Below are the Scarlet Letter Quotations so you can finish up writing about the interesting thoughts that each one generates in your brain.
1. “We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.” (Hester)
2. “I have a strange fancy,” observed the sensitive minister, “that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy Pearl again…”
3. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers…
4. Just where she had paused the brook chanced to form a pool, so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure...This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself.
5. “Dost thou know thy mother now, child?” asked she, reproachfully, but with a subdued tone. “Wilt thou come across the brook and own thy mother, now that she has her shame upon her?”
6. Tempted by a dream of happiness, he [the minister] had yielded himself with deliberate choice, as he had never done before, to what he knew was a deadly sin. And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system.
7. “Madman, hold! What is your purpose?” whispered he [Chillingworth]. “Wave back that woman! Cast off this child! All shall be well! Do not blacken your fame and perish in dishonor! I can save you! Would you bring infamy on your sacred profession?”
8. Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken...as her tears fell upon her father’s cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother too, Pearl’s errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled.
