... Pearl, Hester, and Dimmesdale throughout the whole of the novel. Nathaniel Hawthorne has a sufficient reason for repeatedly making reference to mirrors throughout his refined novel, The Scarlet Letter. The use of mirrors in the story serves a beneficial purpose of giving the reader a window to the character's innermost thoughts. When viewed in a mirror no longer its Hester's beauty the first thing we notice, but rather ... bosom!" This passage reveals that Pearl is a part of the scarlet letter, and that she feels emotionally void when she realizes her mother had abandoned the emblem on t...

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... He decides to take revenge on Dimmesdale. Chillingworth had suspected Dimmesdale of being Pearl's father for a long time but he knows it for sure at the end of chapter 10, when he finds the minister fallen asleep in his room and sees the scratch on the form of the letter A. "The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bossom, and thrust aside ... to prevent contact with those sinners, "As the two wayfares came within the precincts of the town, the children of the puritans looked up from their play, - or what passed for play with those sombre little urc...

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• Grade Level: High School

... causes her own emotional isolation. "It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and inclosing her in a sphere by herself." (40) However, the people's attitude does change. It goes through various roller-coasters of positive and negative meanings throughout the course of the novel. The symbolism of the scarlet letter is expanded in Chapter Five, Hester at Her Needle. Whereas at ... meanings. The letter begins to represent the hidden shame of the community. This shame is shown through Hester's reactions around the community, like when she almost co...

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• Grade Level: High School