... the book. In chapter two while Hester is standing on the scaffold, she tries to hid from her grim reality by reminiscing of the better days of her youth. Hawthorne notes, "she saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it." Hester knows ... Nathaniel Hawthorne's exercise of mirrors throughout the novel. In chapter eleven, Arthur is desperate to flush away his sins and absorb righteousness back into his soul. "He kept vigils, likewise, night after night. . . . sometimes, viewing his own face i...

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... married. When Wordsworth first lays eyes on this beautiful woman he describes her eyes being as beautiful as the stars in the evening and her hair as dark as the night. He goes on to say that her shape is one of a graceful dancer and her attractive image is in the mind of the romantic poet William Wordsworth which sometimes makes ... sound." In the second stanza is a list of things that in no way can equal to the beauty of the girl's singing." No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'...

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