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Purity / Sin (suite)

Sin / shame

The Prison-Door

infamy

The Market-Place

shame
go astray
shame
ignominy
ignominious
very ideal of ignominy
shame
taint of deepest sin
shame
disgrace
shame
shame

The Recognition

offences
punished
misguidance
sin
ignominious
shame
infamy
sin-born
erring woman’s heart
shame
vileness and blackness of your sin
the shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth.
poor sinner’s
pollution
fellow-sinner
shame
sin
open ignominy
transgress
sin, in all its branches
ignominious
shame

The Interview

offence
misbegotten
she had most deeply and irreparably injured.
hast fallen into the pit, or say rather, thou hast ascended to the pedestal of infamy
ignominy
shame
I have greatly wronged thee
We have wronged each other
betrayed
false and unnatural relation
the man lives who has wronged us both!
infamy
betray
wrong
betray me not!
dishonor
faithless

Hester at Her Needle

common infamy
ignominy
shame
sinful
sin
infamy
shame
sin
ignominy
daily shame
sinful
sin
sin
no genuine and stedfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.
sinful
shame
ignominious
sinned anew
sinned
sin
infamy
shame
sullied
sinner
loss of faith
sin

Pearl

sin
sinful
sin
dishonored
actual offences
erring [little risk of
sin
distracted
sin

The Governor’s Hall

ignominy
sins

The Elf-Child and the Minister

transgressions
disgrace
children of the Lord of Misrule
relics of Papistry
shame

The Elf-Child and the Minister

present depravity
sin
ignominy
deed of sin
unhallowed lust
shame
blacker depths of sin
sinful
sinful
sinful
sinful
profane

The Leech

ignominious
sin
Infamy
contagion of her dishonor
shame
sin
sins

The Leech and His Patient

corruption
sin
crime
unless I greatly err [!!!!!]
sinful brethren
stifling with his own polluted
murder
speckled and spotted with iniquity
take up the shame that rightfully belongs to them
unclean hands
irreverently
crime
sinfulness
offence

The Interior of a Heart

backward rush of sinful thoughts
shame
on a level with the lowest
sinful brotherhood of mankind
a pollution and a lie
vile, a viler companion of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an abomination, a thing of unimaginable iniquity
defiled
sinfulness
sin
shame
old, corrupted

The Minister’s Vigil

ignominy
culprits
gloomy night of sin
place of shame
transgressor
overwhelmed with shame
public shame

Another View of Hester

mutual crime
ignominy
infamy
sin
shame
that one sin
her mother’s lawless passion
abased by sin
ignominy

Hester and the Physician

thou hast been deeply wronged
Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion

Hester and Pearl

A Forest Walk

sins

The Pastor and His Parishioner

polluted
sin
vilest of all sinners
sin
shame
sinful
We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man’s revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!”
ignominy
sinful
unfaithful sentinel
shame

A Flood of Sunshine

Shame
transgressed one of the most sacred of them. But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
sinned
sinned
ignominy
infamy
unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless
sin-stained
shame
heathen Nature

The Child at the Brook-Side

shame

The Minister in a Maze

blasphemous suggestions
impiety
heathendom
he had yielded himself with deliberate choice, as he had never done before, to what he knew was deadly sin.
sin

The New England Holiday

They transgressed, without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour
depredations

The Procession

ashamed
ignominy
shame
ignominy

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

ignominious
in dishonor
infamy
heavy sin
sin-born child
let me make haste to take my shame upon me.”
full of sin
the one sinner of the world
sin and infamy
sinful world
sinner
“Thou, too, hast deeply sinned!”
sin
when we forgot our God,—when we violated our reverence each for the other’s soul,—
triumphant ignominy

Conclusion

ignominious
in the view of Infinite Purity, we are sinners all alike
false and sin-stained
taken up her long-forsaken shame
Here had been her sin
erring and sinful
stained with sin, bowed down with shame

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Stains / marks

The Prison-Door

the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains

The Market-Place

brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne’s forehead
“let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.”
marks and brands
action marked with
conceal a certain token
one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another
marked brow

The Recognition

unmistakable tokens
wear a mark of shame upon her bosom
letter be engraved upon her tombstone
scarlet token of infamy
evil within thee, and the sorrow without
too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off
symbol

The Interview

strongly marked apprehension
burning shame
bear about thy doom with thee
last quiet stab at the token of her shame
He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost; but I shall read it on his heart.
wear the token in thy sleep

Hester at Her Needle

the figure, the body, the reality of sin.
type of shame
some great and marked event
stainless maidenhood
torture of her daily shame
here was some object which would fain have been, or at least ought to be, concealed
marked by
betokened
had set a mark upon her
branded
branded it afresh into Hester’s soul
token
the spot never grew callous; it seemed, on the contrary, to grow more sensitive with daily torture
ignominious brand
if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s?
red infamy upon her breast
burning shame
They averred, that the symbol was not mere scarlet cloth, tinged in an earthly dye-pot, but was red-hot with infernal fire, and could be seen glowing all alight, whenever Hester Prynne walked abroad in the night-time. And we must needs say, it seared Hester’s bosom so deeply, that perhaps there was more truth in the rumor than our modern incredulity may be inclined to admit.
general symbol
O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol

Pearl

marked this woman’s sin by a scarlet letter
lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom, to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals
deep stains of crimson and gold
first object of which Pearl seemed to become aware was—shall we say it?—the scarlet letter on Hester’s bosom!
fatal token

The Governor’s Hall

irresistibly and inevitably reminded the beholder of the token which Hester Prynne was doomed to wear upon her bosom
as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain
in token that
scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life
emblem of her guilt and torture
glittering symbol in her bosom

The Elf-Child and the Minister

laying her finger on the red token
it is thy badge of shame
stain which that letter indicates
this badge hath taught me,—it daily teaches me,—it is teaching me at this moment,—lessons whereof my child may be the wiser and better, albeit they can profit nothing to myself.
thou mayest wear in thy bosom the pearl of great price
she is the scarlet letter
garb of the poor child, so forcibly reminding us of that red symbol which sears her bosom?
Therefore it is good for this poor, sinful woman that she hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care,—to be trained up by her to righteousness,—to remind her, at every moment, of her fall,—but yet to teach her, as it were by the Creator’s sacred pledge, that, if she bring the child to heaven, the child also will bring its parent thither!
marks of childish preference

The Leech

set up as a type of sin
marked

The Leech and His Patient

by type or emblem
Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered. Hester did not pluck them off.
that scarlet letter on her breast
be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is
the tokens of your aspect
“a sickness, a sore place, if we may so call it, in your spirit, hath immediately its appropriate manifestation in your bodily frame.
and thrust aside the vestment, that, hitherto, had always covered it even from the professional eye

The Interior of a Heart

pointing with their fingers at his breast
a token, implicitly to be relied on, of a deeper antipathy in the breast of the latter than he was willing to acknowledge to himself.
poison of one morbid spot was infecting his heart’s entire substance
burden, whatever it might be, of crime or anguish, beneath which it was his doom to totter. It kept him down, on a level with the lowest;
burdened with the black secret of his soul
pulpit which he defiled

The Minister’s Vigil

weather-stained with the storm or sunshine of seven long years
scarlet token on his naked breast
marked event
betokening
marked out

Another View of Hester

Elsewhere the token of sin, it was the taper of the sick-chamber. It had even thrown its gleam, in the sufferer’s hard extremity, across the verge of time. It had shown him where to set his foot, while the light of earth was fast becoming dim, and ere the light of futurity could reach him.
badge of shame
The letter was the symbol of her calling. Such helpfulness was found in her,—so much power to do, and power to sympathize,—that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification. They said that it meant Abel; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength.
look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin, for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.
embroidered badge
scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun’s bosom. It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness, which enabled her to walk securely amid all peril. Had she fallen among thieves, it would have kept her sale. It was 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.
The effect of the symbol—or rather, of the position in respect to society that was indicated by it—on the mind of Hester Prynne herself, was powerful and peculiar. All the light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered up by this red-hot brand, and had long ago fallen away, leaving a bare and harsh outline, which might have been repulsive, had she possessed friends or companions to be repelled by it. Even the attractiveness of her person had undergone a similar change.
She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known of it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatized by the scarlet letter.
betokened
The scarlet letter had not done its office.

Hester and the Physician

yonder scarlet letter might be taken off your bosom
“It lies not in the pleasure of the magistrates to take off this badge,” calmly replied Hester. “Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport.”
“Nay, then, wear it, if it suit you better,” rejoined he, “A woman must needs follow her own fancy, touching the adornment of her person. The letter is gayly embroidered, and shows right bravely on your bosom!”
Here was another ruin, the responsibility of which came partly home to her.
traces of advancing life
beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter
permitting the whole evil within him to be written on his features
He laid his finger on it, with a smile.
I,—whom the scarlet letter has disciplined to truth, though it be the truth of red-hot iron, entering into the soul,—nor do I perceive such advantage in his living any longer a life of ghastly emptiness

Hester and Pearl

What did it betoken? Had seven long years, under the torture of the scarlet letter, inflicted so much of misery, and wrought out no repentance?
ornament upon her bosom
whether Pearl really attached any meaning to the symbol
“Dost thou know, child, wherefore thy mother wears this letter?”
“It is for the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his heart!”
“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?”
marked propensity
“What does the letter mean, mother?—and why dost thou wear it?—and why does the minister keep his hand over his heart?”
In all the seven bygone years, Hester Prynne had never before been false to the symbol on her bosom. It may be that it was the talisman of a stern and severe, but yet a guardian spirit, who now forsook her; as recognizing that, in spite of his strict watch over her heart, some new evil had crept into it, or some old one had never been expelled.

A Forest Walk

One [sin] betokened by the scarlet letter
[the sunshine] is afraid of something on your bosom
I wear nothing on my bosom yet!”
“Will not it come of its own accord, when I am a woman grown?”
he sets his mark on their bosoms!
have his mark on them
scarlet letter was the Black Man’s mark on thee, and that it glows like a red flame
is this his mark
“Once in my life I met the Black Man!” said her mother. “This scarlet letter is his mark!”
traces
covered over
Black Man set his mark in that place? But why does he not wear it outside his bosom, as thou dost, mother?”

The Pastor and His Parishioner

wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! Mine burns in secret!
portion of him which the Devil claimed
his cheek rested on the scarlet letter
burden of her ignominy
the scarlet letter need not burn into the bosom of the fallen woman
wear without fear or shame

A Flood of Sunshine

sin-stained
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.
With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as if it had never been!”
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 stigma gone

The Child at the Brook-Side

symbol
she is right as regards this hateful token. I must bear its torture yet a little longer,—only a few days longer,—until we shall have left this region, and look back hither as to a land which we have dreamed of. The forest cannot hide it! The mid-ocean shall take it from my hand, and swallow it up for ever!”
took up the scarlet letter, and fastened it again into her bosom.
as she thus received back this deadly symbol from the hand of fate. She had flung it into infinite space!—she had drawn an hour’s free breath!—and here again was the scarlet misery, glittering on the old spot! So it ever is, whether thus typified or no, that an evil deed invests itself with the character of doom. Hester next gathered up the heavy tresses of her hair, and confined them beneath her cap. As if there were a withering spell in the sad letter, her beauty, the warmth and richness of her womanhood, departed, like fading sunshine; and a gray shadow seemed to fall across her.
now that she has her shame upon her
kissed the scarlet letter, too!

The Minister in a Maze

be not flung down there like a cast-off garment
stainless sanctity of her heart
“A good man’s prayers are golden recompense!” rejoined old Roger Chillingworth, as he took his leave. “Yea, they are the current gold coin of the New Jerusalem, with the King’s own mint-mark on them!”

The New England Holiday

attire of deer-skins marked them as belonging
scarlet letter brought her back from this twilight indistinctness, and revealed her under the moral aspect of its own illumination.
quench and hide for ever the symbol which ye have caused to burn on her bosom!”
Pearl, who was the gem on her mother’s unquiet bosom
wearest the scarlet letter
It was a forcible type of the moral solitude in which the scarlet letter enveloped its fated wearer
more by token

The Procession

token. We may all see it in the sunshine; and it glows like a red flame in the dark. Thou wearest it openly; so there need be no question about that.
signed and sealed, so shy of owning to the bond as is the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale
so that the mark shall be disclosed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world! What is that the minister seeks to hide, with his hand always over his heart?
fixed there by the centrifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired
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
her familiar shame
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.
same scorching stigma was on them both

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

scarlet letter still burning on her breast
there was the scarlet letter on her breast!
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!”
“God’s eye beheld it! The angels were for ever pointing at it! The Devil knew it well, and fretted it continually with the touch of his burning finger! But he hid it cunningly from men, and walked among you with the mien of a spirit, mournful, because so pure in a sinful world!—and sad, because he missed his heavenly kindred! Now, at the death-hour, he stands up before you! He bids you look again at Hester’s scarlet letter! He tells you, that, with all its mysterious horror, it is but the shadow of what he bears on his own breast, and that even this, his own red stigma, is no more than the type of what has seared his inmost heart! Stand any here that question God’s judgment on a sinner? Behold! Behold a dreadful witness of it!”
With a convulsive motion he tore away the ministerial band from before his breast. It was revealed!
now that the burden was removed
By giving me this burning torture to bear upon my breast! By sending yonder dark and terrible old man, to keep the torture always at red-heat!
agonies

Conclusion

on the breast of the unhappy minister, a SCARLET LETTER—the very semblance of that worn by Hester Prynne—imprinted in the flesh.
Some affirmed that the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge, had begun a course of penance,—which he afterwards, in so many futile methods, followed out,—by inflicting a hideous torture on himself. Others contended that the stigma had not been produced until a long time subsequent, when old Roger Chillingworth, being a potent necromancer, had caused it to appear, through the agency of magic and poisonous drugs. Others, again,—and those best able to appreciate the minister’s peculiar sensibility, and the wonderful operation of his spirit upon the body,—whispered their belief, that the awful symbol was the effect of the ever active tooth of remorse, gnawing from the inmost heart outwardly, and at last manifesting Heaven’s dreadful judgment by the visible presence of the letter. The reader may choose among these theories. We have thrown all the light we could acquire upon the portent, and would gladly, now that it has done its office, erase its deep print out of our own brain, where long meditation has fixed it in very undesirable distinctness.
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.
sin-stained creature of the dust
There were trifles, too, little ornaments, beautiful tokens of a continual remembrance
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.
woman stained with sin
bore a device

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