Prynne is punished for committing adultery against her ex husband Roger Dimmesdale. She is to be punished for seven‚ horrific‚ lonely years of her and her daughter‚ Pearl‚ lives. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is punished in three different ways. One of the three types of punishments Hester is going through is imprisonment. She is arrested on a charge for adultery against her ex husband‚ Roger Dimmesdale. Not only is she having to remain inside prison walls trying to pass
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later confirmed to be her reverend‚ the worshipped Arthur Dimmesdale. Since Hester became pregnant after the affair and her husband had not yet arrived in the colony‚ it was clear that she had committed adultery. The government of the colony demanded to know who her lover was‚ but Hester repeatedly refused to incriminate him. Because Hester never identified Dimmesdale as her lover and he lacked the courage to confess on his own‚ Dimmesdale never told anybody about what he had done and thus allowed
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alienated from her society for committing adultery with Reverend Dimmesdale. The bible says the man who commits adultery will suffer‚ and he will be in despair. Job 15:20‚ 21‚ 22‚ 23‚ 24 and 25 says “All his days the wicked man suffers torment‚ ... Terrifying sounds fill his ear; ...He despairs of escaping the darkness;...Distress and anguish fill him with terror; they overwhelm him‚ ...because he shakes his fist at God...” Reverend Dimmesdale struggled with God throughout the whole novel‚ and God causes
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Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Hester Prynne’s minister‚ suffers the greatest burden in the novel. Little does the congregation know that he had an affair with Hester. Instead of admitting his sinful act‚ he keeps it secret. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ this secretive sin brings Arthur Dimmesdale physical‚ emotional‚ and spiritual burdens. Arthur Dimmesdale inflicts a physical burden upon himself with self-loathing and torture. He takes Puritan fasting to an extreme by starving himself “
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and perplexing as the veil in the Minister’s Black veil‚ are the domain symbols may encompass. Hawthorne’s notable and unique use of the inanimate letter A‚ the scenery of the rose bush‚ and the settings of forest to make the characters -Hester‚ Dimmesdale‚ Chillingworth‚ and Pearl- into symbols in the novel in order to portray his moral and theme of: Be true. Be true. Be true! The red letter A is presented but whose meaning has to be deciphered. What does the letter mean? It is a question every character
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confided all the fear‚ the remorse‚ the agony‚ the ineffectual repentance‚ the backward rush of sinful thoughts‚ expelled in vain!” (Hawthorne 107). Dimmesdale may be a cowardly adulterer‚ but Chillingworth is a two-faced‚ evil‚ liar. Actions Dimmesdale performs are through fear‚ whereas Chillingworth is consumed by evil revenge. Although Dimmesdale has some terrible personal qualities and two wrongs don’t make a right; Chillingworth is the worse of two evils. Dimmesdale’s guilt has brought out
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to publicly display Hester’s sin in contrast to the forest where she is able to find sanctuary from public scorn. The forest is used by Hester and Dimmesdale to escape public scrutiny for their temporary relief from sin. While in the forest‚ Hester ripped off her Scarlet Letter from her chest‚ showing her attempts to be free from sin. Dimmesdale express himself to Hester about the guilt he has been feeling and they create a plan to leave the town. These attempts at relief from sin demonstrate
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spoken by Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter display her practice of situational morals and hypocrisy. Hawthorne displays this major element of human nature‚ hypocrisy in all characters save young Pearl who is blatantly unique from most people. Dimmesdale‚ Hester‚ and the entire Puritan community are hypocrites‚ and their hypocrisy manifests itself in the conflict of this novel. Hawthorne created a drastic difference between the inward and outward lives of everyone in this story and they can be related
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well-acquainted gaze at her familiar shame.” Like the last scene‚ Dimmesdale appears on the scaffold and summons Hester and Pearl to join him. It is obvious to the reader that this time is different though‚ it is in the middle of the day and there are people everywhere. Chillingworth‚ among the many people in the crowd acts differently as well. In the first two scenes he wishes for Hester to say the name of her lover and for Dimmesdale to admit it. In the third scene he tries to keep others from knowing
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life. She speaks up when she does not like something for example when Dimmesdale is embarrassed to be around Pearl and Pearl does not and will not accept that. In Chapter 13‚ Dimmesdale kisses Pearl‚ and she washes away his kiss and says it’s a punishment since he will not take responsibility for his sin. Pearl begins to mature and she sees her mother with Dimmesdale in the forest and becomes curious. Pearl picks up that Dimmesdale is her father “Doth he love us?" Pearl asks‚ looking into her mother’s
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