This timeless story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne takes place in and around the times of Salem and Concord, Massachusetts. Specifically modern day Boston. Although this story is fictional it incorporates many current events around this time of early colonization. Almost all pivotal changes that occur in this story originated on the town “scaffold”. These events set the course of the story as well as explain a great deal of Hawthornes plot. Each one of these unique scaffold scenes represent either a beginning, middle, end all creating different results. Along with the three main scaffold scenes there are three main characters in this story.. Hester, Pearl, and Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout this story, Hawthorne makes it clear that these “scaffold
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Especially the significance of the Scarlet “A”. In this second scaffold scene the “A” is more prominent than ever increasing its reign and pain of suffering greatly as compared to the first scaffold scene. In this scene Dimmesdale initiates the scene by ascending onto the scaffold willingly because of his great suffering. He hopes this self repentance will help him cope with his guilt but as a result almost no transformation occurs. Dimmesdale cries out in a desperate attempt to free himself guilt. Hester and pearl nearby hear Dimmesdale and join him on the scaffold in the nighttime silently repenting in their own secret vigil. As this happens a comet appears in the night sky and many claim to see the letter “A” appear above. As this comet passes by Chillingworth can be seen in the distance illuminated by its light. Thus foreshadowing yet another event to be told later on in this story. This is the first time all three have been together since 7 years ago when the first scaffold scene took place. This pivotal moment once again changes the course of the story while highlighting key points and linking/foreshadowing future events within the story. This scaffold scene represents a “renewal” in the fact that when all three characters (pearl, hester and dimmesdale) joined together as one, better things happened as one unit rather than separately. This is further
Especially the significance of the Scarlet “A”. In this second scaffold scene the “A” is more prominent than ever increasing its reign and pain of suffering greatly as compared to the first scaffold scene. In this scene Dimmesdale initiates the scene by ascending onto the scaffold willingly because of his great suffering. He hopes this self repentance will help him cope with his guilt but as a result almost no transformation occurs. Dimmesdale cries out in a desperate attempt to free himself guilt. Hester and pearl nearby hear Dimmesdale and join him on the scaffold in the nighttime silently repenting in their own secret vigil. As this happens a comet appears in the night sky and many claim to see the letter “A” appear above. As this comet passes by Chillingworth can be seen in the distance illuminated by its light. Thus foreshadowing yet another event to be told later on in this story. This is the first time all three have been together since 7 years ago when the first scaffold scene took place. This pivotal moment once again changes the course of the story while highlighting key points and linking/foreshadowing future events within the story. This scaffold scene represents a “renewal” in the fact that when all three characters (pearl, hester and dimmesdale) joined together as one, better things happened as one unit rather than separately. This is further