Quotes: Scarlet Letter 5 pts. Chapter Title Speaker Situation Significance – narrative, literary technique, Religious, ideological, or rhetorical meanings.

Quote In fact, this scaffold constituted a portion of the penal machine, which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely historical and traditionary among us, but was held, in the old time, to be as effectual an agent of good citizenship as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France.

Quote “Thou art not my child! Thou art no Pearl of mine!....Tell me, what thou art, and who sent thee hither?”

Quote “Good men ever interpret themselves too meanly”

Quote “Ye have both been here before, but I was not with you. Come up hither once again, and we will all three stand together.”

Quote ….And mother, he has his hand over his heart! Is it because, when the minister wrote his name in the book, the Black Man set is mark in that place? But why does he not wear it outside his bosom, as thou dost, Mother?