chillingworth was
a striking evidence of
man’s faculty of
transforming himself into
a devil…”
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthorne juxtaposes
the characters of Hester,
Chillingwoth, and
Dimmesdale to reveal
the consequences of sin
and revenge.
Characterization:
Balanced
Characterization:
Scientific
Text: “She had in her
nature a rich, voluptuous,
Oriental characteristic- a
taste for the gorgeously
beautiful, which, save in
the exquisite productions
of her needle, found
nothing else in all the
possibilities of her life to
exercise itself upon.”
Text: "As his studies, at a
previous period of his
life, had made him
extensively acquainted
with the medical science
of the day, it was as a
physician that he
presented himself, and as
such was cardially
recieved.'
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthore juxtaposes
Hester, Chillingworth, and
Dimmesdale to illustrate
one of humanities
greatest struggles,
whether to make
decisions based on head
or on heart.
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthore juxtaposes
Hester, Chillingworth,
and Dimmesdale to
illustrate one of
humanities greatest
struggles, whether to
make decisions based on
head or on heart.
Theme-y statement
Through the us eof
foils, Hawthorne
demonstrates the
negative response
of the heart and
mind individually to
sin versus the
positive response
when a balance is
found between the
two.
Hawthorne states
that one must face
their problems
mentally and
emotionally, and
by finding an equal
balance between
the two, life
becomes less
punishing.
Characterization:balanced Characterization:vengeful Through the use of
foils, Hawthorne
Text: "Her intellect and
Text: "Had a man seen
implies that people
heart had their home, as
old ROoer Chillingworth, who hide their
and trust, am utterly a
pollution and a lie."
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthorne juxtaposes
Hester, Dimmesdale, and
Chillingworth to illustrate
how people deal with sin
differently.
it were, in desert places,
where she roamed as
freely as the wild Indian
in his woods."
Symbolism/Analysis:
Hawthorne juxtaposes
Hester, Dimmesdale, and
Chillingworth to illustrate
how people deal with sin
differently.
at that moment of
ecstasy, he would have
had no need to ask how
Stan comports himself
when a precious human
soul is lost to heaven and
won into his kingdom."
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Hawthorne juxtaposes
Hester, Dimmesdale, and
Chillingworth to illustrate
how people deal with sin
differently.
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secrets tend to
suffer more then
those who let their
secrets be known.