These three important events in the novel have great significance. As the scene ends Dimmesdale again leaves Hester and Pearl but this time, it is forever into the afterlife. This voluntary confession makes this time unique. One last time a new scarlet letter is supposedly revealed on his chest. Helped by Hester and Pearl he climbs the scaffold and confesses. He again asks Hester and Pearl to join him. Chillingworth begs the minister not to do this, but the reverend thanks God for leading him to a place where he could escape from the leech. He can no longer bear the burden of his sins. When he is finished, he grows weak and limps towards the scaffold. It starts with the end of Dimmesdale’s great election speech. The last scaffold scene is the most important and greatest event in the novel. It foreshadows a bigger and more powerful scaffold scene. As the two men leave, the scene ends and leaves us with additional information. Chillingworth pleads for this so that he can still torment the reverend. Roger Chillingworth arrives and tells the minister to get down from the scaffold. Up in the sky, a scarlet “A” shines forth. The similarities continue with a revelation of another scarlet letter. He once again is too much of a coward to confess out in the open. At this time Pearl questions the minister if he will do this at noontide and he answers no.
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As before, they are asked to go up on the scaffold and be with the minister. He then sees Hester and Pearl coming down the street from the governor’s house.
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He seeks a confession of his sins a second time by calling out into the night. It is very similar to the other and helps us understand the torment of Dimmesdale.Īs before the tortured Reverend Dimmesdale goes first on to the platform. This scene sets the stage for the next two scenes.Ī few years later the event is again repeated.
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It was said “So powerful seemed the ministers appeal that the people could not believe but that Hester Prynne would speak out the guilty name.” His powerful speech shows Dimmesdale’s need to confess. Reverend Dimmesdale, Pearl’s Father, is already raised up on a platform to the same height as Hester and Pearl and Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s lost husband, arrives, stands below, and questions the proceedings.Īs Hester endures her suffering, Dimmesdale is told to beseech the woman to confess. Here the scarlet letter is revealed to all. 23, the narrator asks the question, “(Had Hester sinned alone?)” What is the impact of this question being in parentheses? Has she? Explain.At the beginning of the book, Hester is brought out with Pearl to stand on the scaffold. What does it show about Hester’s relationship to the community?Īccording to p. The diction of banished, apart, and alone appears again at the top of p. What is the one occasion for which she is not asked to sew? Why?ĭescribe Hester and Pearl’s clothing according to p. What skill had Hester developed? How do the townspeople feel about her work? What is ironic about this? Track the diction the narrator uses to describe this place and the reasons its original inhabitants left it. 20, the narrator describes where Hester and Pearl will live. What did she tell herself? What does the narrator suggest are her real reasons for staying?Īt the top of p. 19, Hester “compelled” herself to believe a “half-truth” about her reasons for staying.
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19 that Hester will come to embody what to the preacher and townspeople?Īccording to the narrator, why doesn’t Hester leave and move to Europe or some faraway place? Do you agree or disagree with the narrator’s assertion? What connection can you draw here to The God of Small Things? (The idea that a single act, a single moment in time, can be frozen and forever shape the lives of those whom it impacted)Īccording to the narrator on p. 18: What does the narrator mean when he says that Hester’s first day released from prison was “a more real torture” than the day she was paraded in front of the crowd in the marketplace? Explain.