1. Warm Up Are you a conformist or non-conformist?
Is it more important to have your own beliefs or follow the beliefs of your family/culture/society?
Is it more important to be an individual or be a part of a group?

2. What did you figure out? What do we know about our characters?
Our setting?
Our conflicts?
Questions we can’t solve?

3. Chapter 1 Annotate chapter 1 for the following:
Hawthorne describes the puritans.
Hawthorne describes the setting.
Hawthorne uses figurative language.
Hawthorne alludes to Ann Hutchinson. Who is she?

4. Chapter 2
On 45, some of the women discuss punishments more befitting of Hester. What are some of their suggestions?
How is Hester described on 46?
On 48, Hester is compared to Mary the mother of Christ (“Divine Maternity”). What is the effect of this comparison?

5. Chapter 3 How is Chillingworth described on 52-53?
“The penalty [for adultery] is death” (54). Why then wasn’t Hester executed?
How is Dimmesdale described on 57? What does he demand of Hester?

6. Chapter 4
How does Master Brackett, the jailer, describe Chillingworth to Hester? (60)
How does Chillingworth respond when Hester asks, “ ‘Wouldst thou avenge thyself on the innocent babe?” (61).
In the same, to what animal is Chillingworth compared? (61)
Did Hester ever love Chilly? (63). How does Chilly respond?
Chillingworth claims to have committed “ ‘the first wrong’ ” (63). What was it?
“ ‘[H]e must needs be mine!’ ” (64). Who?
What does Hester promise to do at the end of the chapter? (65)