led from the town prison with her infant daughter. She was being punished for adultery. While waiting for her husband Hester had an affair with the priest‚ Dimmesdale and gave birth to a baby. The missing husband called himself Chillingworth settled in Boston at that time and decided to take revenge. Later‚ Chillingworth found out that Dimmesdale was the secret lover of her wife. Driven by hatred‚ Chillingworth became Dimmedale friend to torture him. Dimmedale himself also suffered from the censure
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others pain as long as they were hers and hers alone. However‚ Hester’s secrets harmed many more people‚ including her lover Dimmesdale and her husband Chillingworth. Her secrets hurt Dimmesdale the most. When she shared that her husband was Chillingworth‚ he seemed almost heartbroken at the fact that she would hide such an important piece of information from him. Dimmesdale was also hurt in many ways when she withheld the identity of the father of Pearl from the community‚ such as harming himself
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Romanticism Romanticism is a literary and art movement during the 18th and 19th century that highlights imagination and emotions. Some of the literary works of the Romantics movement was Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley‚ The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. In these novels the focus is to express their emotions in an imaginative way and this movement has influenced many American writers as well as European writers. American writer such as
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He wanted revenge because Dimmesdale and Hester were lovers. Chillingworth and Hester were once married but sadly Hester cheated on Chillingworth with Dimmesdale. This is the reason that both Hester and Dimmesdale had “A”s on them‚ it was a repercussion of their sin. Chillingworth seeked revenge on Dimmesdale because of what they had done. It became his obsession to get revenge on them for what they did to him for‚ making him look like a fool. However‚ when Dimmesdale died‚ Chillingworth really
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and severity of Puritan laws. During the 2nd scaffold scene Dimmesdale stands up on the scaffold and lets out an agonizing scream due to his inner-turmoil. In this scene the scaffold is meant to represent shame‚ however while Hester’s shame was public‚ Dimmesdale’s is personal. Dimmesdale is struggling with his feelings of guilt and shame for his sin and for his cowardliness. The scaffold represents the guilt and shame that Dimmesdale feels for what he has done and that he cannot find the strength
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an immense deal. Peering into the life of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale subsequent to their sinning‚ this novel allows us to see what they faced throughout the years regarding shame and guilt. Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ one will find that the novel is really based around moral consequence of sin and the act of redemption. A great aspect of this story would be sin‚ as it truly affects each
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When someone commits a crime‚ or does something wrong‚ they usually get in trouble. This usually results in a punishment‚ which can consist of anything from being grounded by your parents‚ to a prison sentence. Even if the person gets away with doing something wrong‚ and doesn’t get in trouble‚ the worst punishment is inevitable‚ which is guilt. In the second chapter of The Scarlet Letter‚ The Market-Place‚ this quote is said by a young wife while Hester Prynne is on the scaffold for the first time
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illegitimate daughter‚ Pearl‚ along with her lover‚ Dimmesdale‚ and husband‚ Chillingworth‚ are the main focus of this dramatic tale. Through her actions and words‚ Pearl is a “device” to move the consciences of her parents to end their sinful situation. Pearl’s physical obsession with the scarlet A torments her mother‚ at one point making her physically put it back on‚ all while forcing her to confront her sins. Pearl also pressures Dimmesdale into acknowledging her as his daughter‚ and admitting
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Public guilt vs. Private guilt. One of Hawthorne’s foremost purposes of the Scarlet Letter was to illustrate the difference between publicly shaming an individual and allowing another to suffer privately. He achieves this by involving Hester and Dimmesdale in the same offense; adultery and focusing on the emotional destruction guilt has on both characters in addition to how the two cope with their shame as the story progresses. In the beginning Hester’s guilty conscious and the torment of the society
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Languages in Hunan Normal University Email: qindan728@gmail.com Abstract: In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne portrays one of the most enigmatic child figures in American literature. Although she is an illegitimate daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Pearl plays an important role more as a dynamic force of moral guardian than a static symbol of sin in the plot. The purpose of this article is to present the aspects of Pearl‘s preternatural character‚ the functions that she performs in the plot
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