" What a strange, sad man is he!""said the child as if speaking partly to herself."In the dark night-time, he calls us to him. and holds thy hand and mine, as when we stood on with him on the scaffold yonder!......."
What this is saying is that Pearl is putting together the pieces of the puzzel to why Dimmesdale wont be seen with them in public but in the woods he has a different personality. Dimmesdale will claim them as his family when it is dark and no one can see them.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
journal 40 chapter 20 pg 189
" It was the same town as heretofore; but the same minister returned not from the forest"
What this is saying is that the events that had occurred in the forest had changed Dimmesdale, but the town while he was gone had not changed at all. Dimmesdale has changed because he is going to leave with Hester and Pearl and go to move to England and start a whole new life and not worry about what he was doing before.
What this is saying is that the events that had occurred in the forest had changed Dimmesdale, but the town while he was gone had not changed at all. Dimmesdale has changed because he is going to leave with Hester and Pearl and go to move to England and start a whole new life and not worry about what he was doing before.
journal 39 chapter 20 pg195
"I think to need no more of your drugs my kind physician, good though they be, and administered by a friendly hand"
What Dimmesdale is saying is that because he has figured out how to take care of his problems he does not need the drugs to help him cope with his secret.
What Dimmesdale is saying is that because he has figured out how to take care of his problems he does not need the drugs to help him cope with his secret.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Journal 38 Chapter 19 pg181
"It was strange, the way in which Pearl stood, looking so steadfastly at them through the dim medium of the forest-gloom; herself, meanwhile, all glorified with a ray of sunshine..." (181)
Pearl is standing on the side that the sun is shining down on where as Hester and Dimmesdale are standing on the side where it is dark and shadowy. This is because Hester and Dimmesdale have a secret that they are hiding from everybody, and Pearl is pure and has no secrets.
Pearl is standing on the side that the sun is shining down on where as Hester and Dimmesdale are standing on the side where it is dark and shadowy. This is because Hester and Dimmesdale have a secret that they are hiding from everybody, and Pearl is pure and has no secrets.
Journal 37 Chapter 19 pg182
"...this brook is the boundary between two worlds..." (182)
Hester and Pearl have had this world that they have had since the very beginning. Where before Pearl was born Hester and Dimmesdale had a world that they had created, and now Hester wants to bring Pearl into the world that Hester and Dimmesdale have created. The side of the brook that Pearl is on right now is the side of the world that Pearl grew up with, and if she crosses over she is saying yes to the world that Hester and Dimmesdale created.
Hester and Pearl have had this world that they have had since the very beginning. Where before Pearl was born Hester and Dimmesdale had a world that they had created, and now Hester wants to bring Pearl into the world that Hester and Dimmesdale have created. The side of the brook that Pearl is on right now is the side of the world that Pearl grew up with, and if she crosses over she is saying yes to the world that Hester and Dimmesdale created.
Journal 36 Chapter 18 pg178
"...the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the human child." (pg 178)
The creatures in the woods and the plants all like her, they treat her as family, they are not afraid of her, where as the animals are afraid of other people.
The creatures in the woods and the plants all like her, they treat her as family, they are not afraid of her, where as the animals are afraid of other people.
Journal 35 Chapter 18 pg 176
"With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as it had never been!" (176)
Hester is saying she is going to become a new person, she is not going to let anything from the past hold her back, for example the A. She is going to start a new life with Dimmesdale.
Hester is saying she is going to become a new person, she is not going to let anything from the past hold her back, for example the A. She is going to start a new life with Dimmesdale.
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