Since the start when Roger Chillingworth found out his wife, Hester Prynne, has an affair there was betrayal and vengeance running through his veins. Roger is an obstacle when it comes to Hester and Dimmesdale wanting to travel back to England and start their new life together.
Ethos is shown in Dimmesdale when he makes the decision to move countries with Hester the person he committed a sinful act with and has not yet confused about it to the community. In the text, it states, “Arthur Dimmesdale gazed into Hester’s face with a look in which hope and joy shone out, indeed, but with fear betwixt them, and a kind of horror at her boldness, who had spoken what he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak.” This shows how he wanted to hinted what he wanted her to ask, yet was not strong enough to say it out loud himself. Pathos is expressed when Hester keeps her head held high even when the townspeople are shaming her and giving her dirty looks. She feels little emotion towards the community stating that she was willing to leave in the first place. She feels no longing for the people that have done nothing but made her and her child an outcast. In the text, it states, “Hester when pestilence stalked through the town. In all seasons of calamity, …show more content…
In the text, it states, “Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference. She had borne that morning all that nature could endure; and as her temperament was not of the order that escapes from too intense suffering by a swoon, her spirit could only shelter itself beneath a stony crust of insensibility, while the faculties of animal life remained entire.” This expresses how Hester does feel ashamed but is not going to let her head down so easily. Hester knows that the townspeople would not notice if she was
Ethos is shown in Dimmesdale when he makes the decision to move countries with Hester the person he committed a sinful act with and has not yet confused about it to the community. In the text, it states, “Arthur Dimmesdale gazed into Hester’s face with a look in which hope and joy shone out, indeed, but with fear betwixt them, and a kind of horror at her boldness, who had spoken what he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak.” This shows how he wanted to hinted what he wanted her to ask, yet was not strong enough to say it out loud himself. Pathos is expressed when Hester keeps her head held high even when the townspeople are shaming her and giving her dirty looks. She feels little emotion towards the community stating that she was willing to leave in the first place. She feels no longing for the people that have done nothing but made her and her child an outcast. In the text, it states, “Hester when pestilence stalked through the town. In all seasons of calamity, …show more content…
In the text, it states, “Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference. She had borne that morning all that nature could endure; and as her temperament was not of the order that escapes from too intense suffering by a swoon, her spirit could only shelter itself beneath a stony crust of insensibility, while the faculties of animal life remained entire.” This expresses how Hester does feel ashamed but is not going to let her head down so easily. Hester knows that the townspeople would not notice if she was