Hester Prynne's Note-Making Study Notes
Note Taking
Note Making
Chapter 1: The Prison Door - Sin
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion of the site of a prison” (pg. 72)
Chapter 2: The Marketplace -Sin 78
“Goodwives”, said a hard-featured dame of fifty, “I’ll tell ye a piece of my mind. It would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and church-members in a good repute, should have the handling of such malfactresses as this Hester Prynne. What think ye, gossip? If the hussy stood up for judgement before us five, that are now here in a knot …show more content…
“She will be like a living sermon against sin, until the shameful letter is engraved on the tombstone. Yet it bothers me that her partner in wickedness does not stand beside her on the platform. But he will be known! He will be known! He will be known!” (pg.99)
Chapter 4: The Interview - Isolation
“I will pitch my tent here, at the edge of civilization. I have been a wanderer, cut off from mankind, but there is woman, a man, and a child to whom I am closely bound. Whether it’s through love or hate, right or wrong.” (pg.119)
Chapter 5: Hester at Her Needle - Isolation
“So Hester Prynne did not leave. On the outskirts of town, far from other houses, sat a small cottage. It had been built by an earlier settler but was abandoned because the surrounding soil was too sterile for planting and it was too remote. It stood on the shore, looking across the water at forest-covered hills to the west...The magistrates granted Hester a license-though they kept close watch on her- and so she took what money she had and settled with her infant child in this lonesome little home.” (pg.127)
Chapter 6: Pearl -Sin
“Pearl was born an outcast of an infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.” (pg,144)
Chapter 7: The Governor’s Hall …show more content…
Claiming that he suffered bad luck at sea and has been held captive by Indians in the south.
Chillingworth and Hester are both unhappy people. They both have secrets and are on the outskirts.
Hester was free to return to her birthplace but she decided to stay in this abandoned cottage, isolating herself from the town and everyone. Even with her success of her needlework, she feels alone.
Pearl is a product of her mother Hester and she be willed her mother’s traits. Pearl knows her place in the world and that she is different from the other children.”
More hypocrisy among the townspeople. They’ve shunned Hester and Pearl for the past three years, but suddenly care for Hester and the welfare of
Note Making
Chapter 1: The Prison Door - Sin
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion of the site of a prison” (pg. 72)
Chapter 2: The Marketplace -Sin 78
“Goodwives”, said a hard-featured dame of fifty, “I’ll tell ye a piece of my mind. It would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and church-members in a good repute, should have the handling of such malfactresses as this Hester Prynne. What think ye, gossip? If the hussy stood up for judgement before us five, that are now here in a knot …show more content…
“She will be like a living sermon against sin, until the shameful letter is engraved on the tombstone. Yet it bothers me that her partner in wickedness does not stand beside her on the platform. But he will be known! He will be known! He will be known!” (pg.99)
Chapter 4: The Interview - Isolation
“I will pitch my tent here, at the edge of civilization. I have been a wanderer, cut off from mankind, but there is woman, a man, and a child to whom I am closely bound. Whether it’s through love or hate, right or wrong.” (pg.119)
Chapter 5: Hester at Her Needle - Isolation
“So Hester Prynne did not leave. On the outskirts of town, far from other houses, sat a small cottage. It had been built by an earlier settler but was abandoned because the surrounding soil was too sterile for planting and it was too remote. It stood on the shore, looking across the water at forest-covered hills to the west...The magistrates granted Hester a license-though they kept close watch on her- and so she took what money she had and settled with her infant child in this lonesome little home.” (pg.127)
Chapter 6: Pearl -Sin
“Pearl was born an outcast of an infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.” (pg,144)
Chapter 7: The Governor’s Hall …show more content…
Claiming that he suffered bad luck at sea and has been held captive by Indians in the south.
Chillingworth and Hester are both unhappy people. They both have secrets and are on the outskirts.
Hester was free to return to her birthplace but she decided to stay in this abandoned cottage, isolating herself from the town and everyone. Even with her success of her needlework, she feels alone.
Pearl is a product of her mother Hester and she be willed her mother’s traits. Pearl knows her place in the world and that she is different from the other children.”
More hypocrisy among the townspeople. They’ve shunned Hester and Pearl for the past three years, but suddenly care for Hester and the welfare of