Journal Entry 9: Chapters 23-24 After the death of young Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester’s role in society remained the same prior to the years of his death. When she returned to her home in the Puritan settlement, she continued the life she had. As I stated in Journal Entry 6, Hester’s role was to aide and guide others that needed her. The Scarlet Letter was no longer an object of regret but rather an object of awe. Her story became a legend to many after the many years had passed. She never thought
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can be interpreted in different ways depending on the point of view. In the town Salem, those who take the religion seriously are the representation of “freedom”, but those who oppose the religion are punished and are opposed. At the beginning of “The Scarlet Letter” Hester’s status in Salem is the ideal figure of oppression but within herself she knows she has liberty. On page 61, the dames muttered, “If we stripped madam Hester…I’ll bestow a rag of mine…” This conveys how the dames are jealous
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poisonous nature of deceit is in its most lethal form when one attempts to deceive themselves. Hester Prynne observes this lethal combination of denial through the gradual corruption of Roger Chillingworth and the steady moral and physical atrophy of Dimmesdale. These observations of concealed shame essentially prompt her to understand that the only route to true liberation from the confines of human shame is the path that shuns self deceit. A primary instance of the self deceit that Hester Prynne is subject
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because through out the story they are not acting Christian like one bit. Dimmesale is the biggest hypocrite of them all, he will preach from the bible but does not live by it. Dimmesdale becomes the biggest sinner of them all when he declared himself from the scaffold after he finished his election sermon. “Dimmesdale is irreparably
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refuges. Similarly, Hester is also in a loveless relationship with Roger Chillingworth, a man who sent her to the New World soon after their marriage and did not show up for a while afterwards. With no husband, Hester at last found love in Reverend Dimmesdale, and has an affair with him. As expected in a Puritan society, this was unacceptable and she was publically shamed and sent to the outskirts of town. When her husband did show up, he went on a passionless fit of revenge against the
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that Chillingworth is indeed her husband. This secret becomes too much for her to bear as it starts to put Mr. Dimmesdale in grave danger. Hester loves Dimmesdale and can clearly see that Chillingworth is attempting to inflict harm upon him. At first, Hester is only suspicious of Chillingworth’s actions towards her lover but as his intentions become clear, she resolves to tell Dimmesdale the truth behind his new doctor’s motives, “Her needlework was seen on the roof of the Governor; military men wore
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either one has to completely accept and to obey the religious belief or he has to disconnect himself from the society. Puritans believe in inevitably destined future, and they think people cannot save him. People are sinner. In the Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale tries to live his life with Puritan system, but he seems unsuccessful. As Natty Bumpoo, who stays outside the box of the unjust Temple, Hester Prynne also rebels against this Puritan system, and she creates her own law. Furthermore Hawthorne totally
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little Pearl!' said her mother. 'Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee!'" Chapter 7, pg. 95 She has a different attitude towards Dimmesdale hiding his identity shows her determination and loyalty. She is hoping for his better help and waiting and wishing they can escape to the new land. Hester is a needless lover to Dimmesdale never having demands and just letting things happen when they happen. Hester is nothing but helping and caring for people with less means than her
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in prison, when her husband who is known as a physician named Roger Chillingworth shows up after so many years and orders her to keep her mouth shut so he can carry out his plan of seeking revenge on her lover, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Chillingworth tortured Dimmesdale mentally and physically so harshly because he seeked the truth
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novel of The Scarlet Letter in order to demonstrate the failure of the oppressive Puritan society. Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman, moved to New England while her husband stayed behind in England. While she was alone, she had an affair with Reverend Dimmesdale and they have a daughter named Pearl. In the Puritan society, Adultery is one of the utmost sins that can be committed. When it became known that Hester was an adulteress, she was sentenced to prison and public punishment. Due to the oppressive
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