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Scarlet Letter
“I Will Always Love You” is a song that two lovers end up leaving each other and going on their own. In this case of the book Scarlet Letter I choose to use this song and relate it to Hester Prynne always gonna lover her daughter Pearl no matter how or what had happened. I choose the lyrics “I Will Always Love You” because this is showing how Hester will always love Pearl for herself and not regret her mistake she made as much but regret how she had done it quote in chapter 4 “God gave her into my keeping,” repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a shriek. “I will not give her up!” The scarlet letter made Hester a better person than she was before becoming a stronger person in the town dealing with adultery, guilt, shame, and secret …show more content…
One way this relates to her is when Chillingworth forced her to marry him when she never loved him. Hester being forced to marry Chillingworth and then committing adultery shows me that she feels she’s better off on her own than with Roger Chillingworth who she doesn’t even love. A quote from the book said by Hester that also shows me she’s better off on her own is "Thou knowest that I was frank with thee. I felt no love” This quote is referring to Chillingworth making Hester marry him. Hester wishes that Chillingworth was a better man and she may have actually had love for him. However, since Hester never loved Chillingworth and was forced to get married to him. Hester might have actually loved him more if they waited awhile in order to get married when they were both ready and both loved each other.
Secondly, in this song I choose the lyrics “The permanent damage you did to me” as another set of lyrics that resemble Hester Prynne. I choose these lyrics because Chillingworth has done damage to Hester and he knows it. The damage he has done is forcing her to marry him at a young age. In chapter 1-4 of the Scarlet Letter it states that Chillingworth did admit he was wrong for forcing Hester to marry him even tho he knew she didn’t love him. Chillingworth also causes permanent damage to Hester by trying to seek revenge on Dimmesdale the father of Pearl Hester’s
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