Entry 5
"Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast--at her, the child of honourable parents--at her, the mother of a babe that would hereafter be a woman--at her, who had once been innocent" (Hawthorne, Chapter 5).
Hawthorne uses parallelism in this quote. By repeating the phrase "at her" over and over again, he is using emphasis. He is emphasizing how Hester will be criticized and looked down upon for the rest of her like, and that everything she carries is a symbol of the sin she's committed.
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