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Immobility / Mutability
Immobility
The Interview
- Nor did his demeanour change
Pearl
- it lacked reference and adaptation to the world
- without undergoing any outward change
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- we will even leave the matter as it now stands
- leave the mystery as we find it
- I must tarry at home
The Minister’s Vigil
- remain painted on the darkness, after the meteor had vanished,
Another View of Hester
- retained their pristine
The Child at the Brook-Side
- “Children will not abide any, the slightest, change in the accustomed aspect of things that are daily before their eyes. Pearl misses something which she has always seen me wear!”
The Minister in a Maze
- There, indeed, was each former trace of the street, as he remembered it, and all the peculiarities of the houses, with the due multitude of gable-peaks, and a weathercock at every point where his memory suggested one.
- acquaintances whom he met, and all the well-known shapes of human life, about the little town. They looked neither older nor younger, now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on his feet to-day;
- It was the same town as heretofore;
- with the same perception
The Procession
- permanence
Mutability
The Market-Place
- transfigured the wearer
Hester at Her Needle
- convert the scene into
- as if emerging into another state of being
- assimilate itself with
- had converted
Pearl
- in this one child there were many children
- in any of her changes
- mutability
- various properties
- variety
- variety and arrangement
- flightiness
- neither mode of treatment possessed any calculable influence
- little Pearl might or might not be within its reach, in accordance with the caprice that ruled the moment
- so intelligent, yet so inexplicable, perverse, sometimes so malicious, but generally accompanied by a wild flow of spirits
- glimmering light that comes we know not whence, and goes we know not whither.
- it passed, as suddenly as it came
- failed to win the master-word that should control this new and incomprehensible intelligence.
- fitful caprice [?]
- multitude of imaginary personages, old and young
- little transformation
- vast variety of forms into which she threw her intellect, with no continuity
- state of preternatural activity,—soon sinking down, as if exhausted by so rapid and feverish a tide of life,—and succeeded by other shapes of a similar wild energy
- humorsome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.
The Governor’s Hall
- in another form
- all her conceptions assumed its form—had carefully wrought out the similitude
- Pearl was the one, as well as the other
- represent the scarlet letter in her appearance
- variety of
- many variations, suggested by the nature of his building-materials, diversity of climate, and a different mode of social life
- the exigencies of this new country had transformed Governor Bellingham into a soldier, as well as a statesman and ruler.
- represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance.
- imp who was seeking to mould itself into Pearl’s shape
- mobile
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- what a change had come over his features
- undergone a remarkable change
- transfigured
The Leech and His Patient
- processes by which weeds were converted into drugs of potency
- It was as if she had been made afresh, out of new elements
The Interior of a Heart
- of another character than it had previously been
- in many shapes
- transformed it into the veriest falsehood
The Minister’s Vigil
- another’s guilt might have seen another symbol in it.
- To his features, as to all other objects, the meteoric light imparted a new expression
- night-whimseys
Another View of Hester
- Knowing what this poor, fallen man had once been
- Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy
- Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love,
- Even the attractiveness of her person had undergone a similar change.
- It was a sad transformation, too, that her rich and luxuriant hair had either been cut off, or was so completely hidden by a cap
- Some attribute had departed from her
- She who has once been woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation.
- transfigured
- her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought
- essentially modified
- these preliminary reforms, until she herself shall have undergone a still mightier change
Hester and the Physician
- or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport
- what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.
- man’s faculty of transforming himself into a devil
- had effected such a transformation
- A mortal man, with once a human heart, has become a fiend for his especial torment!”
- transformed a wise and just man to a fiend!
Hester and Pearl
- deformed old figure
- every wholesome growth should be converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch?
- Such scenes had once appeared not otherwise than happy, but now, as viewed through the dismal medium of her subsequent life, they classed themselves among her ugliest remembrances.
- It showed Pearl in an unwonted aspect.
- and converted it into
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- all of God’s gifts that were the choicest have become the ministers of spiritual torment
- it was a dark transfiguration
A Flood of Sunshine
- transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold
- wood’s heart of mystery, which had become a mystery of joy
- became a nymph-child, or an infant dryad
The Child at the Brook-Side
- odd grimaces; of which, ever since her babyhood, she had possessed a singular variety, and could transform her mobile physiognomy into a series of different aspects, with a new mischief in them, each and all.
The Minister in a Maze
- As he drew near the town, he took an impression of change from the series of familiar objects that presented themselves.
- Not the less, however, came this importunately obtrusive sense of change. The same was true as regarded the acquaintances whom he met, and all the well-known shapes of human life, about the little town.
- it was impossible to describe in what respect they differed
- and yet the minister’s deepest sense seemed to inform him of their mutability. A similar impression struck him most remarkably, as he passed under the walls of his own church.
- in the various shapes which it assumed
- so sudden and important a change in the spectator of the familiar scene, that the intervening space of a single day had operated on his consciousness like the lapse of years. The minister’s own will, and Hester’s will, and the fate that grew between them, had wrought this transformation.
- but the same minister returned not from the forest.
- revolution in the sphere of thought and feeling
The New England Holiday
- in order to convert what had so long been agony into a kind of triumph
- so changed was Hester Prynne’s repute before the public
The Procession
- The change may be for good or ill, and is partly, perhaps, for both.
- converting it to spirit like itself
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- atmosphere which the preacher had converted into words of flame, and had burdened with the rich fragrance of his thought.
Conclusion
- Nothing was more remarkable than the change which took place
- may, unawares, have found their earthly stock of hatred and antipathy transmuted into golden love.
- all so changed
Innoncence and Guilt
Criminality
The Prison-Door
- crime
- condemned criminal
The Market-Place
- culprit
- transgressor
- malefactresses
- hussy
- offender
- culprit
- unhappy culprit
- poor culprit’s
The Leech and His Patient
- crime
- murder
The Interior of a Heart
- crime
The Minister’s Vigil
- crime? Crime
- malevolence
Another View of Hester
- crime
Hester and the Physician
- perpetration of his crime and thine
Hester and Pearl
- crime
- fouler offence
A Flood of Sunshine
- condemned culprit
Fear
The Market-Place
- wholesome fear
- shuddering
The Recognition
- Dreadful
- dreaded
- anguish
- half-frightened
- turmoil, the anguish
The Interview
- strongly marked apprehension
- shrink and shudder
- tremble
- dreading
- fear not for him
- shrinking
- beware
- Beware
- afraid
Hester at Her Needle
- strange, contagious fear
- it is to be feared
- new anguish
- innumerable throbs of anguish
- dread of children
- its own anguish
- dreadful agony
- shuddered
Pearl
- apprehension
- fearfully
- dreading
- fears
- scaring one another
- throbs of anguish
- shudder
The Governor’s Hall
- quake within them
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- feared
The Leech and His Patient
- fear
- shrank, with nervous dread
The Interior of a Heart
- we fear
- fear
- sudden fear
- fearfully
- anguish
- anguish
- anguish
The Minister’s Vigil
- something frightful
- anxiously
- crisis of terrible anxiety
- dread
- anguish
- trembling
- shiver
- shivers at him
- fearfully
Another View of Hester
- fearful doubt
- frightful
Hester and the Physician
- frightful
- shuddering
A Forest Walk
- partly that she dreaded
- afraid
- fearest
- fearing
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- anxiously
- shuddering, in mutual dread
- awe-stricken
- They were awe-stricken likewise at themselves
- with fear, and tremulously
- She conquered her fears
- shrinking within himself
- without fear
A Flood of Sunshine
- fear
- fearfully
- harrowed
- anguish
- afraid
- not to be afraid
The Child at the Brook-Side
- alarm
- dread
- thou needest not to be afraid
- dreads
- Fear nothing!
- tremor to my nerves
- naturally anxious
- throb of anguish
The Minister in a Maze
- absolutely trembled
- frightened
- no apprehension
- apprehending
The New England Holiday
- No fear
- fearful meaning
- anguish
The Procession
- seemed to fear
- dread inspired by Mistress Hibbins had doubled
- awe-stricken
- anguish
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- anxious
- anxiety
- anguish
- dreadful moment
- shuddered
- shuddered
- dreadful
- I fear! I fear!
Conclusion
- dreadful
Guilt
The Market-Place
- guilt
The Recognition
- guilty one
- human guilt
- guilty
- guilty
- guilty
Hester at Her Needle
- guilt
- guilty
Pearl
- guilty
- guiltiness
The Governor’s Hall
- guilt
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- guilt
The Leech
- guilty
The Leech and His Patient
- guilty
- guilty
- guilty
- guilty
- guilt
The Interior of a Heart
- guilty
- guilty conscience
The Minister’s Vigil
- guilt
- guilty platform
- guilty
- another’s guilt
Hester and the Physician
- guilt
A Flood of Sunshine
- guilt
- guilt
- guilt
The New England Holiday
- guilty
The Procession
- guilty
- guilt
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- guilt
- plea of guilty
Conclusion
- guilt
Torturer
The Market-Place
- prisoner’s
The Governor’s Hall
- enemies
The Leech and His Patient
- inimical
- he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared
The Interior of a Heart
- a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy
- to him, the Pitiless, to him, the Unforgiving!
- chief actor
- enemy
The Minister’s Vigil
- enemy
Another View of Hester
- secret enemy
- on whom he had so evidently set his gripe
Hester and the Physician
- that I was betraying it
- I have surely acted a false part by the only man to whom the power was left me to be true!
- And all, all, in the sight of his worst enemy!
- for his especial torment
- tortured
Hester and Pearl
- “He betrayed me! He has done me worse wrong than I did him!”
- torture
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- “You wrong yourself in this
- worst enemy
- enemy
- enemy
- injury for which she was responsible to this unhappy man
- lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one, whose purposes could not be other than malevolent
- cruel purpose
- not to cure by wholesome pain, but to disorganize and corrupt his spiritual being
- He will doubtless seek other means of satiating his dark passion.”
- enemy
A Flood of Sunshine
- inscrutable machinations of an enemy
- enemy
- foe
The Minister in a Maze
- bitterest enemy
The Procession
- tormented
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- tempter
- torture
- torture
Conclusion
- poisonous drugs
Vengeance
The Interview
- avenge
- vengeance, what could I do better for my object than to let thee live,—than to give thee medicines against all harm and peril of life,—so that this burning shame may still blaze upon thy bosom?”—
- I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee
The Interior of a Heart
- a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy
- the very man, to whom nothing else could so adequately pay the debt of vengeance!
- avenger
- the avenger had devoted himself
- revenge
Hester and the Physician
- direst revenge
- Why hast thou not avenged thyself on me?”
- “If that have not avenged me, I can do no more!”
- “It has avenged thee!”
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- revenge
- What will now be the course of his revenge?”
- his revenge
Conclusion
- had made the very principle of his life to consist in the pursuit and systematic exercise of revenge
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