... Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale's struggle was not with another person though. His struggle was with himself. The cause of Dimmesdale's struggles are the same as Hester Prynne's. They committed adultery and hester bore a child. Dimmesdale was a very respected minister and held strong religious beliefs. One of these beliefs was that adultery was very wrong. He could not bring himself to tell those who ... afterwards, he dies, but he dies with a clear conscience. Dimmesdale's struggle may have had the same origins as Hester's, but they did not play out the same way. While Hester bore her sin publi...

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... the people in her society did eventually acknowledge the brave, strong woman Hester always had been. However, they never would know what it was like to be the person who bore that scarlet letter. Hester knew the A's significance in her own life to be much different from what was viewed by others. Only Hester herself felt the letter on her chest ... , it is also important to recognize the burning color of the letter that appears on Hester. Hawthorne's tragic moral vision is illuminated in his beloved character and the letter she bore. The meaning that directly correlates with Hester's A s...

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... things. The child she had was a little girl named, Pearl. 2 Pearl was usually dressed in a dark red or scarlet. Pearl was very sly and new that the "A" the her mother bore was because of something her mother has done. I think she knew it was because of a bad sin. Either way Pearl antagonized her mother and pointed or would grab this symbol ... the community there was a local pastor, Reverend Dimmesdale, whose church was the very one Hester Prynne attended before she was banished. Reverend Dimmesdale was also the one with whom Hester bore Pearl. The situation was very uncomfortable betwe...

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... from an intellectual, fair man to someone who was obsessed with revenge until there was nothing left in him. "The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies, and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor ... ...

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... not only aged but had completely transformed. She later says, "It was not so much that he had grown older; for through the traces of advancing life were visible, he bore his age well and seemed to retain a wiry vigor and alertness."" Despite Chillingsworth old age he still remained energetic and vigilant of his surroundings. Hester realizes he has revolutionized into ... ...

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... day, Chillingworth brought a bunch of dark herbs to the reverends room. When the reverend asked Chillingworth from where did he get those he said he "found them on a grave, which bore no tombstone," and also added that "they grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done ... ...

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... away and she will be able to live a normal life in the future. "Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor ... ...

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... away and she will be able to live a normal life in the future. "Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor ... ...

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... book we hear a conversation between Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth (Hester's unknown husband). They are discussing the origin of a strange dark plant that Chillingworth discovered. "I found them growing on a grave which bore no tombstone, nor other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance. They grew out of his heart, and ... ...

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... solitude or truthfulness for the main characters of this novel. Hester Prynne, the books protagonist, is a young woman who has cheated on her husband, Roger Prynne, with Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester bore a baby from this relationship, and was forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" for adultery. Hester uses the forest to bring out many hidden emotions, but mostly to use it as an ... ...

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... truth, knowing this is the punishment for her sin. " All the world had frowned on her- for seven long years had it frowned upon this lonely women,- and still she bore it all, nor ever once turned away he firm, sad eyes,"(133) she realizes that her life as well as societies revolves around her sin. For the adultery Hester has ... ...

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... of grain, was a shrivelled and poor as the miserable people. Everything was bored down, dejected, oppressed and broken. Habitants, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, and children and the soil that bore them all won out." The reign of terror, the period of greatest chaos during the French Revolution, showed that liberty is not so easy to earn, many lives were sacrificed ... ...

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... 73). It is hypocritical of Reverend Dimmesdale to tell Hester Prynne to speak out the truth when he knows the truth and he is the father of the child she bore. His silence shows how much of a coward Reverend Dimmesdale is and how scared he is of the truth. Instead, he is often seen with his hand covering his heart, looking ... ...

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... and Pearl in the final scaffold scene, it is the only sense of relief for him. "The spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies, and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek- (251). By admitting his sin, he finally frees himself from his guilt and from Chillingsworth ... ...

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