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26 January 2017
Glynn
English 11H
The Significance of the Scaffold In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the scaffold serves as an integral part of the story. Every significant scene in the book occurs on the scaffold. It helps express the most important themes of the story. Throughout the book Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl all go through transformations and the scaffold appears periodically, acting as a constant. In Puritan society, a scaffold is used as a place to punish prisoners by making them face their entire town. For Hester, it began as “a journey of some length…she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for
26 January 2017
Glynn
English 11H
The Significance of the Scaffold In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the scaffold serves as an integral part of the story. Every significant scene in the book occurs on the scaffold. It helps express the most important themes of the story. Throughout the book Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl all go through transformations and the scaffold appears periodically, acting as a constant. In Puritan society, a scaffold is used as a place to punish prisoners by making them face their entire town. For Hester, it began as “a journey of some length…she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for