Respond to the following passages indicating who is involved in the event, how the event is important to the rising action of the plot and what symbolism Hawthorne uses to reveal meaning.
1. “It was one of those moments –which sometimes occur only at the interval of years when a man’s moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind’s eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.”
2. “Be it sin or no,” said Hester Prynne, bitterly as she gazed after him, “I hate the man! He betrayed me! He has done me worse wrong than I did him!”
3. “A letter–a letter A,–but freshly green, instead of scarlet!”
4. “It is the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his heart!”
5. “…of Pearl’s character there might be seen emerging–and good have been, from the very first–the steadfast principles of an unflinching courage,–an uncontrollable will,–a sturdy pride, which might be disciplined into self-respect–and a bitter scorn of many things, which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.”
6. “Mother,” said the little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom.”
7. “Once in my life I met the Black Man!” said the mother. “This scarlet letter is his mark!”
8. So speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves.”
9. “She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest.”
10. “I see the child, observed the minister. Yonder she is, standing in a streak of sunshine, a good way off, on the other side of the brook. So thou thinkest the child will love me?”
