Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Ch 1-6)

Let's take a look at how Hester prepares herself... since red will undoubtedly come up in many future discussions...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/09/the_complexities_of_human_natu.html

The True Feelings Of Hester Prynne (ch.1-6)

Foreshadowing

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

""She hath good skill at her needle, that's certain," remarked one of the female spectators;"but did ever a woman, before this brazen hussy, contrive such a way of showing it! Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?"" (p. 47)

Still looking good in prison issues and an unattractive red letter, Hester Prynne was still making some ladies in the town jealous of her looks and making them speak out about her disrespect.

"..and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring..." (Hawthorne 90)

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

"Dreadful as it was, she was conscious of a shelter in the presence of these thousand witnesses" (Hawthorne 58)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/09/shelter_scarlett_letter_1-6.html

"...on one side of the portal and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in..." (Hawthorne 46)

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

"O Father in Heaven,-If Thou art still my Father,-what is this being which I have brought into the world!"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/09/scarlet_letter_1-6.html

"Once, this freakish, elfish cast came into the child's eyes, while Hester was looking at her own image in them, as mothersare fond of doing; and, suddenly, -for women in solitude, and with troubled hearts, are pestered with unaccountable delusions,-that she beheld, not on her own minature portrait, but another face, in the small black mirror of Pearl's eye." (Hawthorne)p.89

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/09/el_266_ch_1-6_pearls_eye.html

"Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone. It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side. But he will be known!--he will be known!--he will be known!" (59)

"But she named the infant "Pearl" as being of great price, -purchased with all she had,- her mother's only treasure" (81).

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

"When I feel that resononce, that "fat chord" that feels heavy yet sparkles with promise or portent, it almost always means the phrase, or whatever, is borrowed from somewhere else and promises special significance."

Outward guise of purity was but a lie" "there was nothing else so awful and so loathsome as this sense" (80). Chapters 1-6

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

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SarahDurham/2009/09/thanks_kayla.html

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

wow i feel like the only high schooler commenting on this. anyway at first i hated the story because i couldnt understand it but now that i have read it a second time and have gotten an explanation on it from my teacher ive come to like it. (but i dont love it)

"that it were wronging the very nature of woman to force her to lay open her heart's secret in such broad daylight and in the presence of so great a multitude" (pp 61)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/PeachesOstalaza/2009/09/nothing_is_ever_guarenteed.html