The Scarlet Letter Character Traits Task 1 Choose
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The Scarlet Letter Character Traits
Task #1: Choose three adjectives that best describe your character
Hester Beautiful Young Independent Strong Dignified Nurturing Skilled Desperate Lonely Fearful Tortured Secretive
Pearl Passionate Imaginative Violent Sadistic Destructive Evil-spirited Aggressive Troublesome Unloving Defiant Cold Stubborn Insensitive Disobedient
Roger Chillingworth Intelligent Perceptive Clever Skillful Well-read Persistent Vengeful Malicious Disfigured Sneaky/Mischievous Leech Treacherous
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale Young Respected Caring Sick Stressed Restless Guilty Weak
Task #2: • Find three quotes from the novel to illustrate those qualities • Write the quote and page number on chart
If you need help, try… Hester—pgs. 55; 86 -87 Pearl—pgs. 92 -97; 102 Roger Chillingworth—pgs. 62 -63; 76 -77; 80; 115; 124 Rev. Dimmesdale—pgs. 68 -69; 71; 112; 117; 123 -125
Task #3: • Share quotes with your group members.
Hester • “…she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty” (p. 167) • “None so self-devoted as Hester…” (p. 167) • “Hester’s nature showed itself warm and rich; a wellspring of human tenderness” (p. 167) • “She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy” (p. 167) • “It is our Hester, --the town’s own Hester, who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!” (p. 169)
Hester • “…the attractiveness of her person had undergone a similar change…a sad transformation too. . . her rich and luxuriant hair had either been cut off, or was so completely hidden by a cap” (p. 169 -170) • “…there seemed to be no longer anything in Hester’s face for Love to dwell upon…nothing…that Passion would ever dream of clasping in its embrace…” (p. 170) • “Standing alone in the world” (p. 170)
Pearl • “What, in Heaven’s name, is she? Is the imp altogether evil? Hath she afffections? ” (p. 138) • “Whether capable of good, I know not. ” (p. 139) • “The child…looking up to the window, with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. ” (p. 139) • “Detecting his emotion, Pearl clapped her little hands in the most extravagant ecstacy. ”(p. 139) • “There was witchcraft in little Pearl’s eyes, and her face…wore that naughty smile which made its expression frequently so elfish. ” (p. 160)
Pearl • “…picked up her apron full of pebbles…pelting them…one little gray bird…with a broken wing” (p. 185) • “But then the elf-child sighed, and gave up her sport; because it grieved her to have done harm to a little being that was as wild as the sea-breeze, or as wild as Pearl herself. ” (p. 185) • parkled, and prattled airily along her course. ’ (p. 195)
Pearl • “Pearl’s nature…had not the disease of sadness…” (p. 192) • “Pearl resembled the brook, inasmuch as the current of her life gushed from a well-spring as mysterious, and had flowed through scenes shadowed as heavily with gloom. But unlike the little stream, she danced and sparkled, and prattled airily along her course. ’ (p. 195)
Roger Chillingworth • “had been calm in temperament, kindly…a pure and upright man…but as he proceeded, a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce, though still calm, necessity seized the old man within its gripe…” (p. 133) • “He now dug into the poor clergyman’s heart, like a miner searching for gold” (p. 133) • “Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician’s eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire…” (p. 133 -134) • “…yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already. ” (p. 139)
Roger Chillingworth • “…quiet depth of malice…which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy. ” (p. 144) • “…was not careful then…to hide the malevolence with which he looked upon the victim” (p. 162) • “…the former aspect of an intellectual and studious man, calm and quiet, which…had altogether vanished, and been succeeded by an eager, searching, almost fierce, yet carefully guarded look” (p. 176) • “…a glare of red light out of his eyes; as if the old man’s soul were on fire” (p. 177) • “…old Roger Chillingworth…evidence of a man’s faculty of transforming himself into a devil…” (p. 177)
Rev. Dimmesdale • “…him suspicious of all mankind. Trusting no man as his friend…” (p. 135) • “The sensitive clergyman shrunk, with nervous dread, from the light missile…” (p. 139) • “…a bodily disease…be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ” (p. 141) • “…emaciated and white-cheeked minister…a sickness…in your spirit…” (p. 141) • “…all that guilty sorrow, hidden from the world” (p. 144) • “…achieved a brilliant popularity in his sacred office” (p. 146) • “His fame…on its upward slope” (p. 146)
Rev. Dimmesdale • “They deemed the young clergyman a miracle of holiness. ” (p. 148) • “…the agony with which this public veneration tortured him!” (p. 148) • “He longed to speak out…and tell the people what he was. ” (pg. 148) • “…I…am utterly a pollution and a lie” (p. 149) • “The saint on earth!” (p. 149) • “…he loathed his miserable self!” (p. 150) • “constant introspection” (p. 150)
Rev. Dimmesdale • “He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice…” (p. 153) • “…the young virgins who so idolized their minister…” (p. 157) • “erudite clergyman” (p. 162) • “His nerve seemed absolutely destroyed…his moral force…childish weakness” (p. 165)
Rev. Dimmesdale • “…the intense misery beneath which the minister struggled” (p. 173) • “He looked haggard and feeble…nerveless despondency” (p. 196) • “…listlessness in his gait; as if he saw no reason for taking one step farther” (p. 196) • “To Hester’s eye, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale exhibited no symptom of positive and vivacious suffering, except that…he kept his hand over his heart. ” (p. 196)
Simile/Metaphor • “…they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow…” (pg. 137) • “He now dug into the poor clergyman’s heart, like a miner searching for gold. ” (p. 133) • “Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician’s eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace…” (p. 133 -134) • “The soil where this dark miner was working had perchance shown indications that encouraged him. ” (p. 134)
Simile/Metaphor • “He groped along as stealthily, with as cautious a tread, and as wary an outlook, as a thief entering a chamber where a man lies only half asleep…” (p. 134) • “…with purpose to steal the very treasure which this man guards as the apple of his eye. ” (p. 134) • “Pearl looked as beautiful as the day…” (p. 138) • “…one of those persons whose sleep, ordinarily, is as light, as fitful, and as easily scared away, as a small bird hopping on a twig. ” (p. 143) • “He looked like a ghost…” (p. 154)
Simile/Metaphor • “those meteors…illuminated the dense medium of cloud betwixt the sky and earth. The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp” (p. 159) • “…a terrible machinery had been brought to bear, and was still operating, on Mr. Dimmesdale’s well-being and repose” (p. 165) • “…the child flew away like a bird…” (p. 175) • “…once so wild, and even yet neither dead nor asleep, but only imprisoned within the same tomblike heart? ” (p. 188)
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