Explanation:
"'Wilt thou yet forgive me!' she repeated, over and over, again
'Wilt thou not frown? Wilt thou forgive?'
'I do forgive you, Hester,' replied the minister, at length, with a deep utterance,
out of an abyss of sadness, but no anger.
'I freely forgive you now. May God forgive us both! We are not, Hester, the
worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest!
That old man's revenge has been blacker
than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!'"
- "The Scarlett Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Explanation:
Hawthorne employs the use of a poignant tone
here to show the reader how emotional and distraught Dimmsdale is over this subject. He is so distressed that he yells to
Hester "'Wilt thou yet forgive me!" to begin with this sentence shows how emotional and disturbed Dimmsdale is by this subject,
he wants Hester to know right away that he wants her forgiveness. Hester responds to this emotional plea by accepting his
apology but also stating that she is responding "with a deep utterance, out of an abyss of sadness" the use of the word utterance
shows how distraught Hester was, so she couldn't speak clearly but uttered her speech instead. Also the description of her
answer coming out of an "abyss of sadness" shows how deep her sadness was over this subject that it came from the biggest
hole ever known to human kind, where there is no end.
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