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Sometimes, if the emotion is strong enough, it will bleed out into the environment around us. This is what happened with Hester, who felt such shame that the sun avoided her like it was ashamed of her, with Dimmesdale, who was consumed by such sadness and grief that it was all he could feel much like the brook who “sighed and murmured” incessantly and with Chillingworth, whose desire for revenge gave birth to a hideous creature much like the new, unsightly weeds growing on the grave. These visible changes in the world around us allows those who pay attention to understand the emotional state of a