The Market Place Summary The Puritan women waiting outside the prison self-righteously and viciously discuss Hester Prynne and her sin. Hester‚ proud and beautiful‚ emerges from the prison. She wears an elaborately embroidered scarlet letter A — standing for "adultery" — on her breast‚ and she carries a three-month-old infant in her arms. Hester is led through the unsympathetic crowd to the scaffold of the pillory. Standing alone on the scaffold as punishment for her adulterous behavior‚ she remembers
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main character‚ Hester Prynne‚ commits adultery‚ she is forced to wear the scarlet letter. The puritan society in which Hester lives is very extreme in demonstrating the theme of an sheltered society. When Hester committed adultery‚ the people of Boston threatened to take her daughter‚ Pearl‚ away. After an encouraging speech by the Reverend Dimmesdale‚ who we later learn is Hester ’s secret lover‚ the governor finds that Pearl is best suited with Hester. Even though they never
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Published in 1850‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is a book based on sin‚ guilt‚ and redemption. A woman‚ Hester Prynne‚ must bear the guilt of sin by wearing a scarlet “A” on her bosom. The reason she wears this letter is because she had a child by a man‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ who is not her husband‚ Roger Chillingworth. Although she has committed the sin of adultery with Dimmesdale‚ her husband is also guilty of being a sinner himself. According to the narrator in Chapter 14‚ “This unhappy
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Letter‚ Hester Prynne and reverend Arthur Dimmesdale endeavor to assimilate to the expectations of a puritan society. Throughout the novel‚ Prynne and Dimmesdale fight to make amends for their sin of adultery‚ and as the town glares a spiteful eye at Prynne‚ Dimmesdale hides away‚ still loved by all. Prynne makes a conscious decision to embrace her quarantine from the community’s shunning. However‚ Dimmesdale faces an internal battle of shame and guilt while concealing his immorality. Prynne and Dimmesdale
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greeted to civilization with the discovery of his wife’s adulterous act. Through further analysis‚ it can be determined that this misfortune was largely due to Chillingworth’s foolishness in marrying a much younger wife and sending her to New England on her own. Although initially capable of loving‚ Chillingworth is inattentive and old. This very temperament of Chillingworth leads to the sadness present in Hester‚ provoking her decision to commit adultery. Chillingworth’s choice to marry such a young
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has committed adultery with Hester Prynne‚ and he is constantly troubled by inescapable guilt. Dimmesdale knows he is a hypocrite and he hates himself for it. He tries many ways to pay penance‚ but nothing seems to relieve him of this terrible guilt. He tries fasting and he tries whipping himself‚ but nothing can rid him of his guilt. This guilt causes Dimmesdale to become physically ill. He constantly is holding his hand over his heart. This is because Hester Prynne is forced to wear the scarlet
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Pearl‚ Roger‚ and Hester who show two totally different perspectives of themselves. A dichotomy is the division of something or someone into two parts; it can be good and be bad at the same time. For example spiders‚ no one likes spiders around their house‚ but they can be a use for trapping and killing unwanted flies around your home. It is contradicting‚ and dichotomies surround each and every one of us whether it’s the things we do or events that happen around us. Hester Prynne‚ the protagonist
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He passes by the prison door that is marked by rusted iron‚ and by the scaffold that has witnessed the ignominy of many‚ yearning for freedom from the unyielding grasp of his weighty secret. As he continues walking‚ he attempts to prevent the burden of his heavy heart from weighing him down‚ placing his hand over his heart to shield the invisible wound from the eyes of passersby. His agony is one that is beyond description‚ a deleterious pain experienced by the soul rather than the physical body
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to be very religious; however elements of hypocrisy in the puritan way of life are exemplified. There is a strict hierarchy in a society that advocates equality‚ at the top are men like Governor Bellingham‚ who himself is very materialistic. “Hester Prynne went‚ one day‚ to the mansion of Governor Bellingham‚ with a pair of gloves‚ which she had fringed and embroidered to his order.” Because “she hath good skill at her needle” he orders her to make them for him‚ to show “he still held an honourable
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someone. The Scarlet Letter is centered around sin‚ involving three characters Hester‚ Arthur Dimessdale‚ and Pearl. Hester Prynne is a young woman who commits the act of adultery. She is left out of her community because of this crime‚ and looked down on. Arthur Dimmesdale is the priest who helped Hester commit adultery. Dimmesdale keeps his sin hidden‚ and eventually becomes ill and weak from it. Pearl is the daughter of Hester‚ and the result of Dimmesdale’s and Hester’s love. These three characters
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