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Purity / Sin

The Bible

The Recognition

the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting

The Interview

I know not Lethe nor Nepenthe
as old as Paracelsus

Hester at Her Needle

more intolerable to a woman’s heart than that which branded the brow of Cain
trusting to share the Sabbath smile of the Universal Father

Pearl

enjoined by Scriptural authority

The Elf-Child and the Minister

caused his head to look not a little like that of John the Baptist in a charger.
children of the Lord of Misrule
[But that was in the old land]
a worthy type of her of Babylon
if we deem it otherwise, do we not thereby say that the Heavenly Father, the Creator of all flesh, hath lightly recognized a deed of sin, and made of no account the distinction between unhallowed lust and holy love?
Satan’s snare

The Leech

with every successive Sabbath
golden pavements of the New Jerusalem
tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and, at all events, representing the Scriptural story of David and Bathsheba, and Nathan the Prophet
parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines
haunted either by Satan himself, or Satan’s emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth

The Leech and His Patient

ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan’s awful door-way in the hill-side, and quivered on the pilgrim’s face.
Holy Writ

The Interior of a Heart

gift that descended upon the chosen disciples, at Pentecost, in tongues of flame
Tongue of Flame
sanctity of Enoch
old, corrupted faith of Rome
that big, square, leather-bound and brazen-clasped volume of divinity.

The Pastor and His Parishioner

tongue of Pentecost
Satan laughs at it

The Minister in a Maze

truths of Scripture
warm, fragrant, heaven-breathing Gospel truth
Bible, in its rich old Hebrew, with Moses and the Prophets speaking to him, and God’s voice through all!
one hand on the Hebrew Scriptures
wondered that Heaven should see fit to transmit the grand and solemn music of its oracles through so foul an organ-pipe as he.

The Procession

chewing a Hebrew text of Scripture in his mouth

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

preacher had converted into words of flame
as mightily as the old prophets of Israel were constrained; only with this difference, that, whereas the Jewish seers had denounced judgments and ruin on their country, it was his mission to foretell a high and glorious destiny for the newly gathered people of the Lord.

Conclusion

he had made the manner of his death a parable, in order to impress on his admirers the mighty and mournful lesson, that, in the view of Infinite Purity, we are sinners all alike. It was to teach them, that the holiest amongst us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.

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Decay / Fall

The Prison-Door

fall

The Market-Place

time-worn
crumbling

The Recognition

strongly tempted to her fall
grievous fall

The Interview

decay
wrinkled
old
ruin
Decay

Hester at Her Needle

falling
sink beneath it
to be mildewed and moulder away

Pearl

torn and soiled

The Governor’s Hall

crumbling to decay

The Elf-Child and the Minister

gray beard
frost-bitten with more than autumnal age
old
old
fell on Hester Prynne
old
old
old
stumbled and fallen, amid the pitfalls of this world.
old
more careworn and emaciated
failing health
fall
old
old
old
fallen

The Leech

travel-worn
fallen
aged
begun to fail
decline
decay
dropping down
wasting itself away
old
old
aged
old

The Leech and His Patient

The Interior of a Heart

The Minister’s Vigil

fall upon him
old
old
old

Another View of Hester

fallen
Had she fallen among thieves
had long ago fallen away
ruin
or perhaps below it, by the revenge which he had stooped for.
stooping along
stooping posture

Hester and the Physician

it would fall away
old
old
another ruin
would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon
old
whose bane and ruin I have been
I shall stoop to implore thy mercy
wasted in thy nature
old

Hester and Pearl

old
went stooping away
old
really fall upon him
crooked figure of old Roger Chillingworth
old
ere they fell
old

A Forest Walk

old
old dame
old dame
fallen
old forest

The Pastor and His Parishioner

ruined
ruin
He sank down
fallen leaves
old
fallen tree
old
fallen woman
I sink down there
what a ruin has befallen thee!”
it could hardly hold itself erect
only under the fallen leaves
wreck and ruin

A Flood of Sunshine

once more to fall
ruined
down upon these forest-leaves
fallen
sinkings
down it fell
fallen
fell down upon her

The Child at the Brook-Side

a gray shadow seemed to fall across her.

The Minister in a Maze

So the minister had not fallen asleep [?]
old
old
old
old
old
old
old
aged
old hag
old
old
old
old

The New England Holiday

The Procession

Her spirit sank
fallen around the minister
ancient lady
old
old
sinking down
old
Hester’s strong, calm, stedfastly enduring spirit almost sank

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

into which they relapsed
ruin
sinks down
late-decaying
did not fall!
old
he must otherwise inevitably fall
old
out of some nether region
old
old
Old
down he sank
Old
old
sinking into

Conclusion

old
fallen woman
old
old
old
old and sunken
old and sunken

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Innocence

The Prison-Door

virgin

The Recognition

good
unadulterated sunshine
dewy purity of thought

The Interview

innocent
sinless conscience

Hester at Her Needle

pure
once been innocent
stainless maidenhood
purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which she had lost; more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom.
white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride
purity
purity

Pearl

innocent
untried
white and clear originally

The Elf-Child and the Minister

temporal and eternal welfare

The Leech

unspotted

The Leech and His Patient

pure
pure sentiments
pure as new-fallen snow

The Interior of a Heart

purity
virgins
white
white
purify

The Minister’s Vigil

young virgins
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it!”

Another View of Hester

pristine
effect of the cross on a nun’s bosom
blameless purity of her life

Hester and the Physician

innocent

Hester and Pearl

white
One little gray bird, with a white breast

The Pastor and His Parishioner

whatever of good capacity there originally was in me
purification

A Flood of Sunshine

he might have been supposed safer within the line of virtue

The Minister in a Maze

white
fair and pure as a lily that had bloomed in Paradise
stainless sanctity of her heart, which hung its snowy curtains
imparting to religion the warmth of love, and to love a religious purity.
this virgin soul
all the field of innocence

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

so pure

Conclusion

placed him already among saints and angels
in the view of Infinite Purity

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Letter A

The Market-Place

fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore
SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.
red letter
brave apparel
scarlet letter
ignominious letter on her breast
the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!
she turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real

The Recognition

ignominious letter
continual reference to the ignominious letter
scarlet letter

The Interview

scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester’s breast, as if it had been red-hot
scarlet letter

Hester at Her Needle

scarlet letter flaming on her breast
scarlet letter
curiously embroidered letter
only that one ornament,—the scarlet letter
scarlet letter
scarlet letter had endowed her with a new sense
scarlet letter
scarlet letter
scarlet letter

Pearl

scarlet letter
scarlet letter
letter
scarlet letter
scarlet letter
scarlet letter

The Governor’s Hall

scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life
as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain
scarlet letter
scarlet letter
scarlet letter
scarlet letter
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.
scarlet little figure before him

The Elf-Child and the Minister

wearer of the scarlet letter,
stain which that letter indicates
she is the scarlet letter
scarlet letter

The Leech and His Patient

large black-letter volume

The Interior of a Heart

scarlet letter

The Minister’s Vigil

embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom
immense letter,—the letter A,—marked out in lines of dull red light
miraculous letter
a great red letter in the sky,—the letter A,—

Another View of Hester

scarlet letter on her breast, glittering in its fantastic embroidery
embroidered letter
If they were resolute to accost her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on.
The scarlet letter had not done its office.

Hester and the Physician

The letter is gayly embroidered, and shows right bravely on your bosom!”
scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynne’s bosom.
beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter
scarlet letter
He laid his finger on it, with a smile.
I,—whom the scarlet letter has disciplined to truth

Hester and Pearl

torture of the scarlet letter
As the last touch to her mermaid’s garb, Pearl took some eel-grass, and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom, the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother’s. A letter,—the letter A,—but freshly green, instead of scarlet! The child bent her chin upon her breast, and contemplated this device with strange interest; even as if the one only thing for which she had been sent into the world was to make out its hidden import.
ornament upon her bosom
the green letter, and on thy childish bosom, has no purport. But dost thou know, my child, what this letter means which thy mother is doomed to wear?”
“Yes, mother,” said the child. “It is the great letter A. Thou hast taught it me in the horn-book.”
“Dost thou know, child, wherefore thy mother wears this letter?”
“What has the letter to do with any heart, save mine?”
what does this scarlet letter mean?—and why dost thou wear it on thy bosom?—and why does the minister keep his hand over his heart?”
scarlet letter
“What does the letter mean, mother?—and why dost thou wear it?—and why does the minister keep his hand over his heart?”
scarlet letter, I wear it for the sake of its gold thread
scarlet letter mean?
scarlet letter

A Forest Walk

One [sin] betokened by the scarlet letter
scarlet letter was the Black Man’s mark on thee, and that it glows like a red flame
“Once in my life I met the Black Man!” said her mother. “This scarlet letter is his mark!”

The Pastor and His Parishioner

discovered the scarlet letter
his cheek rested on the scarlet letter
the scarlet letter need not burn into the bosom of the fallen woman

A Flood of Sunshine

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves. The mystic token alighted on the hither verge of the stream. With a hand’s breadth farther flight it would have fallen into the water, and have given the little brook another woe to carry onward, besides the unintelligible tale which it still kept murmuring about. But there lay the embroidered letter, glittering like a lost jewel, which some ill-fated wanderer might pick up, and thenceforth be haunted by strange phantoms of guilt, sinkings of the heart, and unaccountable misfortune.

The Child at the Brook-Side

Pearl misses something which she has always seen me wear!”
took up the scarlet letter, and fastened it again into her bosom.
kissed the scarlet letter, too!

The Minister in a Maze

be not flung down there like a cast-off garment

The New England Holiday

scarlet letter brought her back from this twilight indistinctness, and revealed her under the moral aspect of its own illumination.
“Look your last on the scarlet letter and its wearer!”
wearest the scarlet letter
It was a forcible type of the moral solitude in which the scarlet letter enveloped its fated wearer

The Procession

wearer of the scarlet letter
scarlet letter
scarlet letter
purport of the scarlet letter
on Hester’s bosom; conceiving, perhaps, that the wearer of this brilliantly embroidered badge must needs be a personage of high dignity among her people.
their own interest in this worn-out subject languidly reviving itself, by sympathy with what they saw others feel
so soon to fling aside the burning letter, it had strangely become the centre of more remark
made to sear her breast more painfully, than at any time since the first day she put it on.
The woman of the scarlet letter

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

scarlet letter still burning on her breast
there was the scarlet letter on her breast!
woman of the scarlet letter
scarlet letter which Hester wears! Ye have all shuddered at it! Wherever her walk hath been,—wherever, so miserably burdened, she may have hoped to find repose,—it hath cast a lurid gleam of awe and horrible repugnance roundabout her. But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered!”
scarlet letter

Conclusion

on the breast of the unhappy minister, a SCARLET LETTER—the very semblance of that worn by Hester Prynne—imprinted in the flesh.
denied that there was any mark whatever on his breast, more than on a new-born infant’s. Neither, by their report, had his dying words acknowledged, nor even remotely implied, any, the slightest connection, on his part, with the guilt for which Hester Prynne had so long worn the scarlet letter.
scarlet letter
wearer of the scarlet letter
long enough to display a scarlet letter on her breast
scarlet letter
resumed the symbol
Never afterwards did it quit her bosom. But, in the lapse of the toilsome, thoughtful, and self-devoted years that made up Hester’s life, the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.
scarlet letter
“On a field, sable, the letter A, gules”

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Sacredness / Goodness

The Prison-Door

human virtue
sainted

The Market-Place

virtue
sacred image of sinless motherhood
godly
godly

The Recognition

wise and virtuous
godly
godly
godly

The Interview

right

Hester at Her Needle

honorable
venerable
model of piety and justice
antique reverence
earthly saint
sanctified

Pearl

blessed
childish virtues

The Governor’s Hall

capable of moral and religious growth
worshipful
honorable worship
godly
worship

The Elf-Child and the Minister

solemn miracle
venerable
Christian child
catechism
Christian nurture
pious home
not unkind
sacredness
good
heavenly
holy
blessing; for the one blessing
good
good
righteousness
sacred
worshipful
every good Christian man

The Leech

godly
saintly
reverential
spiritually devoted to him
devoted wife
reverential
good
sacredness
sacred
good
young divine
virtues
good
good
especial sanctity

The Leech and His Patient

capable of good
in his justice and wisdom, he shall see good

The Interior of a Heart

saint-like
sacred office
divine
true saintly fathers
holy personages
apostolic
miracle of holiness
sanctified
religious sentiment
religion
altar
holy
public veneration
divine
sacred
sanctity of Enoch
baptism
reverence and trust
reverence him
godly
saint
the one trusted friend

The Minister’s Vigil

saint-like
with a radiant halo, that glorified him
venerable
venerable
glorified saints
shrine for him in their white bosoms
worshipful
reverence
your reverence
your reverence
cherish a holy gratitude
good
good
good
good
good
good
good
good
good

Another View of Hester

right
genuine regard for virtue
good
kind of sacredness
… or good

Hester and the Physician

wise and godly man
worshipful
the only man to whom the power was left me to be true
Was I not, though you might deem me cold, nevertheless a man thoughtful for others, craving little for himself,—kind, true, just, and of constant, if not warm affections?
good that has been wasted in thy nature!
wise and just man
be once more human?
It is not so! There might be good for thee, and thee alone

A Forest Walk

holy whiteness

The Pastor and His Parishioner

people’s reverence
good
good
holy
good
this exemplary man
good old man
his venerable age, his upright and holy character, and his station in the Church
excellent and hoary-bearded deacon
sanctified old patriarchal deacon
most pious and exemplary old dame
good

The Minister in a Maze

almost worshipping respect
good
holy

The New England Holiday

so reputable a citizen as old Roger Chillingworth

The Procession

young and eminently distinguished divine
sacred edifice
white hair and venerable brow of age; on long-tried integrity; on solid wisdom and sad-colored experience
“Yonder divine man! That saint on earth
admirable
sacred pulpit
The sainted minister in the church!

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

whitest sanctity
so apotheosized by worshipping admirers
old and wise men, the holy ministers, and all that were eminent
venerable
miracle too high to be wrought for one so holy
your sacred profession
dignified and venerable rulers; to the holy ministers
holy

Conclusion

mankind’s spiritual good
how sacred

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