Three Scaffold Scenes In The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet letter is a book written during the 17th century about a young lady who committed adultery and what occurs in her life because of it. In the book, three scenes occur at the scaffold. The scaffold scenes play a very significant part in the story’s events. These three scaffold scenes mark the beginning, middle and ending of Hester’s, Pearl’s and Mr.Dimmesdale’s awful life story. In the first scaffold scene, they are bringing Hester onto the town’s scaffold. As she humiliates herself up there everyone is standing on the balcony judging her, even her daughter’s father. Mr. Wilson asks Hester to tell who the father is and she could remove her horrendous A, but she doesn’t budge. This sets her path throughout the story.