of the townspeople the secret that has burdened her mother as well as their minister‚ Dimmesdale‚ portrays the constant struggle between truth and innocence. Like critic‚ Anne Marie McNamara states‚ "Pearl is part of the electric chain’ formed as she‚ Dimmesdale‚ and Hester join hands in the darkness and stand on the pillory as a family for the first time‚" Pearl is the missing link between Hester and Dimmesdale in that their relationship lacked innocence and doubly posing as the figure of truth
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The procession is a huge ordeal for the citizens of the Puritan town‚ passing through the busy marketplace “on its way towards the meeting house; where [...] the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale was to deliver an Election Sermon” (194). The procession includes musicians that “played with no great skill” (194) but were still able to harmonize together‚ along with a body of soldiery that “still sustains a corporate existence‚ and marches down from past ages with an ancient and honorable fame” (194). Enormous
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affair with a secret lover‚ and a child was born. The colony realized what she had done and immediately convicted her of adultery and punished her by requiring her to wear an embroidered A on her clothes. Ironically‚ one of her punishers was Arthur Dimmesdale‚ with whom she had the affair. Hester had to face the community’s judgement every day and she developed a demeanor to help her get through. However‚ her new attitude eventually affects her true personality both positively and negatively. Hester
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Letter and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” characters Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and John Oakhurst illustrate the theme of moral ambiguity through their struggles and actions. Hester Prynne endured many things throughout her life. She was forced to be married to Roger Chillingworth‚ a man she did not love. Prynne was sent across the ocean without him to establish a home in the new world. She fell in love with Arthur Dimmesdale‚ a young‚ smart‚ and handsome Reverend. Hester Prynne soon became known
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society’s rules do not apply‚ and alternate identities can be assumed. While this allows for misbehavior— Mistress Hibbins’s midnight rides‚ for example—it also permits greater honesty and an escape from the repression of Boston. When Hester and Dimmesdale meet in the woods‚ for a few moments‚ they become happy young lovers once again. Hester’s cottage‚ which‚ significantly‚ is located on the outskirts of town and at the edge of the forest‚ embodies both orders. It is her place of exile‚ which ties
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tried to savor every moment with him‚ but under such restrictions of puritan society‚ it was nearly impossible. She did know however that death was inevitable from day one‚ and that leaving the village would only ruin the time she had left with Dimmesdale. "But there is a fatality‚ a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom‚ which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt‚ ghostlike‚ the spot where some great and marked event has given the color
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herself and mentally send Pearl into a state of depression. This passage also helps the readers to better understand what is going on. This passage helps infer that at some point in the upcoming chapters Pearl will find out about her mother and Dimmesdale. It also shows how relentless Pearl is to try to find out what the marking on her bosom stands for. This passage sets a precedent for the chapters to come because it sets up suspense between Hester and Pearl while also thickening the conflict
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the forest scene‚ the light and the happiness of Hester triumphed over the evil that surrounds her. Hawthorne draws his characters out by having one behold elements‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ and the other character behold elements of light‚ Minister Dimmesdale. Hawthorne then goes deeper to express that the darkness of one might not be of evil intention‚ but rather dulled by everyday sin of which the light could be redeemed. Rembrandt displays this in the paint Self Portrait as St. Paul‚ showing how
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governed the community and all aspects of life in these communities. Since the ideal was almost impossible to attain‚ society was fraught with sin. Hawthorne addresses sin and transformation through his characters Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the Puritan setting to discuss the human toll of such lofty and intolerant ideals. The concept of Individual freedom plays a large role in the development
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thee‚ on thy pedestal of shame‚ yet better were it so‚ than to hide a guilty heart through life. What can thy silence do for him except it tempt him-yea‚ compel him‚ as it were- to add hypocrisy to sin?” (Hawthorne 47) This quote was a demand from Dimmesdale to Hester while she is on the scaffold being integrated to speak the guilty name of the one who accompanied her with the sin. Although‚ he is pleading to Hester to give the name of her fellow sinner‚ in reality he doesn’t really want her to reveal
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