... hear his confession. This unmistakably is suggesting that he still does not want to admit his faults. Dimmesdale creates the mold for how Pearl and Hester live for the rest of the book. And what he created for them was a life of being scorned by society for many years without anyone else to turn to because he never visited or met with them. What makes things worse ... serves not only himself but also Hester and Pearl in an ill manner. The third and final scaffold occurrence finally puts Dimmesdale on the road to fidelity and responsibility, but he still displays his immorality and negli...

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... atone for his sin. After dealing with increasing frustration, Dimmesdale mounts the scaffold in the middle of the night, and he fantasizes about what would happen if everyone in town were to witness their holy minister standing in the place of public shame; he knows that his public disgrace could harden his followers, or even lead them astray. When Hester and Pearl join Dimmesdale on the scaffold ... their minister's righteousness confirms for Dimmesdale the responsibility he holds toward his congregation and the importance of self-sacrifice for the sake of the community. The next scene o...

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... characterization is to make characters credible and make them suitable for the role they play in the work. Authors present various characters possessing dissimilar qualities, to emphasize different aspects of the work. In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaniel Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. Hence, their different characters ... a matter of fact his death was not a sad one, for he was relieved from the pain in his heart and also got to kiss ...

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... isolates herself in a secluded cottage ostracized from the mainstream life. Hester's child, the product of her sinful act, symbolizes the extent to which the cruelty and narrow-mindedness of the town affects an innocent creature. Though innocent, Hester's child (Pearl) experiences the critical tones and gestures of the town since the day of her birth. The minister of the town reveals that he too had participated in ... and Prynne's act. Ironically, near the end of the novel, those women who had denigrated Prynne turn to her for advice for similar feelings which they had suppressed as a...

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... 's refusal of her earthly reunion with Dimmesdale, has long struck readers as Hawthorne's failure to honor the independent spirit of his heroine, his capitulation to nineteenth-century conventional ideals of womanhood. Similarly, the transformation of Pearl from elf-child to woman in the world may indicate a narrowing of scope or descent in planes. (Brown 107) Hester's real crime goes far beyond simply committing ... adultery. Hester has stepped over the boundaries of what a "good" woman is. A "good" woman is obedient and pious, ... by using a romantic interpretation. According to Carpen...

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