Character significance- Hester has been at the lowest of lows and now she replace Dimmesdale’s place at the end of the book. This is a sign of hope to the townspeople because Hester kept trying to succeed and it ultimately succeeded. Which can also be seen that no matter where you are you can always succeed. This can also relate to the real world because people sometimes give up when things get hard and it should not be that way. When things get hard you give it more effort.
Quotes and Analysis:
#1)“ But there was a more real life for Hester Prynne here, in New England, than in that unknown region where Pearl was found home. Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence. She had returned, therefore, and resumed,- of her own free will, for not the sternest magistrate of that iron period would have imposed it,- resumed the symbol which we related so dark a tale. Never afterwards did it quit her bosom. But, in the lapse of the toilsome, thoughtful, and self-devoted years that made up Hester’s life, the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s …show more content…
But then—by a kind of necessity that always impelled this child to alloy whatever comfort she might chance to give with a throb of anguish—PearI put up her mouth, and kissed the scarlet letter too!”(221) Pearl just came up to Hester and gave her a kiss. This seems to be normal for a child her age, but then she goes up and also leans in to kiss the scarlet letter. As the reader you would presume to believe that Pearl would want to destroy the scarlet letter, but instead she cherishes it.. Pearl believes that the scarlet letter is a part of her mother and when it is removed Hester becomes a total stranger to Pearl. Also, Hester is letting Pearl take advantage of her. Pearl even knows this and she still goes and “mocks”
Quotes and Analysis:
#1)“ But there was a more real life for Hester Prynne here, in New England, than in that unknown region where Pearl was found home. Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence. She had returned, therefore, and resumed,- of her own free will, for not the sternest magistrate of that iron period would have imposed it,- resumed the symbol which we related so dark a tale. Never afterwards did it quit her bosom. But, in the lapse of the toilsome, thoughtful, and self-devoted years that made up Hester’s life, the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s …show more content…
But then—by a kind of necessity that always impelled this child to alloy whatever comfort she might chance to give with a throb of anguish—PearI put up her mouth, and kissed the scarlet letter too!”(221) Pearl just came up to Hester and gave her a kiss. This seems to be normal for a child her age, but then she goes up and also leans in to kiss the scarlet letter. As the reader you would presume to believe that Pearl would want to destroy the scarlet letter, but instead she cherishes it.. Pearl believes that the scarlet letter is a part of her mother and when it is removed Hester becomes a total stranger to Pearl. Also, Hester is letting Pearl take advantage of her. Pearl even knows this and she still goes and “mocks”