The Scarlet Letter Flashcards
(23 cards)
Religious law
When a religion is used as legal resource
Moral Law
the belief of a right and a wrong
Code of Ethics
A set of standards, rules, guidelines, and/or values that you live by
Sin
A violation of a moral rule
Society
A group of people grouped by mutual interests, relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture
Total Depravity
People are predisposed toward evil
They are unable not to sin, or they must sin because their nature is corrupt
Jonathan Edwards
- Preacher
- Scientist
- Community leader
- Smart
- During Great Awakening
- Sermons were extreme
- Viewed as “last puritan”
Romanticism
Intellectual, philosophical, and literary movement
5 Things Romanticism Emphasized
1) Subjunctive
2) Irrational
3) Imaginative
4) Natural World
5) Emotional
Subjunctive
Ones own opinions, moods
Irrational
Emotion takes precedence over reason
Natural World
Importance of nature in spiritual growth
Emotional
Trust your instinct
4 main points of the Custom House
1) Autobiographical info
2) Highlights Heart (romantic ideal) & Head(Puritan ideal)
3) Gives definition of romance novel
4) Explains why novel is written
Why is the novel written?
- Narrator finds manuscript
- Manuscripts details main events of scarlet letter
- Narrator also finds scarlet letter A
- Narrator looses his job & writes Scarlet Letter
Point of view
Mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story
Functions of P.O.V.
1) Affects shape of story & determines how material reaches him
2) Author must depict setting of action through perceptions of a character
3) It is a way of conveying meaning
4) Determiner of structure, and helps with character development
Does Pearl consider herself and earthly child?
No, she has no heavenly father
How does Dimmesdale punish himself?
Flogs himself, doesn’t confess
Whats the sermon written by Jonathan Edwards?
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Who are Hesters “helpers”?
Shame, despair, solitude
How does the community view Dimmesdale?
Holy figure that can do no wrong
What does the scaffolding represent?
Punisment –> free will
