... seven years makes them doubt the reality of the moment. The dramatic interchanges in which forgiveness is asked, withheld, and given and in which plans are made reveal much about the two characters and their futures. Also, it is there Hester Prynne is strong and is able to both analysis the situation and plot for their actions, and "undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from ... her bosom, threw it to a distance among the whither leaves." On the other hand, Arthur Dimmesdale is well respected in Boston and do not wish for his affair with Hester ... ...

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... awe, yet with reverence too." ( Hawthorne 260). The scarlet letter also forges a link between the characters. Pearl, for instance, can't see her mother without it; the scarlet letter had become a part of her mother. The scaffold is another important symbol in the novel. It symbolizes Judgment Day and repentance. Hawthorne uses it whenever the plot takes a shift, as a sort of turning point, "each of the scaffold scenes brings together in a moment of ... moral, emotional, and psychological tension the major characters and forces of the story" (Martin 109). At the beginning, the scaffold i...

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... 's attic and among these, he discovers a manuscript bundled with a gold-embroidered patch in the shape of an "A." The manuscript was written by a past surveyor who detailed events some two-hundred years before the narrator's time. He later decides to write a fictional story based on the events from the manuscript and calls it The Scarlet Letter. The narrator then goes into his book which takes place in 17th century Boston ... afterward. It was said that he was lost at sea. Apparently, while waiting, Hester had an affair with another since she had given birth to the adulterer's child and ...

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... a life ahead of her. The final scaffold scene is a powerful conclusion to the end of the novel. Hawthorne perfectly structures The Scarlet Letter around the three scaffold scenes. In each scene Dimmesdale is closer and closer to his confession. The first is the introduction to the novel, the second is the climax of the novel and the third is the conclusion to the novel. The first scene, located in the first few pages of the book, Hester reveals her ... Dimmesdale tries to tell her he sincerely wants her to reveal his name. She does this in the light of day in front of all the townspeopl...

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