Throughout The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne faced an adultery scandal. While reading the novel you discover that towards the end the meaning of her sin has changed. Hester committed a sin with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and had a baby. Once that sin was committed she has to wear the letter ‘A’ on her chest and face public humiliation.
In a small town in Boston it's wrong to have interactions with someone while you are married. Fortunately for Hester, her and Dimmesdale perpetrated this sin and had a daughter, Pearl, together. Reverend Dimmesdale “takes it grievously to heart that such a scandal should have came upon his congregation,” though he was involved in the sin. (Hawthorne 58) Everyone in the town doesn’t know that Dimmesdale was the …show more content…
They met up in the forest and shared a romantic moment together. Whereas in the beginning of the book Hester couldn’t even face Dimmesdale since he was the father of Pearl. But by the end of the book they grew back together and Dimmesdale could finally stand on the scaffold with them. In the beginning Dimmesdale had told Pearl that he will not hold her mother and her hand on the scaffold. That caused Pearl to get upset with him and thought he would never do it. In the end Dimmesdale finally stood up on the scaffold with his family and confessed the sin he had done. But after confessing he died, no one really knows why but he just died in Hester’s …show more content…
Hester had to face punishment for the crime she commited and by the end she made up for the sin she made. Towards the end Hester was able to help other women with their problems and she was not truly “sinned” anymore. She has also grew as a character. Her relationship with Dimmesdale has gotten better that they can actually talk. They met up in the forest and were in a relationship for a short period of time before they both died. But they both were happy together and were the happy family they should have been the while time. Hester Prynne grew as a women and a mother throughout the book and developed into a women who learned from her
In a small town in Boston it's wrong to have interactions with someone while you are married. Fortunately for Hester, her and Dimmesdale perpetrated this sin and had a daughter, Pearl, together. Reverend Dimmesdale “takes it grievously to heart that such a scandal should have came upon his congregation,” though he was involved in the sin. (Hawthorne 58) Everyone in the town doesn’t know that Dimmesdale was the …show more content…
They met up in the forest and shared a romantic moment together. Whereas in the beginning of the book Hester couldn’t even face Dimmesdale since he was the father of Pearl. But by the end of the book they grew back together and Dimmesdale could finally stand on the scaffold with them. In the beginning Dimmesdale had told Pearl that he will not hold her mother and her hand on the scaffold. That caused Pearl to get upset with him and thought he would never do it. In the end Dimmesdale finally stood up on the scaffold with his family and confessed the sin he had done. But after confessing he died, no one really knows why but he just died in Hester’s …show more content…
Hester had to face punishment for the crime she commited and by the end she made up for the sin she made. Towards the end Hester was able to help other women with their problems and she was not truly “sinned” anymore. She has also grew as a character. Her relationship with Dimmesdale has gotten better that they can actually talk. They met up in the forest and were in a relationship for a short period of time before they both died. But they both were happy together and were the happy family they should have been the while time. Hester Prynne grew as a women and a mother throughout the book and developed into a women who learned from her