... punishment will thereby be made more effectual to Salvation, I charge the to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow sufferer!" (pg.63) Dimmesdale, while asking these questions to Hester, allows them to conceal their secret relationship from the townspeople and as well the strangers in the community. While being secluded on the scaffold, Hester comes across what seems to be familiar face in ... the crowd. She presents him as being a stranger in the novel, but yet when is placed in the prison for her crime, she comes in ... ones secret lover and father. Dimmesdale struggles th...

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... ; he swims in it, goes to sleep in it, and wakes to the new days to find it still about him. He belongs to it" it nourishes or starves him, or poisons him; it gives him the substance of his life." Community plays a large role in everyone's life; Pearl and Hester of The Scarlet Letter, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman, Eric Morse and his killers, of Ghetto ... things. Public displays of a person's crime were common. Some may think that the simple task of wearing a scarlet letter is no big deal, but try to raise a child who questions almost everything while wearing the letter. Her town branded H...

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