... beautiful young woman, Hester Prynne, steps out of the prison threshold into the sunshine, carrying a young infant in her arms. She slowly, almost defiantly, walks to the scaffold, where she is to stand and endure public taunts, remarks, and stares. The most remarkable feature of her, besides her beauty, is the ... Hester's thoughts, it can be concluded that the scarlet letter stands for "adulteress." Hester has been accused of adultery and the small child in her arms is illegitimate.   In the third chapter, a small, deformed man accompanied by an Indian is identified in the crowd. As H...

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... place in Salem and Concord, Massachusetts; late 1840. A young woman, Hester Pryne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. A man in the crowd tells an elderly onlooker that Hester is being punished for adultery. Hester's husband, a ... Tell who each character is and describe their appearance, attitudes, motives and anything else that is important to know about the characters. A. Hester is the book's protagonist and the wearer of the scarlet letter that gives the book its title. The letter, a patch of fabric in the...

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... agony that Hester had throughout the day. Another one of the characters is Roger Chillingworth. He is Hester's husband . Both of them don't want anyone to know that they are married. While Hester was on the scaffold she noticed Chillingworth walking in the crowd. When he was walking around he asks a ... late at night as a sign of fear, cowardness, evil, and concealment. The third and final scaffold scene takes place at the end of the book in chapter 23. One of the characters that is involved in this final scaffold scene is Dimmesdale. After Dimmesdale uses all of his energy that he has ...

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