Quote 5: "But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it." Chapter 5, pg. 73
- Human life’s are not perfect they always have “something hard” carrying on themselves, where a color to their life’s makes a difference.
Quote: "Throughout all, however, there was a trait of passion, a certain depth of hue....The child could not be made amenable to rules....The mother's impassioned state had been the medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant the rays of its moral life; and, however white and clear originally, they had taken the deep stains of crimson and gold, the fiery lustre, the black shadow, and the untempered light of the intervening substance. Above all, the warfare of Hester's spirit, at that epoch, was perpetuated in Pearl." Chapter 6, pg. …show more content…
She ask many questions that should not be answered. Hester in the other hand answers this question as a lie, like all the parents do nowadays to their children to keep them away from certain things. Her mother lied that the black man gave her the scarlet letter, where in really she did put the mark on her bosom.
Quote: "'I might have known it,' murmured he. 'I did know it!' Was not the secret told me, in the natural recoil of my heart, at the first sight of him, and as often as I have seen him? Why did I not understand? O Hester Prynne, thou little, little knowest all the horror of this thing! And the shame! - the indelicacy! - the horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! Woman, woman, thou art accountable for this! I cannot forgive thee!'" Chapter 17, pg. 178
- Dimmesdale suspicion ever Roger Chillingworth is finaly revealed. He cannot bear the thinking his mind is producing, thinking what might Roger Chillingworth do as an advantage over him. Make him confess? However he is angry at Hester because she hasn’t tell him anything of him.
Quote: "Dost thou think the child will be glad to know me." Chapter 18, pg.