"Among all who have offended, you alone have sinned most!"
Justice
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"
Fear
"Go forth! and tell the world the truth!"
Truth
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"
Fear
"Come away, mother! Come away!"
Relationships
"For all wild things love the forest!"
Nature
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"
Fear
"Thou hast kept the secret of my parentage."
Family
"Tell me,—shall we not spend our immortal lives together?"
"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you!"
Fear
"My mother bore me in sin, and shame hath been my birthright"
Family
"Art thou not afraid of nightmares and hideous dreams?"
Fear
"Take it off! She may cover her bosom with it!"
Freedom
"Show them a token!"
Truth
"Art thou my mother?"
Family
"Thou hast kept the secret of my parentage."
Family
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest?"
Imagination
"I have a strange fancy that this scarlet letter is of magic power."
Imagination
"Thy mother dares not wink at thee!"
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"
Fear
"Behold, I am a monster born of sin!"
"Thou art not true!"
Truth
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest?"
Fear
"Come away, or yonder old man will catch you!"
Fear
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts this forest round about us?"
Fear
"I am not of Adam's seed, nor am I thine!"
"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you!"
Fear
"Art thou sure that there is such a Black Man? And if there be one, why, and under what circumstances, did the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale so earnestly conjure me to beware of him?"
"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you!"
Fear
"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"