IFDC- SAN LUIS-2012

LANGUAGE IIIDESCRIPTION OF A

CHARACTERTEACHER: ROMINA FESSIASTUDENTS: MARCELA CLARK & ADELA PEREZ DEL VISO

HESTER PRYNNE

ROUND DYNAMIC

complex realist

ic

Bad traits

Good traits

commitment

values

understanding

Main character

ROUND CHARACTERBAD TRAITS:

CHILDISH QUARRELS

(p.49).

ADULTERY

HATRED (P.150)

A ROUND CHARACTER

HESTER PRYNNE. Physically“The young woman was tall, with a figure of

perfect elegance... She had dark & abundant hair,..., a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature & richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow & deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too...” (p.45)

“Her attire which,..., she had wrought for the occasion, in prison,..., seemed to express the attitude of her spirit.” (p.46)

A ROUND CHARACTER

HESTER PRYNNE. Emotionally“She,..., underwent an agony from every

footstep”. (p.47) (at the scaffold)“Her sick & morbid heart” (p.66)“... She was supported by an unnatural

tension of the nerves and by all the combative energy of her character, which enable her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph” (p.66) (when coming out of prison)

A ROUND CHARACTERHESTER PRYNNE. Mentally

“Her mind, and specially her memory was preternaturally active, and kept bringing up other scenes...” (p.49)

“Possibly it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself” (p.49)

A ROUND CHARACTERIt was “... as if she inhabited another sphere,

or communicated with the common nature by other organs & senses than the rest of humankind. She stood apart from moral interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside and can no longer make itself seen or felt, no more smile with the household joy, nor mourn with the kindred sorrow; or should it succeed in manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror & horrible repugnance.” (p. 71)

A DYNAMIC CHARACTER. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES.

In her Understanding

“THE WORLD`S LAW WAS NO LAW FOR HER MIND” (P.139)

“SHE ASSUMED A FREEDOM OF SPECULATION”

(P.139)

ACQUIRED A NEW SENSE: SYMPATHY WITH THE SINNER

(P.73)

“ACQUIRED A PASSPORT INTO

REGIONS WHERE OTHER W. DEARED NOT TREAD. “ (170)

DYNAMIC UNDERSTANDING.CHAPTER XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF

HESTER. Page 139:MARBLE COLDNESS/ TO BE

ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HER LIFE/ FROM PASSION AND FEELING, TO THOUGHT.

« THE WORLD´S LAW WAS NO LAW FOR HER MIND ».

FREEDOM OF SPECULATION: THESE THOUGHTS: DEADLIER CRIMES THAN THAT WHICH STIGMATIZED HER WITH THE S.C.

VISITORS TO THE COTTAGE/ DARED NOT ENTER INTO ANY OTHER DWELLING/ SHADOWY GESTS, DEMONS.

DYNAMIC UNDERSTANDINGPage 73:HESTER SHUDDERED TO BELIEVE that

HER SIN gave her a SYMPATHETIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIDDEN SIN IN OTHER HEARTS.

HESTER: « TERROR STRIKEN » by this revelation.

Page 170:PASSPORT: « The S.L. Was her passport to

regions where other women dared not TREAD (STEP ON). « 

TEACHERS: SHAME, DESPAIR, SOLITUDE, they TAUGHT her much AMISS (wrongly).

A DYNAMIC CHARACTER

IN COMMITMENT

SOCIETY

DIMMESDALE

PEARL The Poor.

A DYNAMIC CHARACTERFrom “Antique

gentility” (pg. 49) to a wife of a scholar , and ultimately the lover of a priest.

From an authentic puritan (she went to

Church regularly P.72), to a

freethinker woman. (P.140)

At first she felt GUILTY (Pg.75) but

then she thoughts that there are good things

coming from the S.Letter. (93)

“At times a fearful doubt strove to

possess her soul, whether it were not

better to send Pearl to Heaven at once”

(P.141).

“Was existence (of woman-hood) worth

accepting?” (she answered finally: no)

P. 140

IN VALUES.

INTELLIGENT

CARING

LONG SUFFERI

NG

CONSIDERATE

DETERMINED

CONCLUSION. (PERSONAL OPINION)