Scarlet Letter
A beautiful puritan woman full of strong passions, Hester Prynne is the main character in the story. Employed as the village seamstress, she is strong and caring, helping anyone she can when he or she is in need. With a penitent heart, Hester travels through the story becoming only a shadow of her former passionate loving self. The letter that Hester was forced to wear upon her bosom, the scarlet letter was not only a symbol of her adulterous sin, but of the women herself. The letter masks her beauty and passion as the story goes until it is what she is known. Other than the scarlet letter, she was a very moral woman whose only joy in life was her daughter Pearl. Also, a rose bush that grew outside the prison was a symbol of survival, that there is life after the prison where Hester spent the beginning of the story. Secrecy, concealment, and deception almost always lead to suffering in The Scarlet Letter. The characters of Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth illustrate the negative effects of secrecy. Chillingworth?s secret revenge changes him from a decent, scholarly man into a jealous monster. Dimmesdale?s secret guilt corrupts the basic goodness of his nature and ultimatel
* Infant Pearl reaches her arms towards Dimmesdale at the end of his speech, in which he implored Hester to name the man who made her pregnant. ?Pearl reaches her hand out toward Dimmesdale? * Mistress Hibbens notices Dimmesdale?s changed appearance before the Election Sermon and comments on ?You look different - almost like a different man - when Hester and you met secretly in the forest.? * Pearl notices Chillingworth and Dimmesdale staring at her and her mother from a high window. She tells her mother that Chillingworth is a ?Black Man...[who] hath got hold of the minister already,? and that she must look away to protect herself.
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Approximate Word count = 1015
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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