The Scarlet Letter Chapter 5 questions
Chapter 4 What do we learn of Roger Chillingworth? His motivations? His character? His reasons for staying in Boston? What promise does he ask from Hester?
Chapter 5: Read and Answer 1. How does Hester make a living for herself and her child beginning in this chapter? Explain the meaning of penance, usually thought of as a Catholic discipline. How does Hester’s actions in chapter 5 constitute a type of penance? 2. How does Hester respond to the criticisms of the townspeople as she walks through the streets of Boston?
Chapter 1 symbols The prison door. . . . Even a Utopian society needs a place to punish its wrongdoers. The cemetery. . . .death is certainly a part of any society, even one founded upon “Godly principles” The grassy plot with weeds springing up The wild rose bush. . . “a sweet moral blossom” This symbol offers hope in a tale of sorrow and human suffering. . . .