Scarlet Letter
In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale are two estranged lovers. They have a daughter named Pearl, who was the product of Hester's and Arthur's adultery. When Hester became pregnant, she had absolutely no idea where her repugnant, disfigured husband, old Roger Chillingworth was. After two years, was thought to have been at the bottom of the sea. The father of the baby was young Mr. Dimmesdale a minister of the Puritan church. Luckily, Hester Prynne was released from prison and was only sentenced to wear a lurid scarlet letter "A" upon her bosom, instead of execution, as the law stated. The Puritan religion of the town, in which Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne lived, kept them from joining together as a couple. The Puritan society caused their estrangement. They were unable to communicate or spend quality time together in the present and in the public eye, because of Arthur's high position as a minister. He was expected by the people of Boston to perpetrate good examples as an exemplary citizen. If his iniquity had been known, the town would exile and excommunicate him. Hester did not want to cause Arthur any abasement. And s
Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne "...It is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure his agony, as well as mine!" "I will not speak!" secret sin keeps him from Hester and Pearl. Reverend Dimmesdale wishes he could be in Hester's position, so he could at least have a clear conscience. Roger Chillingworth embodied iniquity that tried to courage Arthur to speak of what was pondering him so greatly. "I must needs look deeper into it. A strange sympathy betwixt soul and body! Were it only for the art's sake, I must search this matter to the bottom!" muttered Roger Chillingworth. The physician acted as though he was only trying to help, but he endured great suspicion that Arthur might be the fellow sinner behind Hester's adultery. The ignominious Mr. Dimmesdale who always held his hand over his heart loathed admitting what was making him despondent. His misery of knowing that as a minister he should be free of sin, caused him to wreak himself by whipping his backside and standing on top of the scaffold during the dark of night. Later, Hester and Arthur spoke of leaving together with Pearl to a new land. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The religion of their culture led Arthur Dimmesdale to inflict deleterious punishment upon his own being, because he is not honest. His "God gave me the child!" cried Hester. "...He gave her in requital of all th
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