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I need a word, quote or phrase from the scarlet letter for the 5 senses:
sight
smell
taste
hear
feel

2007-08-05 12:08:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Quotations

3 answers

sight...
"When he found the eyes of Hester Prynne fastened on his own, and saw that she appeared to recognize him, he slowly and calmly raised his finger, made a gesture with it in the air, and laid it on his lips." Chapter 3, pg. 57

smell...
"[O]n one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him." Chapter 1, pg. 46

taste...
"Pearl had not found the hour pass wearisomely, while her mother sat talking with the clergyman. The great black forest—stern as it showed itself to those who brought the guilt and troubles of the world into its bosom—became the playmate of the lonely infant, as well as it knew how. Sombre as it was, it put on the kindest of its moods to welcome her. It offered her the partridge-berries, the growth of the preceding autumn, but ripening only in the spring, and now red as drops of blood upon the withered leaves. These Pearl gathered, and was pleased with their wild flavor."

hear...
"And she was gentler here than in the grassy-margined streets of the settlement, or in her mother’s cottage. The flowers appeared to know it; and one and another whispered, as she passed, “Adorn thyself with me, thou beautiful child, adorn thyself with me!”—and, to please them, Pearl gathered the violets, and anemones, and columbines, and some twigs of the freshest green, which the old trees held down before her eyes."

feel...
"...I happened to place it on my breast....It seemed to me then, that I experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of a burning heat; and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron. I shuddered, and involuntarily let it fall upon the floor." Introductory, pg. 31

2007-08-08 19:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0 0

5 Senses Quotes

2016-12-15 11:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by incardona 4 · 0 0

well, i dont remember the exact words, but the one the priest said to the people....about something about...."the pang....etc etc"..Referring to Hester's conscience...Relating to the fact that even if you punish her, it would be way too much because it will always follow her, and be inside her, that she did something wrong.....the problem with that is,....the priest was the actual father of the child...So, Hester admits that she did do something wrong...But the priest is covering everything up...and also trying to let her get away....Why not? Its his gf and thats his child.....

2016-05-19 13:15:29 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

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