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Nature / rigidity (suite)

Rigidity

The Prison-Door

• rule
• stern

The Market-Place

• grim rigidity
• early severity
• bitter-tempered
• same solemnity of demeanour
• mildest and the severest acts of public discipline
• as stern a dignity
• penal infliction
• hard-featured
• law
• hardest word
• grim and grisly presence
• whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law
• administer in its final and closest application
• allowed by the sumptuary regulations
• most iron-visaged
• grim beadle
• righteous Colony of the Massachusetts, where iniquity is dragged out
• stern-browed men and unkindly-visaged women
• penal machine
• as effectual an agent in the promotion of good citizenship, as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France.
• instrument of discipline
• stern
• severity
• repressed and overpowered by the solemn presence
• sombre and grave
• solemn mood
• all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful
• those steeple-crowned hats
• rude market-place

The Recognition

• severe
• land where iniquity is searched out, and punished in the sight of rulers and people
• extremity of our righteous law
• hard experience written in his wrinkles
• stern and tempered energies of manhood, and the sombre sagacity of age
• chief ruler
• authority
• rigid aspect
• wise and upright rulers
• more harshly
• sternly
• hard demeanour

The Interview

• just authority
• gripe of human law

Hester at Her Needle

• giant of stern features
• law
• license of the magistrates, who still kept an inquisitorial watch over her
• sable simplicity
• stern progenitors
• sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order
• grin and frown
• man’s hard law
• dreary old times

Pearl

• great law
• discipline
• far more rigid kind than now
• frown, the harsh rebuke, the frequent application of the rod
• Scriptural authority
• undue severity
• tender, but strict, control
• any other kind of discipline
• ruled
• harden her small features into a stern, unsympathizing look of discontent
• grim
• Puritanic nurture
• most intolerant

The Governor’s Hall

• cherishing the more rigid order of principles in religion and government
• pristine simplicity
• what passed for play with those sombre little urchins
• grave old Puritan ruler
• grown hard and durable
• ponderous
• sternness and severity
• harsh and intolerant criticism
• closely shaven
• rude and immature attempt
• hard

The Elf-Child and the Minister

• so rigid and severe
• however stern
• reproof
• naturally stern
• authority
• disciplined strictly
• stern
• warily
• thou must take heed to instruction
• due and stated examination
• tithing-men must take heed that she go both to school and to meeting

The Leech

• strict
• religious zeal
• guardianship
• iron
• church-discipline
• grimly

The Interior of a Heart

• sturdier texture of mind
• shrewd, hard, iron or granite understanding
• weary toil
• rigorously

The Minister’s Vigil

• iron-nerved
• strictness

Another View of Hester

• iron link
• bitter-hearted pauper
• iron framework of reasoning
• sour and rigid wrinkles
• stern
• peculiar severity
• stern tribunals
• hard and solemn trial

Hester and the Physician

• disciplined
• iron
• sternness

Hester and Pearl

• stern and severe
• strict

A Forest Walk

• hard, metallic
• iron clasps
• iron pen

The Pastor and His Parishioner

• sternly
• frowned
• frowned
• frowned
• frown
• iron men

A Flood of Sunshine

• stern
• stern
• stern

The New England Holiday

• stern
• grim
• appeared scarcely more grave
• severe and close application
• sternly repressed, not only by the rigid discipline of law, but by the general sentiment which gives law its vitality.
• inflexible gravity
• rigid
• starched
• stern
• rigid morality

The Procession

• grave

Conclusion

• sternest magistrate of that iron

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Scaffold

The Market-Place

• scaffold
• place appointed for her punishment
• a sort of scaffold
• In fact, this scaffold constituted a portion of a penal machine, which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely historical and traditionary among us, but was held, in the old time, to be as effectual an agent in the promotion of good citizenship, as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France. It was, in short, the platform of the pillory; and above it rose the framework of that instrument of discipline, so fashioned as to confine the human head in its tight grasp, and thus hold it up to the public gaze. The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.
• scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
• miserable eminence

The Recognition

• yonder scaffold
• doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory
• scaffold by her side
• Hester Prynne had been standing on her pedestal
• pedestal of shame
• ascend the scaffold
• about the scaffold
• pedestal of shame

The Interview

• ascended to the pedestal of infamy
• give thee a partner on thy pedestal

The Leech

• He resolved not to be pilloried beside her on her pedestal of shame

The Minister’s Vigil

• platform or scaffold, black and weather-stained with the storm or sunshine of seven long years, and foot-worn, too, with the tread of many culprits who had since ascended it, remained standing beneath the balcony of the meeting-house.
• platform
• standing on the scaffold
• scaffold
• the guilty platform
• doubted whether he should be able to descend the steps of the scaffold
• place of shame
• scaffold
• standing where Hester Prynne had stood!
• She silently ascended the steps, and stood on the platform
• old Roger Chillingworth, who stood at no great distance from the scaffold
• foot of the platform
• as he came down the pulpit-steps (même structure que pour scaffold)
• on the scaffold, where evil-doers are set up to public shame. Satan dropped it there

The New England Holiday

• When we stood with him on the scaffold yonder!
• on the platform of the pillory

The Procession

• she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory. It was in sufficient proximity to bring the whole sermon to her ears,
• at the foot of the scaffold.
• inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy. There was a sense within her,—too ill-defined to be made a thought, but weighing heavily on her mind,—that her whole orb of life, both before and after, was connected with this spot, as with the one point that gave it unity.

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

• Meanwhile, Hester Prynne was standing beside the scaffold of the pillory, with the scarlet letter still burning on her breast!
• he had come opposite the well-remembered and weather-darkened scaffold, where, long since, with all that dreary lapse of time between, Hester Prynne had encountered the world’s ignominious stare.
• He turned towards the scaffold
• Support me up yonder scaffold
• minister, leaning on Hester’s shoulder and supported by her arm around him, approach the scaffold, and ascend its steps;
• “there was no one place so secret,—no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,—save on this very scaffold!”
• I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood
• Then, down he sank upon the scaffold!

Conclusion

• on the scaffold

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Wilderness

The Prison-Door P. 35

• wild rose-bush
• stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it

The Market-Place

• idle and vagrant Indian […]riotous
• shadow of the forest
• wild and picturesque peculiarity
• roughly hewn street of a little town, on the edge of the Western wilderness

The Recognition

• An Indian, in his native garb, was standing there; but the red men were not so infrequent visitors of the English settlements,
• stranger
• savage companion
• stranger, and have been a wanderer
• held in bonds among the heathen-folk, to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian, to be redeemed out of my captivity.
• troubles and sojourn in the wilderness
• stranger
• stranger
• Indian attendant
• stranger
• wild forest-land
• faculties of animal life remained entire

The Interview

• savage people could teach
• forest
• Indian sagamores respecting his ransom
• so familiar, and yet so strange
• Wilderness […] recipe that an Indian taught me
• vast and dismal forest
• not so wild

Hester at Her Needle

• dark, inscrutable forest […] wildness of her nature might assimilate itself with a people whose customs and life were alien from the law that had condemned her
• forest-land, still so uncongenial […] Hester Prynne’s wild
• forest-covered hills, towards the west
• clump of scrubby trees
• strangers

Pearl

• dark and wild peculiarity
• wild-flower prettiness
• wild, desperate, defiant mood
• wild flow of spirits
• Wild […] eyes
• taking scalps in a sham-fight with the Indians
• sound of a witch’s anathemas in some unknown tongue.
• something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child
• wild energy
• wild-flowers
• Pearl’s wild eyes

The Elf-Child and the Minister

• wild, tropical bird
• bush of wild roses
• wild and singular appeal […] provoked her to little less than madness
• wild and flighty little elf
• in the forest
• into the forest

The Leech

• just emerging from the perilous wilderness
• properties of native herbs and roots
• Nature’s boon to the untutored savage
• wilderness
• Indian captivity
• incantations of the savage priests […] powerful enchanters, often performing seemingly miraculous cures by their skill in the black art

The Leech and His Patient

• strong animal nature
• clear, wild laughter
• prickly burrs from a tall burdock
• He hath done a wild thing ere now
• wild look

The Minister’s Vigil

• fierce and savage strength
• excursions into the forest
• twigs of the forest clinging to her skirts
• Indian warfare

Another View of Hester

• reported, and believed by many, that an Indian had drawn his arrow against the badge, and that the missile struck it, but fell harmless to the ground.
• wild and ghastly scenery all around her

Hester and Pearl

• it grieved her to have done harm to a little being that was as wild as the sea-breeze, or as wild as Pearl herself.
• wild and capricious character
• passion, once so wild

A Forest Walk

• he had gone, the day before, to visit the Apostle Eliot, among his Indian converts
• primeval forest
• moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering
• reflex of the wild energy

The Pastor and His Parishioner

• Deeper it goes, and deeper, into the wilderness
• red men
• venture into the wide, strange, difficult world

A Flood of Sunshine

• She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.
• Indian
• stern and wild ones
• wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region
• wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth
• wild flavor
• small denizens of the wilderness
• wild things
• kindred wildness in the human child

The Child at the Brook-Side

• how strangely beautiful she looks, with those wild flowers in her hair!
• bright, wild eyes
• wild outbreak
• wildly gesticulating

The Minister in a Maze

• wilds of New England
• Indian wigwam
• The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more uncouth with its rude natural obstacles, and less trodden by the foot of man, than he remembered it on his outward journey.
• strange, wild, wicked thing
• as if the travel through the wilderness had been too sore for you.

The New England Holiday

• many rough figures, whose attire of deer-skins marked them as belonging to some of the forest settlements, which surrounded the little metropolis of the colony.
• shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music
• strange people, and Indians among them, and sailors!
• diversity of hue. A party of Indians—in their savage finery of curiously embroidered deer-skin robes, wampum-belts, red and yellow ochre, and feathers, and armed with the bow and arrow and stone-headed spear—
• Nor, wild as were these painted barbarians, were they the wildest feature of the scene. This distinction could more justly be claimed by some mariners
• They were rough-looking desperadoes, with sun-blackened faces, and an immensity of beard; their wide short trousers were confined about the waist by belts, often clasped with a rough plate of gold, and sustaining always a long knife, and, in some instances, a sword. From beneath their broad-brimmed hats of palm-leaf, gleamed eyes which, even in good nature and merriment, had a kind of animal ferocity. They transgressed, without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour that were binding on all others; smoking tobacco under the beadle’s very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing, at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitæ from pocket-flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.

The Procession

• Indian powwow or a Lapland wizard changing hands with us
• no leaf of the wild garlands
• She ran and looked the wild Indian in the face; and he grew conscious of a nature wilder than his own.
• group of mariners, the swarthy-cheeked wild men of the ocean, as the Indians were of the land;
• sunburnt and desperado-looking faces into the ring. Even the Indians were affected

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

• wilderness
• wild infant

Conclusion

• mingled her wild blood
• her wild, rich nature

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Wood

The Prison-Door P. 35

• wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak
• wooden jail
• oaken door
• fall of the gigantic pines and oaks

The Market-Place

• iron-clamped oaken door
• contrivance of wood and iron
• of wooden steps

The Governor’s Hall

• large wooden house
• wooden shutters
• oaken flowers
• oaken panels

The Interior of a Heart

• he could discern substances through their misty lack of substance, and convince himself that they were not solid in their nature, like yonder table of carved oak

The Minister’s Vigil

• arched door of oak, with an iron knocker, and a rough log for the door-step

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