Chillingworth. Chillingworth suspects Arthur Dimmesdale to be the father of Pearl. For seven years‚ Chillingworth seized to ruin Dimmesdale. Hester realizes what her husband has caused. Dimmesdale and Hester then plan to move to New England and create a new life together. Dimmesdale does not go through with the plan. He decides to stand upon the scaffold and show the town the scarlet letter "A" carved into his chest. To admit to his sin just like Hester has done. Dimmesdale and Chillingworth die a year apart
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with her choices‚ whether they were good or bad‚ and also as the protagonist. He also presents the daughter of Hester‚ Pearl‚ as an intelligent female‚ especially for her age. He goes on to prove man as imperfect through both the characters of Dimmesdale and of Chillingworth. With the situation that all the characters face‚ Hawthorne establishes the female as the triumphant one‚ accomplishing something that‚ during Nathaniel Hawthorne’s time‚ authors did not attempt. In the beginning of the book
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with her husband in another country‚ Hester has sexual relations with a Puritan minister‚ Reverend Dimmesdale‚ and together they have a child‚ whom Hester names Pearl. After the Puritan community in which she resides discovers Hester’s sin‚ as she is unable to conceal it due to her pregnancy‚ she is forced to display the scarlet-colored symbol of her crime for the rest of her life on her chest. Dimmesdale fails to reveal his role in the affair and acknowledge Pearl as his own‚ and therefore is able
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Guilt can destroy a person’s‚ body and soul. The theme of that book is for Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
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at the bad quality of the movies but‚ “Nothing seemed to anger critics more than the film’s heavy-handed political correctness” (Daniels 2). The 1990 making of The Scarlet Letter portrayed Hester as nothing more than a feminist that gets hot when Dimmesdale is around‚ and also naked many times throughout the movie. Hester’s true symbol was a woman of dignity
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The character of Roger Chillingworth has been presented to audiences as a spiteful and conniving old man through imagery by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne does not stop at just imagery either ‚ he uses his full literary Arsenal in chapter 10 to ensure the audience is aware of Chillingworth’s true and vile nature. At the beginning of the chapter Hawthorne uses a matter of fact tone when describing Chillingworth past. This description of Chillingworth gives the audience a basis of his past personality
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The mind is by far one of the most intriguing and unknown parts of the human body‚ but it has been broken down into three distinguishable parts by Sigmund Freud. He has broken the mind into the id‚ ego‚ and superego. These are all parts of the human mind that control each and every action or thought that a person has. The id is the pleasure part‚ and it controls actions that occur without thought of punishment. The ego controls all actions that occur consciously and with knowledge of the consequences
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because this is where Dimmesdale performs his own silent vigil upon the scaffolding. The interpretation of this is that even the seemingly most holy of men has sin within and Arthur Dimmesdale is proof of that. He cries out in agony as he stands on top of it‚ because of the great amount of spiritual pain he’s is suffering from along with guilt. As he screams‚ Hester and pearl happen to be walking by‚ on their way home from the death bed of the governor Winthrop. At this point Dimmesdale‚ in an act of love
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experience of Arthur Dimmesdale parallels that of the Bible’s story of King David and Bathsheba and demonstrates that sin is a natural‚ unavoidable part of human life‚ but having committed a sin without confession leads to a life of internal turmoil and guilt. Hawthorne pushes the parallel between Dimmesdale’s experience and the scriptural story of David and Bathsheba with the description of the tapestries decorating Dimmesdale’s study (112). In doing so‚ he gives Dimmesdale a larger-than-life role
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Roger Chillingworth. The townspeople were very judgmental people with very little compassion. Pearl is the “sin child” who is the daughter of Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne. Hester is the wife of Chillingworth‚ who has a child while he is gone‚ and later she wants to leave with Dimmesdale to live somewhere else‚ because she loves him. Dimmesdale is the great minister of Salem‚ Massachusetts and has committed a very large sin himself and has convicted other people of the same crime‚ making him
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