While reading The Scarlet Letter, I was introduced to many characters such as Hester
Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl Prynne. Of all the main characters
in the story, the person I most empathize with is Pearl. Even though Pearl is a little girl, I can
understand, in a way, what she is going through. Throughout the beginning of the story, she has
no idea who her father is. While I have known my father for my whole life i have known of
people who have never met their own fathers, and i can understand what confusion she must
have felt as a young child.
When Pearl is described in Chapter 6 as an ”Elf-child” who has a “wild, desperate,
defiant mood,” I understood immediately what she must’ve been like to be around because when
I was younger, …show more content…
4. Locate five examples of figurative language devices and thoroughly explain them
On page 126, the author uses wordplay to describe the seriousness of the actions of
Arthur Dimmesdale as he was torturing himself. the sentence says, “In Mr. Dimmesdale’s secret
closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. The word scourge has two different
definitions that, when inserted into the sentence, change the sentence to mean two different
things. the first definition of scourge is - a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.
The second definition is - a whip used as an instrument of punishment. Both meanings are
crucial to that point in the novel.
On page 174 Hawthorne uses a simile to compare Hester’s moral life to a wild, untamed
forest while using “like” or “as”. “She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral
wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest.”
On pages 180 - 181, Hawthorne uses a metaphor describing Pearl to be like an
Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl Prynne. Of all the main characters
in the story, the person I most empathize with is Pearl. Even though Pearl is a little girl, I can
understand, in a way, what she is going through. Throughout the beginning of the story, she has
no idea who her father is. While I have known my father for my whole life i have known of
people who have never met their own fathers, and i can understand what confusion she must
have felt as a young child.
When Pearl is described in Chapter 6 as an ”Elf-child” who has a “wild, desperate,
defiant mood,” I understood immediately what she must’ve been like to be around because when
I was younger, …show more content…
4. Locate five examples of figurative language devices and thoroughly explain them
On page 126, the author uses wordplay to describe the seriousness of the actions of
Arthur Dimmesdale as he was torturing himself. the sentence says, “In Mr. Dimmesdale’s secret
closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. The word scourge has two different
definitions that, when inserted into the sentence, change the sentence to mean two different
things. the first definition of scourge is - a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.
The second definition is - a whip used as an instrument of punishment. Both meanings are
crucial to that point in the novel.
On page 174 Hawthorne uses a simile to compare Hester’s moral life to a wild, untamed
forest while using “like” or “as”. “She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral
wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest.”
On pages 180 - 181, Hawthorne uses a metaphor describing Pearl to be like an