Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Ch 7-13)

The Scarlet Letter Is Taking Over

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/09/the_scarlet_letter_is_taking_o.html

p. 151 “She had witnessed the intense misery beneath which the minister struggled, or, to speak more accurately, had ceased to struggle.”

"Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility." (Hawthorne 145)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/09/hatred_vs_love.html

Pearl is Hester's Child! (ch.7-13)

" 'No, my little Pear!' said her mother. 'Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee' " (Hawthorne 95).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/09/no_sunshine_scarlet_letter_7-1.html

"Unknown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and intersets, to vanish our of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumor had long ago consigned him" (Hawthorne 108).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/09/erase_the_past.html

"Hester looked, by way of humoring the child; and she saw that, owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance. In truth, she seemed absolutely hidden behind it." (Hawthorne 97)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/09/scarlet_letter_7-13.html

"To his features, as to all other objects, the meteoric light imparted a new expression, or it might well be that the physician was not careful then, as all other times, to hide the malevolence with which he looked upon his victim." (141-42)

"Pearl, seeing the rose bushes, began to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified." (Hawthorne) p.98

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/09/el_266_ch_7-13_pearls_flower.html

"It was none the less a fact, however, that, in the eyes of the very men who spoke thus, the scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom" (147).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/09/are_you_serious.html

"No good can be acheived by them, no evil of the past be redeemed by better service (120). "The letter was a symbol of her calling" (146).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidWilbanks/2009/09/hey_man_nice_shot.html

"He gave her, in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She is my happiness! - she is my torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a million-fold the power of retribution for my sin? Ye shall not take her! I will die first!" (p.94)

Hawthorne just let Hester let it all out. No more lady like obedient behavior.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GladysMares/2009/09/the_secrets_come_out.html