In this passage, Hawthorne not only describes his ideas about sin, temptation, and human frailty, but he also explains the intuitive nature of human knowledge.

A loud or low expression of anguish—the whisper, or the shriek, as it might be conceived, of suffering humanity, that touched a sensibility in every bosom! At ...

Mistress Hibbins approaches Hester. She says she can always tell a servant of the Black Man, and that both Hester and Dimmesdale are such servants. Hibbins also ...

Suggesting that the Devil is Pearl's real father, Mistress Hibbins invites the child to go on a witch's ride with her at some point in the future. The narrator ...

She confides in Hester that she knows Hester serves the Black Man, the Puritan version of the Devil, and makes reference to a mark she believes Dimmesdale ...

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Analysis. Mistress Hibbins's remark foreshadows the climax of the novel when Dimmesdale rips aside his shirt and reveals what is (or is not) on his chest. The ...

The shipmaster gets her attention by throwing her a gold chain, which she twists around her neck and waist. Hm, a little foreshadowing, perhaps?

The people possessed, by hereditary right, the quality of reverence; which, in their descendants, if it survive at all, exists in smaller proportion, and with a ...

Chapter 22 starts with a description of a procession. The music comes first and although not paired perfectly, it attains the solemn and heroic atmosphere.