Because Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale committed adultery, they both went through appearance and personality changes. Through out the book (The Scarlet Letter) examples and reasons are given to prove that their changes did leave a message.
Once the town had known Hester’s sin, her personality, and appearance transformed dramatically. At first Hester’s personality seemed very snobby. See seemed to turn her nose to every rule and rule maker. For example when she was on the scaffold for the first time and the ministers try to get her to say the name of her partner she replies, “I will not speak!” [pg. 47] Later, her red badge gives her pride and knowledge of her surroundings and of herself. She also was kind hearted and caring to those in need (like the poor she made clothes for). Hester’s personality change was a change for the good. Instead of having her eyes glued
Although Arthur Dimmesdale reflects the image of a perfect person, he held a secret that changed his personality and appearance. In the beginning of the book Dimmesdale seems very serious. Over time he become more or less insecure and shy with the secret of Hester and his adultery eating away at him. For example when Chillingworth starts questioning Dimmesdale about his secrets Arthur freaks out and says, “No!-not to thee!-not to an earthly physician!” [pg. 94] And stumbles off to another room. Later on in the end of the book he starts to understand that he could not be weak and cowardly anymore that he must be a truthful man and confess his sin. This change was commendable because without noticing that he was a coward he would never would have been free from the prison of secrecy he enclosed himself in. In addition his health began to fail gradually with his personality chan
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