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Chapters 13-14 (themes/motifs (the link/chain ("Here was the iron…
Chapters 13-14
themes/motifs
the link/chain
"Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break."(p144)
"Standing alone in the world...she cast away the fragments of a broken chain."(p149)
the soul
"Knowing what this poor, fallen man had once been, her whole soul was moved by the shuddering terror with which he had appealed to her.."(p144)
"At times, a fearful doubt strove to possess her soul, whether it were not better to send Pearl at once to heaven, and go herself to such futurity as Eternal Justice should provide."(p150)
language
Roger Chillingworth's changes
"But the former aspect of an intellectual and studious man, calm and quiet, which was what she best remembered in him, had altogether vanished, and been succeeded by an eager, searching, almost fierce, yet carefully guarded look."(p153)
"It seemed to be his wish and purpose to mask this expression with a smile; but the latter played him false, and flickered over his visage so derisively, that the spectator could see his blackness all the better for it."(p153)
Hester Prynne's realizations
"The child's own nature had something wrong in it....often impelled Hester to ask, in bitterness of heart, whether it were for ill or good that the poor little creature had been born at all."(p150)
"She had witnessed the intense misery beneath which the minister struggled, or, to speak more accurately, had ceased to struggle."(p151)
character development
Hester Prynne
"'...having cast off all duty towards other human beings, there remained a duty towards him; and something whispered to me that I was betraying it, in pledging myself to keep your counsel.'"(p154)
"'It was myself!' cried Hester, shuddering, 'It was I, not less than he. Why hast thou not avenged thyself on me?'"(p156)
Roger Chillingworth
"'He has been conscious of me. He has felt an influence dwelling always upon him like a curse.'"(p155)
"'By thy first step awry thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment, it has all been a dark necessity.'"(p157)