The author most likely includes the words "darker aspect," "beetle-browed," "gloomy," and "ponderous" in order to impart a melancholy mood.
The emotional response the author hopes to elicit from readers is referred to as mood in literature.It is, in other words, the emotions that the author wants the readers to experience.When Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the jail in "The Scarlet Letter," he chooses words that project a depressing atmosphere.
Melancholy is a sensation of sadness, specifically the kind of sadness that has no apparent cause. When we hear phrases like "darker appearance," "beetle-browed," "dreary," and "ponderous," we can picture this gloomy, cold, and sorrowful jail.
The novel's opening chapter introduces the reader to Boston in the seventeenth century. A crowd of drably attired Puritans is gathered in front of a rusted-out wooden prison in June.
The complete question is ''Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter. Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world. The author most likely include the words “darker aspect,” “beetle-browed,” “gloomy,” and “ponderous” in order to
a. impart a melancholy mood
b. impart a mysteries mood
c. establish a formal, civilized setting
d.establish and oldfashioned setting