Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Chapter 15 Quotes

She marvelled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him! She deemed in her crime most to be repented of, that she had ever endured, and reciprocated, the lukewarm grasp of his hand, and had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own. And it seemed a fouler offence committed by Roger Chillingworth, than any which had since been done him, that, in the time when her heart knew no better, he had persuaded her to fancy herself happy by his side.   3
  “Yes, I hate him!” repeated Hester, more bitterly than before. “He betrayed me! He has done me worse wrong than I did him!”

In this quotation from chapter fifteen of The Scarlet Letter has a sense of Dark Romantic Literature. Emotions has dominated the in the quotation by which Hester was so furious that she shouted “Yes, I hate him!". Nathaniel Hawthorne utilized imagery to depict the scene and the behavior of the character and further show the intrinsic emotion or thought. The text  "grasp of his hand, and had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own" has described the detail of the character physically and might further infer the anger. Overall, the emotion has revealed in this quotation.

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