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Angel / Devil
Angel
The Recognition
- affected them like the speech of an angel
Hester at Her Needle
- angels
Pearl
- good
- worthy to have been brought forth in Eden; worthy to have been left there, to be the plaything of the angels, after the world’s first parents were driven out.
The Governor’s Hall
- some such half-fledged angel of judgment
The Interior of a Heart
- whose voice the angels might else have listened to and answered!
- now a group of shining angels, who flew upward heavily, as sorrow-laden, but grew more ethereal as they rose.
The Minister’s Vigil
- A mockery at which angels blushed and wept, while fiends rejoiced, with jeering laughter!
- a great red letter in the sky,—the letter A,—which we interpret to stand for Angel. For, as our good Governor Winthrop was made an angel this past night, it was doubtless held fit that there should be some notice thereof!”
A Flood of Sunshine
- O Hester, thou art my better angel!
The Procession
- imparted to him by angelic ministrations
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- it was as if an angel, in his passage to the skies, had shaken his bright wings over the people for an instant,—at once a shadow and a splendor,—and had shed down a shower of golden truths upon them.
- The angels were for ever pointing at it!
Conclusion
- placed him already among saints and angels
- The angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman, indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful; and wise; moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end!
Devil / Evil
The Market-Place
- most devilish characteristic
The Recognition
- evil doings
- evil
- open triumph over the evil within thee, and the sorrow without
The Interview
- woman hath been like a possessed one
- drive Satan out of her
- evil
- Black Man
Hester at Her Needle
- bad angel
- evil
- Fiend
- infernal
Pearl
- her deed had been evil
- imp of evil
- evil
- fiend-like
- evil spirit
- fiend
- little imp
- evil
- demon offspring
- foul and wicked
- hellish
- inauspicious origin
The Governor’s Hall
- demon origin
- imp
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- naughty
- Satan might else have sought to plunge her
- Black Man
- Black Man
- Satan’s snare
The Leech
- nether
- leech
- black art
- evil
- lower regions
- infernal
- haunted either by Satan himself, or Satan’s emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth. This diabolical agent
The Leech and His Patient
- evil
- evil inmates
- propagate a hellish breed
- imp altogether evil
- Black Man
- evil
- half the evil
- bodily evil
- Satan comports himself, when a precious human soul is lost to heaven, and won into his kingdom.
- Satan’s
The Interior of a Heart
- evil
- herd of diabolic shapes
The Minister’s Vigil
- fiends
- company of devils
- Satan
- fiends and night-hags
- evil
- arch-fiend
- evil-doers
- Satan
- scurrilous
- Satan
Another View of Hester
- wrong
- as perilous as demons
- child’s own nature had something wrong in it
- for ill…
- evil
- devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil’s office
- evil
Hester and the Physician
- which sought only evil, and found it
- fiend
- vilely wronged
- there was a fiend at his elbow!
- fiend
- the whole evil within him
- A fiend!
- evil
- fiend
- evil
- evil
- neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend’s office from his hands
Hester and Pearl
- evil purpose
- deleterious and malignant
- wickedness
- fouler
- naughty child
- taint of falsehood in them
- evil
- some new evil had crept into it, or some old one had never been expelled.
- mischief gleaming in her black eyes
A Forest Walk
- Black Man
- Black Man
- Black Man
- Black Man’s
- Black Man
- Black Man
- Black Man
- Black Man
- Black Man
- Black Man
- Satan
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- poison of his malignity, infecting all the air about him
- bad
- the portion of him which the Devil claimed
- evil
- evil
The Child at the Brook-Side
- foregone evil
- evil deed
- mischief
The Minister in a Maze
- wicked
- as the great enemy of souls
- Satan
- arch-fiend
- germ of evil
- Such was his sense of power over this virgin soul, trusting him as she did, that the minister felt potent to blight all the field of innocence with but one wicked look, and develop all its opposite with but a word.
- very wicked
- wickedness
- tarry blackguard
- dissolute
- a volley of good, round, solid, satisfactory, and heaven-defying oaths!
- am I given over utterly to the fiend? Did I make a contract with him in the forest, and sign it with my blood? And does he now summon me to its fulfilment, by suggesting the performance of every wickedness which his most foul imagination can conceive?”
- a fair reception from yonder potentate you wot of!”
- “Have I then sold myself,” […] “to the fiend
- has chosen for her prince and master
- whole brotherhood of bad ones
- Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy
- did but show its sympathy and fellowship with wicked mortals and the world of perverted spirits.
- wicked
- evil spirit. And so he did! It was old Roger Chillingworth
- foul
The Procession
- the Evil One
- When the Black Man sees one of his own servants, signed and sealed
- a demon offspring
- black-a-visaged
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- evil
- fiend’s
- The Devil knew it well
Conclusion
- evil principle
- no more devil’s work
- it only remained for the unhumanized mortal to betake himself whither his Master would find him tasks enough, and pay him his wages duly.
- demon offspring
Haunting / Spectres
The Market-Place
- spirit
- spell
- imperfectly shaped and spectral images
- phantasmagoric forms
The Interview
- haunts
Hester at Her Needle
- haunt, ghost-like
- mystic shadow of suspicion
- ghost
Pearl
- little elf in the flight
- spell
- sprite
- fantastic sports
- elf
- bewildering and baffling spell
- spirit
- witchcraft [pas commence avant]
- witch’s
- spell
- witchcraft
- wonderful
- phantasmagoric
- visionary throng which she created
- sprite-like
- freakish, elfish cast
- spirit
- like a little elf
- wonderful
- spell
- spirit
- elfish child
The Governor’s Hall
- seemingly cabalistic figures and diagrams
- wonder
- ghosts
- elfish intelligence
- half mythological personage who rides through our early annals, seated on the back of a bull
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- swarm of these small apparitions
- naughty elfs or fairies
- vision
- Madness [il manque celles d’avant]
- wild and flighty little elf
- witchcraft
- “She needs no old woman’s broomstick to fly withal!”
- witch
- witch-lady
The Leech
- miraculous
- supernatural
- absolute miracle
- miraculous interposition
- supernaturally
- conjurer
- joining in the incantations of the savage priests
- powerful enchanters, often performing seemingly miraculous cures by their skill in the black art
- haunted
The Leech and His Patient
- eccentricities
- wonder
- trait of wonder in it!
The Interior of a Heart
- As at the waving of a magician’s wand, uprose a grisly phantom,—uprose a thousand phantoms
- accursed
- Ghost of a mother,—thinnest fantasy of a mother
- spectral thoughts
- discern substances through their misty lack of substance, and convince himself that they were not solid in their nature
The Minister’s Vigil
- witches
- ghost, evoked unseasonably
- solemn phantoms of his thought
- ghost
- witchcraft
- elvish
- appearances
- from a supernatural source
- a blazing spear, a sword of flame, a bow, or a sheaf of arrows, seen in the midnight sky, prefigured Indian warfare. Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light.
- appearance
- miraculous letter
- elfish child
- visionary
Another View of Hester
- magic
Hester and the Physician
- elf-
- visionary little maid
Hester and Pearl
- haunted men’s memories longer than they liked
- half-fantastic curiosity
- beckoning the phantom forth, and—as it declined to venture—
- either she or the image was unreal
- aspect of a little mermaid
- mermaid’s
- elfish child
A Forest Walk
- magic
- “How he haunts this forest
- common superstition
- Pluck up a spirit
- elf-child
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- haunted thus, by a spectre
- disembodied beings. Each a ghost, and awe-stricken at the other ghost!
- magnetic power
A Flood of Sunshine
- mystic
- haunted by strange phantoms of guilt
- magic circle
- like a bright-apparelled vision, in a sunbeam, which fell down upon her through an arch of boughs
- … now like a child’s spirit
The Child at the Brook-Side
- It is as if one of the fairies, whom we left in dear old England, had decked her out to meet us.”
- prophet or magician
- fitful and fantastic little elf
- elfish spirit, who, as the legends of our childhood taught us, is forbidden to cross a running stream?
- elf-child’s
- old witch, like Mistress Hibbins
- as in the wrinkled witch, it has a preternatural effect.
- spell
- freakish nature
The Minister in a Maze
- haunts and tempts me thus?”
- Mistress Hibbins, the reputed witch-lady
- witch
- witch-lady
- witch-lady
- haunted him
- Thus the night fled away, as if it were a winged steed, and he careering on it;
The New England Holiday
- no juggler, with his tricks of mimic witchcraft;
- magic
The Procession
- works of necromancy
- thou witch-baby
- mystic
- magic
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- high spell
- A spell was broken.
Conclusion
- through the agency of magic and poisonous drugs
- phantom
- elf-child
- spell
- elf-child
Denial / Penance
Denial
The Recognition
- deniest
Hester and the Physician
- Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion; neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend’s office from his hands
A Flood of Sunshine
- With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as if it had never been!”
The Minister in a Maze
- Denying himself this freak
Conclusion
- denied that there was any mark whatever on his breast
Penance
The Recognition
- repentance
- confession
- confess
- repentance
The Interview
- retribution
Hester at Her Needle
- idea of penance
- real sacrifice of enjoyment
- no genuine and stedfast penitence
- martyr
Pearl
- penance might best be wrought out by this unutterable pain
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- sacrifice
- too unreserved self-sacrifice to the labors and duties of the pastoral relation.
- what I have learned from this
- this badge hath taught me,—it daily teaches me,—it is teaching me at this moment,—lessons
- retribution
- retribution
The Leech
- fasts and vigils
The Leech and His Patient
- part of the retribution
- redeemed
- penitential self-abasement
- remorseful feelings
The Interior of a Heart
- remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance
- most acceptable sacrifice
- scourge
- had plied it on his own shoulders
- smiting so much the more pitilessly
- fast,—not, however, like them, in order to purify the body and render it the fitter medium of celestial illumination,—but rigorously, and until his knees trembled beneath him, as an act of penance.
- He kept vigils, likewise, night after night, sometimes in utter darkness
- constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify, himself
- lengthened vigils
The Minister’s Vigil
- wielding the bloody scourge
- Was it but the mockery of penitence? A mockery, indeed,
- mockery
- vain repentance
- vain show of expiation
Another View of Hester
- she had borne so long and dreary a penance
The scarlet letter had not done its office.
- vigil
- sacrifice
- redeem her error
Hester and the Physician
- Wilt thou yet purge it out of thee
- leave his further retribution
Hester and Pearl
- most to be repented of
- wrought out no repentance?
A Forest Walk
- penitent
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- redemption
- repented
- penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works
Of penance I have had enough! Of penitence there has been none!
- vigil
- sacrifice
- powerless even to repent
A Flood of Sunshine
- remorse
- expiating
The Minister in a Maze
- here, gone through fast and vigil, and come forth half alive; here, striven to pray; here, borne a hundred thousand agonies!
The New England Holiday
- a penance, and something which it was a stern religion to endure
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- repentance
Conclusion
- had begun a course of penance,—which he afterwards, in so many futile methods, followed out,—by inflicting a hideous torture on himself.
- here was yet to be her penitence
Punishment
The Market-Place
- corrected at the whipping-post
- punishment
- punishment
- punishment
- infliction of a legal sentence
The Recognition
- punished
- penalty
- for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom
- sentence
The Interview
- rebuke or threats of punishment
Hester at Her Needle
- condemned
- ordeal
- trial
- own trial
- condemnation
- condemned
- endless retribution
- earthly punishment
- forbidden sympathy
- undying, the ever-active sentence of the Puritan tribunal
- inflict
Pearl
- punished
- punishment
- scourging
- inflicted
The Governor’s Hall
- torture
- punish
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- she is my torture
- Pearl punishes me, too
- torture
- a pang, a sting, an ever-recurring agony
- remind her, at every moment, of her fall
The Leech
- pilloried
The Interior of a Heart
- punish
- tortured
- rebuke
- tortured him
The Minister’s Vigil
- punishment
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- “Let God punish!
The New England Holiday
- a fine or imprisonment, or perhaps an exhibition in the stocks
The Procession
- cunning cruelty of her sentence
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