The first of three scaffold scenes features Hester Prynne and three-month-old daughter, Pearl. Hester is publicly punished for her sin by having to stand alone clutching her infant for three hours. Ironically, on this same day of humiliation for Hester, Chillingworth arrives from his long journey. When he sees her on the scaffold, he is enraged over her sinfulness and swears to find out the identity of her partner so t

most powerful scaffold scene comes at the end of the novel when Dimmesdale finally gathers the strength to confess his sin in front of the people. He climbs the scaffold with Hester and Pearl at his side and overcomes his years of pain, however he cannot go one after the amount of suffering he has endured.

The people stare in awe at this sight of love and tragedy. In shock over the death of their beloved minister and the confession of his ultimate sin they do not know how to respond. This last scaffold scene ends the guilt and torture of Dimmesdale and closes the novel. The death of Dimmesdale essentially kills Chillingworth because he has nothing left to live for. His public acknowledgment of his sin also causes Pearl to express her first real sign of emotion, she kisses her father and begins to cry, showing that she can now live a normal life. Hester also feels complete in that she finally sees her daughter as a normal child with a life ahead of her. The final scaffold scene is a powerful conclusion to the end of the novel.

In this last scaffold scene Dimmesdale finally gathers the strength to confess his sin. He asks Hester and Pearl to help him up the scaffold stairs for he is dying quickly and barely has the strength to walk. The three of them finally stand together and Dimmesdale says what he has tried to exclaim for so long, “People of New England! Ye that have loved me! Ye that have deemed me holy! - Behold me here, the one sinner of the world! At last! - At last! - I stand upon the spot where seven years since, I should have stood; here, with this woman, whose arm sustains me…” He continues until he finally has no strength, but to rip his shirt and reveal to everyone his own scarlet letter on his naked breast. He also says to Pearl, “My little Pearl, dear little Pearl, wilt thou kiss me now.” And for the first time in the novel Pearl shows affection for her father and sheds a tear for him. There in the light of day in front of all of his followers Dimmesdale dies peacefully with the fa!

When Hester realizes what is going on between Dimmesdale and Chillingworth she receives permission from her husband to reveal his identity to the minister. Dimmesdale learns of this in a

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