Scarlet Letter Scaffold Scene

There are three important scenes that take place on the scaffold. The first scene like the other scenes takes place in the center of town. Hester a young women who is holding her newborn daughter pearl makes her way to a scaffold, where she is to be publicly condemned for her sin of adultery. While she is up on the scaffold she sees her husband Chillingworth in the crowd and in disbelief she squeezes pearl tight to her making the baby cry. Also Dimmesdale, the priest of the town, who is Hester’s lover, was also in the crowd. But instead of willingly standing on the scaffold with Hester he shows his moral degeneracy and lack of bravery and lets her stand up there alone. He even remarked “That the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor,