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in the beginning of chapter four PG 147
"hester..water"before the evil figure of chillingworth, we see the purity and beuty of the "elf", the innocence of the little girl that plays with her very reflection.
in constrast, the deformed, ugly and evil physician.

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in chapter 14
we see how hester tries to save the man she loved. loves?
after the scaffold, she understands how much Arthur needs her, and the only help she can think of for help is talk to R.C., which gets even more crazy to the couple after the conversation. In his last sentence (pg 152)  he repeats more than once "dark" and talks about darkness, blaming Hester as the cause of his behavior against Dimmesdale.

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the 13 chapter offers an overview over Hester, and what an incredible woman she is. Her behiavior, the very A developed her moral skills such as charity and kindness. not that she was not before, but the entire thing made Hester almost a holy person. the glow around the A seems almost halo around a saint's head.

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pg 143, L12
"she was... transfigured"
we can see the onniscent point of view from the last sentence, that says "we'll see.. afterwards", maybe meaning that she would actually be.
besides, these lines might indicate that the public opinion was changing because of her behavior in the community.

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the gray bearded sexton met him, holding up a black glove, which the minister recognized as his own. "it was found.... to cover it!" page 138, L 22
The glove that dropped from the hand of the minister and that has been FOUND on the SCAFFOLD makes the sexton say that it was impossible that such a holy person was on that scaffold, so he assigns this fact to Satan, adding that a pure "hand" doesn't need to cover anything. This makes things even worse, firt of all because the minister knows that he's not pure, and he indeed needs "a glove" to cover his hand- being sinner, and the refering to Satan might indicate malignancy of the sin itself.

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Acquiscence
She usually nodded to acquiscence to what people asked

Abstinence
The abstinence from marriage is required to catholic priests.

sents.

the mother admonished the kid because of his hyperactivity

the abstract humorism of the comedian was not so fun since it was too complicated.

sentence.s.

aesthetic  -
the aesthetic was an important deal among Greeks.

aggrandizement -
the aggrandizement of the small rustic house is very expensive.

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Why everyone comes back from the death of the Governor? Is his death a symbol? A symbol of the end of Dimmesdale's cowardness? It can't be, cause the man doesn't agree in holding her hand. But then, why eveyone comes from there? And why does Mr Wilson do not turn his head toward him?

new senteces.

affinity
The affinity among the team was great.
aberration
the aberration of human actions never ends.

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"It came to pass, not long after the scene above recorded, that the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, noon-day, and entirely UNAWARES, fell into a DEEP, DEEP slumber, sitting in his chair, with a large black-letter volume open before him on the table.
 It must have been a work of vast ability in the somniferous school of literature."


The medicines prescribed seem to be a little aggressive on the priest, and something in H.'s words gives us the sensation that R.C. was trying to make his patient deeply asleep, to find something hidden in HIS bosom.. as we'll see in the following paragraph. He actually achieved his goal.

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   "They mostly do," said the clergyman, griping hard at his breast, as if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain.

the motif. The two are "indirectly" talking about  Mr D.'s secret, thing that makes him touch his heart, maybe not completely for real pain, but for trying to push back or just caressing the wound caused by his silence.

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He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.

The figured used to link a jewel, a dead mean, and the bosom is probabily just a metaphor, composed by symbols and figures.
it seems that R.C. is looking for something VALUABLE (jewel) that was on a DEAD MAN (dead as: become hypocritical- lost his values, also because of his physical conditions)'s BOSOM (the place where the scarlet letter is).
so, R.C. seems to be looking for the valuable secret hidden beyond the scarlet letter on her wife's bosom.

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"in which every remedy contained a multitude of far-fetched and heterogeneous ingredients, as elaborately compounded as if the proposed result had been the Elixir of Life."

the studies R.C. took up were linked to cure, since he was a doctor. But this line tells us something mysterious and sinister about his job: the comparison between his "benefic" potions and the Elixir of Life  remindes us alchemy, a science considered evil, which seems here the way he uses to cure people.

we write sentences

he advocated his wife's cause using all the effort he could.

the acclaimed premiere was as fantantis as they thought it would have been.

voc

advocate (Verb & Noun) - to defend somebody //  a lawyer
acclaim (verb) - praise enthusiastically and public
Affinity (noun) - Connection to another person / object
Aberration (noun) - a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome
Aesthetic (adjective) - beautiful
Abstinence (Noun) - chastity, not to do something specific
Aggrandizement (Noun) - Exaggeration
Admonish (verb) - to urge
Abstract (Noun) - general, generally
Acquisce (verb) - to endure, to agree, to suffer

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"At this wild and singular appeal, which indicated that Hester Prynne's situation had provoked her to little less than madness, the young minister at once came forward, pale, and holding his hand over his heart, as was his custom whenever his peculiarly nervous temperament was thrown into agitation. "
the minister understood wanted of course to help Hester in keeping her daughter, and his excessive reaction, as we can understand, or anyway his "agitation" lets us understand that the response to Hester's demand is not just a priest's duty, but there is something more.
 
"He looked now more careworn and emaciated than as we described him at the scene of Hester's public ignominy; and whether it were his failing health, OR WHATEVER THE CAUSE MIGHT BE, his large dark eyes had a world of pain in their troubled and melancholy depth."
Here H., taking again a few words to link with the previous paragraph, talking again of a different element in his normal temperament, is telling us that there is something more besides a priest's love for his follower.

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"The impression made by his aspect.. their grasp."
this shows the great controversy of Puritans: if they confessed in poverty, in a life without any enjoyment, even laugh (considered evil), why would one of the main leader of Puritans have lived a life so "fun"? H. shows how hypocritical were puritans in one paragraph.

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"Without further adventure.. dusky chambers. Then, however...there was the freshness of the passing year on its exterior, and the cheerfulness, gleaming forth from the sunny windows, of a human habitation, into which death had never entered."
"then however" indicates the strong comparison between what now is the building, how it would be considered, old, passed, like the puritan mentality BUT in that time it was an important one, as the main way of thinking was the puritan one.
 SUNNY is an adjective positioned in a strange context. Puritans have always been described by H. as close minded people, linked to the uglyness, cold, dark, extremely ortodox.
Then why this very building had "a very cheery aspect" "It was further decorated ...for the admiration of after times."
we  understand that this building is different, maybe like the person who lives inside that?
For  instance, this character could be different from the other puritans because it will give a chance to Hester to keep her child and the building is just a symbol of its diversity- contrast with the puritan? (example: puritans- dark colors, building-colorful)

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Pearl does not like other children, and H. underlines the extreme aggressive behavior of this one child. But the dislike for them seems justified, because of the description of those "the children of the Puritans looked up from their play,... or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins... and spoke gravely one to another." they are described are children of PURITANS, remarking that they were almost evil because of their parents' tradition.

  "But Pearl, who was a dauntless child, after frowning, stamping her foot, and shaking her little hand with a variety of threatening gestures, suddenly made a rush at the knot of her enemies, and put them all to flight.
She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence, the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged ANGEL of judgment, whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation. She screamed and shouted, too, with a terrific volume of sound, which, doubtless, caused the hearts of the fugitives to quake within them."
why an angel? it must be a leif-motif, since it is the third, fourth time we find comparisons with angels.
Maybe her peculiar features are meant to be a good example for the others, she might be the person  which children should learn from,  and not a symbol of evill.