Colonist and pioneer who organized Puritan religious groups and preached to them without being authorized to do so by any church authority. She was tried and excommunicated for championing the rights and dignity of women.
SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Page 1. Original Text Modern Text A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. A crowd of dreary-looking men and women stood outside of a heavy oak door studded with iron spikes. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front.
Did Hester ever love Chillingworth? What type of work does Chillingworth take on in New England? What does Dimmesdale believe he sees when the meteor lights up the night sky? How does Pearl react when she first sees her mother without the scarlet A? What makes Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale finally feel hope about their future? Why does Hester choose the forest to meet Dimmesdale and Chillingworth?
What does the last sentence of the novel mean? Society Empathy. Summary Chapters 1—2. Summary: Chapter 1: The Prison-Door This first chapter contains little in the way of action, instead setting the scene and introducing the first of many symbols that will come to dominate the story. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.
Notify me of new posts via email. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Search for:. The Red Thread. The Prison Door and More. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here From Adam and Eve on, man's inability to obey the rules of the society has been his downfall. The Puritan society is symbolized in the first chapter by the plot of weeds growing so profusely in front of the prison.
Nevertheless, nature also includes things of beauty, represented by the wild rosebush. The rosebush is a strong image developed by Hawthorne which, to the sophisticated reader, may sum up the whole work. First it is wild; that is, it is of nature, God given, or springing from the "footsteps of the sainted Anne Hutchinson. Much the same sort of descriptive analyses that can be written about the rosebush could be ascribed to the scarlet letter itself or to little Pearl or, perhaps, even to the act of love that produced them both.
Finally, the author points toward many of the images that are significant to an understanding of the novel. In this instance, he names the chapter "The Prison Door.
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