... is directly linked to the symbol of the rose in chapter eight. Hester and Pearl meet with Mr. Wilson, a Puritan minister in Boston, in an attempt to convince the Puritan authorities not to take Pearl away from Hester. Here Mr. Wilson refers to Pearl as a "Red Rose- (101) when he sees her. In the same chapter, Pearl ... herself makes mention of the rose-bush outside the prison door. Mr. Wilson begins to question Pearl about how she has been made. In response to his questioning, "the child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but ... on the bush outside the prison door. Es...

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... for the act should also be punished along with Hester. He vows to find the unnamed father of the baby and have his revenge. Even after consistent questioning by Reverend Wilson (the Church) and the Governor (the State), Hester refuses to disclose the name of the man who has committed adultery with her. When Chillingworth is admitted to her jail cell ... of her wild behavior and the sinfulness of her mother, some of the important people in town suggest that Pearl should be taken away from Hester. The Governor and Rev. Wilson are ready to place the child with a guardian when Rev. Dimmesda...

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... actions based on love are not immoral. The scaffold scene in the beginning chapters of the novel signifies that Hester will not reveal the identity of Pearl's father. The Reverend Wilson demands that Hester reveal the name of the father, but she refuses to say. Believing that Hester's pastor could discover the name of Pearl's father, Reverend ... Wilson asks the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale to speak with Hester. She refuses to state the name of Pearl's father. Dimmesdale, relieved, responds: "Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will ... ...

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... of punishment, he goes to admit his sin but he goes when it is pitch black outside and everybody in town is at home. "A good evening to you, venerable Father Wilson. Come up hither, I pray you, and pass a pleasant hour with me!" Good Heavens! Had Mr. Dimmesdale actually spoken? For one instant he believed that these words had passed his lips ... . But they were uttered only within his imagination. The venerable Father Wilson continued to step slowly onward, looking carefully at the muddy pathway before his feet, and never once turning his head towards the guilty platform. When the light ...

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... wants a rose from the bush outside the window but is quickly quieted. Chapter VIII: The Elf-Child and the Minister Soon after Hester and Pearl get to the mansion, Bellingham, Wilson, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale show up. The see Pearl and make fun of her. Than the governor asks Hester why she should be allowed to keep Pearl, and she says that ... Pearl will learn a lot from her and her mistakes. Wilson tries to test Pearl on religious topics and can see Pearls dislike towards him when she refuses to answer the questions. Hester begs them to let her have Pearl and ... ...

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... arm, and with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and glance that would not be abashed.""(P.60) This line shows that Hester herself was ashamed for what she had done. Wilson and Governor Bellingham go as far as they want to take Pearl away from Hester. However, seven years later Hester Prynne was viewed as being very different. The "A- itself had ... the people that have to be around it. The letter takes on a life of its own in the story, it seems to be so much more then just cloth. "When Wilson spoke, the scarlet letter seemed to derive its scarlet hue from the flames of the infe...

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... herself. God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child" (82). Pearl is explicitly identified as a "moral blossom" when, in response to Minister Wilson's inquiry as to who made her, she "announce[s] that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that ... ...

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... to develop Hester's character. It means "adulteress," but it changes metaphorically throughout the whole novel. For instance, we see Hawthorne's compassion toward Hester at a point in the play when Reverend Wilson said, " A great red letter in the sky,-a letter A,- which we interpret to stand for Angel." Although it may seem that on the outside this is discussing the death of Governor ... ...

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... , 44) While Chillingworth is in the crowd growing angrier at the thought of his betrayal, the reverend Dimmesdale is crying out to Hester to reveal his name. The clergyman, Mr. Wilson tells Dimmesdale to speak out to Hester and urges him to, "Exhort her to confess the truth!" (Hawthorne, 48) Reverend Dimmesdale, looking deep into her eyes tells her, "Be not ... ...

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... townsperson that he is talking to that the person that fathered the Hester's baby, Pearl, will be known. Rev. Dimmesdale is also in this scene. He is asked by Mr. Wilson to go and talk to Hester, go and make her confess the truth. He talks to Hester asking her to tell him who the fellow-sinner is. After Hester says ... ...

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... publicly recognized for her sin and must accept the burden that will now weigh down upon her for the rest of her life. Also, it is here that Reverend John Wilson struggles in vain to extract the secret that Hester withholds as to the identity of the father of her child. He states that he would prefer to have the minister ... ...

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... to adultery in the marketplace. The scaffold as a place for confession is civilized and controlled by the townspeople. Ironically, it is on the scaffold, Arthur Dimondale is named by John Wilson, the eldest clergyman of Boston and a great scholar of his contemporaries in the profession, as the person of Reverend Clergyman to persuade and exhort Hester Prune to repentance, and to ... ...

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... reveal that he is her long lost husband, but swear that he will find and seek revenge on the father of this baby. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and his friend John Wilson are introduced at the scaffold begging Hester to reveal the father of the baby so that he may suffer just as Hester does. Ironically, it turns out that Arthur Dimmesdale ... ...

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