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
"God gave me the child!" cried Hester. "...He gave her in requital of all things else, which he had taken from me. She is my happiness! She is my torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! She punishes me too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a million-fold the power of retribution for my sin? Ye shall not take her! I will die first!" "...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!" A few years later Hester almost lost her daughter to Puritans, who thought Pearl did not embody enough religion. Governor Bellingham wanted to take Pearl out of Hester's charge, in order to have Pearl disciplined strictly, and be religiously instructed under Christian catechism to benefit the child. The Puritans had a very narrow view of how to raise children. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If Hester had been without Pearl, she would have nothing to live for. Master Dimmesdale was present; he spoke for her and said that Hester was punished enough by the red symbol that sears her bosom. The Governor decided to leave the matter as it stands, and continue to let Hester look after her own child. This conflict shows that Mr. Dimmesdale still won't confess that he is Pearl's father, though he kept them from taking Pearl away from Hester. o, she once stood
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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