... guilt of being an adulterer eventually kills him. Hawthorne's story begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. Hester's husband, a scholar much older than she is, sent her ahead to America, but he never arrived in Boston. While ... Hester to keep her (their) child. Hester threatens Arthur just to get him to come out of hiding. Obviously, showing capriciousness this lack of obligation not only torments Dimmesdale in the lon...

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... of fact his death was not a sad one, for he was relieved from the pain in his heart and also got to kiss his daughter Pearl whom he never got to kiss, hence, at the end of the novel, the latter character musters courage and loses his weakness which was replaced with the powerful character that confronted without fear. Chillingworth is not a very amiable character to ... the reader , but on the other hand he is a very shrewd and sharp person, with a malignant ... keenly and evilly apply to his wife's lover, this showed his clever yet evil "haunted by satin" character. This discerning qu...

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... knows that her behavior could cause her to lose her daughter, Pearl. Hester is also maternal with respect to society: she cares for the poor and brings them food and clothing. By the end of the novel the "a" changed meanings from adultery to able. The shame attached to her scarlet letter is long gone. Throughout The Scarlet Letter Hester is portrayed as an intelligent, capable, but not ... ; she did so out of her own weakness. However, there were instances when the Boston community simply alienated Hester out of hatred and fear of the scarlet letter that she was forced to wear. Actions t...

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