And over her grave, the infamy that she must carry thither would be her only monument” pg 66 “…that would hereafter be a woman,- at her, who had been innocent,-as the figure, the body, the realty of sin. This also shows their time period as well because women were somewhat portrayed as weak. This shows how Hester will become a general model of sin because of the one sin she committed. This showed me Hester’s husband’s intention: revenge, which may later on be a theme of the book.Ĭhapter 5: “She would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in which they might vivify and embody their images of a woman’s frailty and sinful passion,” pg 66 It also shows how they used this as an excuse to get people to confess the “crime” and how crimes and sins were intertwined.Ĭhapter 4: “…rejoined he, with a smile of dark and self-relying intelligence.” pg 62 This quote explains how they thought at his time period where confession of a sin will gain them salvation. This shows how the punishment made Hester feel and how it actually did affect her.Ĭhapter 3: “If they feelest it to be for the soul’s peace, and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be more effectual by salvation, I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer!” pg 56 “Not a stitch in that embroidered letter, but she has felt it in her heart.” pg 46
This also shows how much they cared of what others had thought of them. This quote shows us how in their time period being shamed was on the same scale of death. Chapter 2: “a penalty, which in our days, would refer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be interested with almost as strong a dignity as the punishment of death itself” pg 44
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