Both Uses of
turmoil
in
The Scarlet Letter
- This uncaptivating effect is perhaps due to the period of hardly accomplished revolution, and still seething turmoil, in which the story shaped itself.†
Chpt Intr. *
- To say the truth, there was much need of professional assistance, not merely for Hester herself, but still more urgently for the child—who, drawing its sustenance from the maternal bosom, seemed to have drank in with it all the turmoil, the anguish and despair, which pervaded the mother's system.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(turmoil) a state of confusion, disturbance, or disorder