The Prison Door- the town prison is being described and its surroundings
The Market Place- Hester is going to the scaffold with Pearl.
The Recognition- Hester sees a man standing by an Indian with deformed shoulders.
The Interview- Hester meets Roger Chillingworth and he wants Hester to keep the secret of his identity.
“But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rosebush, covered in this month of June” (46)
The rosebush could represent the hope of all the prisoners to leave because they are all stuck in prison. Roses are usually fragile, while prisons are usually dangerous, and this image of a rosebush next to the prison door shows relief that there is still life outside of the prison full of darkness.
Hawthorne described Hester as having “dark and abundant” hair that is “so glossy that it threw off the sunshine”. The wording about the sunshine foreshadows what …show more content…
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter- Dimmesdale tears his shirt open and dies at the end of his sermon.
Conclusion- Hester continues to wear the scarlet letter A and it is put on her tombstone when she dies.
“She thought of the dim forest, with its little dell of solitude, and love”(234)
The forest is a place where others can connect but in town, Hester and Dimmesdale are not allowed to know each other. In the forest, there are no man made rules that will stop them from knowing each other.
Pearl got what she wanted from Dimmesdale so she decided to kiss him and it symbolized his guilt ending. The fact that Dimmesdale acknowledged Pearl in the town with Hester fulfilled Pearl’s wishes. The red mark on Dimmesdale’s chest is possibly a mark from his guilt. When he showed the people in town by ripping off his shirt, it represented his guilt ending because he has been meaning to tell the whole town of his
The Market Place- Hester is going to the scaffold with Pearl.
The Recognition- Hester sees a man standing by an Indian with deformed shoulders.
The Interview- Hester meets Roger Chillingworth and he wants Hester to keep the secret of his identity.
“But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rosebush, covered in this month of June” (46)
The rosebush could represent the hope of all the prisoners to leave because they are all stuck in prison. Roses are usually fragile, while prisons are usually dangerous, and this image of a rosebush next to the prison door shows relief that there is still life outside of the prison full of darkness.
Hawthorne described Hester as having “dark and abundant” hair that is “so glossy that it threw off the sunshine”. The wording about the sunshine foreshadows what …show more content…
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter- Dimmesdale tears his shirt open and dies at the end of his sermon.
Conclusion- Hester continues to wear the scarlet letter A and it is put on her tombstone when she dies.
“She thought of the dim forest, with its little dell of solitude, and love”(234)
The forest is a place where others can connect but in town, Hester and Dimmesdale are not allowed to know each other. In the forest, there are no man made rules that will stop them from knowing each other.
Pearl got what she wanted from Dimmesdale so she decided to kiss him and it symbolized his guilt ending. The fact that Dimmesdale acknowledged Pearl in the town with Hester fulfilled Pearl’s wishes. The red mark on Dimmesdale’s chest is possibly a mark from his guilt. When he showed the people in town by ripping off his shirt, it represented his guilt ending because he has been meaning to tell the whole town of his