... Prynne are more significantly involved in the extraction of their revenge. Hawthorne's ultimate theme in The Scarlet Letter is vengeance amongst all of mankind. Since the moment Roger Chillingworth was introduced into the novel, revenge filled his mind. He first began gaining information from a stranger in the crowd of the puritan community about the familiar woman standing upon the scaffold. As soon as Chillingworth ... learns why Hester was on the scaffold he begins plotting his ... revenge for not only her, but also for the unknown father of the baby. He made it known that he would f...

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... Prynne are more significantly involved in the extraction of their revenge. Hawthorne's ultimate theme in The Scarlet Letter is vengeance amongst all of mankind. Since the moment Roger Chillingworth was introduced into the novel, revenge filled his mind. He first began gaining information from a stranger in the crowd of the puritan community about the familiar woman standing upon the scaffold. As soon as Chillingworth ... learns why Hester was on the scaffold he begins plotting his ... revenge for not only her, but also for the unknown father of the baby. He made it known that he would f...

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... concerning himself and Hester. Such is the reason for the second scaffold scene. The first scaffold scene brought upon the idea that private repentance for this sin was the wisest course of action, but Reverend Dimmesdale feels differently. He can no longer continue to live knowing that he is the father of Pearl but has been nothing but a stranger to her for her entire life. Also, Roger ... Chillingworth, Hester's husband, knows that Arthur is the father and due to the circumstances that the townspeople feel that Arthur should be with Roger, his physician, all the time, Roger is able to...

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... , maybe, before we die, we can have one small moment of what we think is happiness. There is absolutely no sense, says transcendentalism, in the way the modern human functions based on all their frivolous details. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps, it is because he hears ... a different drummer" (Thoreau as cited in Lawrence & Lee, v). The path to transcendentalism is meant to be different for every being that travels it. It is supposed to be what fits that beings experiences, ideas, beliefs, truths ... of finding your own peace with yourself, and accepting your o...

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