who ask for it and don’t demand it. I think that in the book Hester Prynne is forgiven and Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are not forgiven. I think that because Hester was married to Chillingsworth but while he was gone for a couple of years Hester got with Dimmesdale. Hester got pregnant with her little baby Pearl. Chillingworth found out and want revenge right away. He told Hester not to tell anyone about his real identity. Hester is forgiven because now she has to wear a letter A on her chest
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Having reached the depths of the forest‚ Hester and Pearl sit on a heap of moss beside a brook. Just then footsteps are heard on the path‚ and Hester sends Pearl away‚ but not before the girl asks whether it is the Black Man approaching and whether Dimmesdale holds his hand over his heart to cover the Black Man’s sign. Pearl asks her mother to tell her a story about the Black Man‚ who is said to haunt the forest. Hester explains to Pearl that the Black Man is a myth about the devil. He haunts this
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Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne is convicted of adultery and ordered to wear the scarlet letter "A" on her chest as a permanent sign of her sin. Hester is sentenced to never take off this badge of shame‚ and doesn’t until chapter thirteen. As the novel proceeds‚ Hawthorne presents several questions that are left unanswered. How does the nature of the letter "A" seem to change? What role of does Hester’s own response to her situation play in changing the meaning of the letter "A"? How does the letter
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The one character‚ Reverend Dimmesdale‚ seems as if he is kind‚ but he has been living with a terrible burden‚ hindering him everywhere he goes. Chillingworth is his opposite‚ you would assume him to be nice when really he is quite evil. Dimmesdale and Chillingworth bring out each other’s characteristics and bring out the characteristics of other characters around them. Dimmesdale and Chillingworth but heads in every aspect of their lives especially when it comes to Hester‚ who just so happens to be
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Is Dimmesdale a good or bad person what do you think? I believe that Dimmesdale is a good person that was just afraid and confused. Dimmesdale didn’t want to die or make things worse for Hester. That is the reason he didn’t confess to being the child’s father. He regretted not being there for her that’s why he would hurt himself for it. When everyone tried to get Pearl taken away from Hester Dimmesdale helped convinced the mayor to let Hester keep her child. “Therefore it is good for this
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put to death." Chapter 1—The Prison Door Paragraph two explains the typical allotment of land in a Puritan town. What three establishments are early accounted for on Isaac Johnson’s lot? What does this information tell us about Puritan values? How does Hawthorne describe the prison? Identify a significant metaphor in the second paragraph. A pathetic fallacy is a literary device in which Nature appears to understand human feeling and respond accordingly. An example is believing that the sun is
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Many characters go through transformations in The Scarlet Letter‚ and one of those characters is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of a puritan society‚ and it is the laws of that society‚ both written and unwritten‚ that Dimmesdale breaks and which causes the changes to occur. He commits the sin of adultery‚ and by sleeping with Hester Prynne‚ breaks the laws that he is supposed to represent. He cannot admit his sin because he is a holy man‚ and admitting his sin would
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keep Hester Prynne’s adulteress lover Arthur Dimmesdale a secret because of their young daughter Pearl. Hester Prynne was married at the time Pearl was conceived‚ making the townspeople furious with her adultery. As her husband comes to town under an alias named physician Roger Chillingworth‚ he examines the Panic-stricken baby and bashes Hester for being deceitful. Moving to the outskirts of town and raising what many called a “devil baby” Pearl who brings both joy and reprimand to Hester. Soon
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Eros vs. Thanatos: The Conflict between Dimmesdale and Chillingworth A look out the window renders him paralyzed with fear. An elevation that surpasses the clouds obscures his view of the bottom. A fear of heights‚ a possibility of death‚ a wailing conscience fail to restrain him. He jumps‚ and is relieved. This unconscious human desire for death is one component of Freud’s psychoanalytical theory‚ the concept of the death drive. Freud‚ the father of psychoanalysis‚ mentioned in his later works
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backs like uncontrollable flooding‚ which destroyed lives and crops. Regardless‚ both the success and failure of Mesopotamia was affected by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Euphrates and the Tigris rivers were on both sides of Mesopotamia‚ and the people living there used the water as an advantage to trade. The location of the rivers is an example of how geography affected Mesopotamia positively. Petroleum and red clay were two popular natural resources that would be traded using the water as transportation
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