... , but he still displays his immorality and negligence. Hawthorne creates the last scene in the town during the gathering for Election Day. Dimmesdale is chosen to give a sermon for the congregation and finally decides to end his struggles with guilt. After one of his most brilliant sermons he mounts the scaffold with Hester and Pearl. His confession to the public is taken with shock as he rips his ministerial ... sinfulness. Again Dimmesdale is a highly respected clergy official who is looked up to as a symbol of integrity and faithfulness. What Hawthorne is trying to show his readers th...

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... have to bear the burden of isolation for the rest of her life. She is reminded of her sin every day with her child, Pearl, and the scarlet letter. Hester's perseverance, self-reliance, and strength helped her survive the alienation from the town, but the long period of time without another human's affection besides Pearl's made her callous. Hester made the decision to stay in Boston even after being disgraced by the community because ... yet to be her penitence. She had returned, therefore, and resumed - of her own free will, for not the sternest magistrate of that iron period would hav...

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... the town starts from the ground up (Hawthorne 142). The role of a character, as Birkerts explains, is given a symbolic nature in a situation just as Pearl is in The Scarlet Letter (Birkerts 122). Pearl is the more modern Salem town's person and shines light on possibilities for those who were lost. Pearl represents an accidental symbol according to his definition of the accidental symbol. This is because when we hear the word pearl after reading the ... Scarlet Letter we are then followed up with an array of emotions and thoughts about the character and her situation. When defining the ...

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... the course of events. At the end of this vigil, a red "A" appears in the sky, which the community interprets as a symbol that their governor who has passed away is an angel; they fail to recognize the connection between Dimmesdale and this symbol even after his glove was found on the scaffold. The community's confidence in 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 of interaction ... ...

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... sin "a bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but an ailment in the spiritual part". the fragility and susceptibility of Dimmesdale states clearly his weakness, moreover. Dimmesdale's love and agony towards Hester was shown in his physical and mental degeneration, furthermore, his love to Pearl, his daughter, was shown when he was trying to kiss her, ... town to find his wife, Hester, involved in an adultery crime with the character Dimmesdale. His character is strengthened further more through his journey, and this is evident through the...

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