Moment (Page #) 2 Quotations (Pages #s) Literary Device Connection/Significance
Chapter 6 – Pages 85-97 – (34-38%) This chapter basically goes into detail about the forbidden daughter of Hester whose name is Pearl. The first quotation is not from a scene, but rather just the author introducing you a bit more to Pearl. The author uses a metaphor in this first quotation on page 87 by comparing Pearl to a flower. The second quote is from an actual scene. During this time from on page 95, Pearl is running about and tossing flowers at the scarlet letter on her mother. Hester really worries about little Pearl, and why she is constantly acting so strange. This quote is a metaphor comparing Pearl to a witch, since they are not certain …show more content…
It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.” Page 48-48 (20-21%)
Chapter 6 – Pages 85-97 – (34-38%) This chapter basically goes into detail about the forbidden daughter of Hester whose name is Pearl. The first quotation is not from a scene, but rather just the author introducing you a bit more to Pearl. The author uses a metaphor in this first quotation on page 87 by comparing Pearl to a flower. The second quote is from an actual scene. During this time from on page 95, Pearl is running about and tossing flowers at the scarlet letter on her mother. Hester really worries about little Pearl, and why she is constantly acting so strange. This quote is a metaphor comparing Pearl to a witch, since they are not certain …show more content…
It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.” Page 48-48 (20-21%)