Chapter 21:
76. To what degree and for what reason is Hester isolated from Puritan community during the Holiday? How does Pearl act as a foil to Hester's condition in this scene? According to the narrator, how is this apparent contrast the result of an underlying connection between mother and daughter?
-Hester is isolated from the Puritan Community during the Election Day Holiday because she is once more an example of the punishment that comes from committing sin. No matter how she has changed and the years that have past since she was first accused she is still shunned from her community. Her daughter is free to run around the crowd because she does not wear the same mark of sham her mother has to wear.
77. How do the sailors present at this celebration illustrated the "incomplete morality of the age"?
-The sailors present at the Election Day Holiday illustration "incomplete morality of the age" because they were able to act wild. The citizen did not judge their behavior as wrong since they believe they were allowed to act inappropriate because of the dangers and perils they faced at sea.
78. What bad news does Hester receive from the ship’s captain? How might this news suggest an impending tragedy to the reader?
-Hester is told that Chillingworth is now going to be on the ship with Hester and Dimmesdale; their is now no reason for them to escape the town if the man who is causing the pain is going with them.
-Hester is isolated from the Puritan Community during the Election Day Holiday because she is once more an example of the punishment that comes from committing sin. No matter how she has changed and the years that have past since she was first accused she is still shunned from her community. Her daughter is free to run around the crowd because she does not wear the same mark of sham her mother has to wear.
77. How do the sailors present at this celebration illustrated the "incomplete morality of the age"?
-The sailors present at the Election Day Holiday illustration "incomplete morality of the age" because they were able to act wild. The citizen did not judge their behavior as wrong since they believe they were allowed to act inappropriate because of the dangers and perils they faced at sea.
78. What bad news does Hester receive from the ship’s captain? How might this news suggest an impending tragedy to the reader?
-Hester is told that Chillingworth is now going to be on the ship with Hester and Dimmesdale; their is now no reason for them to escape the town if the man who is causing the pain is going with them.