... escape from Boston. Running from the truth makes him feel even more guilty. Finally, he can bear the shame and guilt no longer. On Election Day, he climbs the scaffold with Hester and Pearl and publicly confesses his sin. Since he has admitted his guilt and won his personal victory, he ... town. It is a moralistic and gloomy place where the citizens dress in drab colors and lack any liveliness. Even on the Election Day holiday, they cannot relax and enjoy themselves. The Puritans easily find fault in the weaknesses of others, as evidenced by the fact that they gather at the scaffold to wi...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , the scarlet letter concealed who Hester really was. The last identity the "A" took on is the adjective able. On pages 241-242, the Native Americans who came to watch the Election Day pageant thought the "A" marked Hester as a person of importance and high status! People viewed Hester as defiant, strong, and able. However, everything Hester is viewed as is due to its ... adulteress, ashamed, artistic, alienated, armor, or able, is it because of one source- the scarlet letter. The narrow-minded Puritanical society only sees her for these few things. What the Puritans should have seen in ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh. It was his custom, too, as it has been that of many other pious Puritans, to fast, -- not, however, like them, in order to purify the body and render it the fitter medium of celestial illumination, but rigorously, and until his knees trembled beneath him ... , which makes him more vulnerable; his private suffering destructed his internal strengths. Unable to overcome the pressure he put on himself, Dimmesdale finally reveals his sin during a sermon on the election day to the community. He admits t...

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