Within the beginning of the novel, we the reader are introduced to Hester Prynne and the sin she has committed.

“On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread, appeared the letter A… But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer,-- so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed a

After the long conversation in the woods, Reverend Dimmesdale finds strength from Hester Prynne to carry on and accomplish future goals. The two come to the conclusion that they must leave Boston and seek a new life somewhere else where the two can live without the guilt of being together. This can only leave one to believe that the adulterous actions performed by Reverend Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne were done soulfully and meaningfully for love.

These thoughts and dreams of running off together and starting a new life were short lived, for on the scaffold Reverend Dimmesdale possessed no energy to carry on throughout life. However, in his last dying breath he carries the strength to bring himself forward on to the scaffold hand in hand with Hester Prynne and their Pearl. It is here that he reveals his ever-long secret to the community by exposing his chest, which has been scarred with the letter ‘A’. This scene further proves that the two, Reverend Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne, performed their acts of adultery only in the name of love for each other. In conclusion, Hester Prynne lived a life of prosecution for being proud of the love she shared with the Reverend Dimmesdale, but also a life of shame, for the mass hysteria and belief in superstition exhibited by the Puritan belief caused her to wear the temporary scar of her actions.

Then we see in the seventeenth chapter, The Pastor and His Parishioner, the novel beginning to come to an end. But, The last third of this novel takes place between Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne. Here the reader finds Hester Prynne in the woods waiting for Reverend Dimmesdale to return from a mission trip in the woods. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale talk about how they are feeling about the situation, in which Reverend Di

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