The first scaffold scene is where the reader meets all of the significant characters; Hester Prynne, Pearl, Rev. Dimmesdale, and Mr. Chillingworth. In this important scene, the novel focuses on Hester's newly found scarlet letter that she got from committing adultery and not telling who her partner in sin was. It is in the first scene that Hester confesses her sin and for the first time displays her scarlet letter to the townspeople. From this point on the whole community shuns her and looks down upon her, as she is a sinner.

Before Hester climbs the scaffold she feels weak and grim, due to her stay in the town prison, yet once upon it, she proves her strength by displaying her beautifully embroidered "A" to the townspeople for judging. Also up to this point in the novel Hester's child, Pearl, is just an innocent baby, free of sin. However after Hester's display she now live

The second scaffold scene starts with Dimmesdale. He is standing alone atop the scaffold, with the weight of his sin hanging heavy upon his heart. He is torn, because he knows that if he tells everyone his sin it will destroy him, but if he doesn't, it will (and has already started), to slowly consume him until ultimately it kills him.

Before climbing the scaffold, Chillingworth tries to stop Dimmesdale from putting shame on himself and climbing the scaffold; however, this is the only place that Dimmesdale can escape Chillingworth's constant harassment. Up until this point, God, Satan, and the angels know of Dimmesdale's sin, but not the townspeople. After telling the townspeople he cannot live any longer, and the Reverend, the father, the lover and the mentor, pass away with a clean soul because he confesses his sins. With the death of Dimmesdale, Chillingworth too has no more to live for as he has no ones life to make miserable, so he, too, dies.

The third and final scaffold scene occurs after Reverend Dimmesdale gives his much inspired and electrifying Election Day sermon. With his hand gripping his heart and a death-like hue on his face, the Reverend climbs the scaffold for the last time with Hester and Pearl. Finally though on his deathbed, Dimmesdale feels obligated to reveal his sin that he has been hiding from everyone for some time now.

Reverend Dimmesda

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