Significance of Title: The title of this novel signifies the main character’s (Hester) crime, sin, and representation in her town. The Scarlet Letter “A” embodied in threads of gold is to be worn on her chest as a public acknowledgment of her adultery, which make the letter attract even more attention. As a result, Hester experience disrespect, hardship, and an outcast from the public. Another significance of the scarlet letter is Dimmesdale, whose the father of Hester’s daughter, Pearl, because both of them suffered from their sin. However, Dimmesdale’s sin is hidden from the public and instead, he experience guilt, and chest pain by a hidden scarlet letter on his heart.
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It is mentioned that in chapter 4, when Hester and her husband come face to face for the first time when is called to her prison cell, he has changed his identity to Roger Chillingworth, a “leech,” or doctor. He then spend the rest of his life torturing Dimmesdale, whom Hester cheated him with. In the beginning, Chillingworth was so immersed that he said, “Thou hast escaped me!” However, in the end, he begged for forgiveness, “May God forgive thee...Thou, too, hast deeply sinned!” Eventually, he realizes what he done wrong and gave his fortune to Pearl as an apology and a confession. This depicts that making revenge your reason to live isn't great for your longevity and happiness, because somewhere in the end or along the way, guilt builds. Overall, the moral lesson is that “holding a grudge doesn’t make you strong; It makes you bitter. Forgiving doesn’t make you weak; it sets you …show more content…
Hester encounters wearing a scarlet A to mark her shame, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth seeks revenge on her and her lover, Dimmesdale. Overall, The Scarlet Letter’s centers around evil, sin, nature, and the punishing scaffold.
Symbols (1-3 significant ones and how they are used): + Chillingworth, the evil/villain character of the novel might have been taken as the representative of Satan as it has been depicted in Christian mythology. Like Satan in Christian myth which wants to take revenge against god, Chillingworth also wants to take revenge on the man who has betrayed him. In that sense too, this novel is related to the Christian myth. + Meteor; In Chapter 12, a letter “A” appeared in the sky, marked out in “dull red light.” This symbol can be interpreted differently by each character, and one of them symbolizes Dimmesdale’s sin, as though God were trying to expose his secret to the entire word. For the Puritans, they also interpreted as a message from God but as a commemoration of the recently deceased Governor by proclaiming him to be an
Significant Author Facts: (style, themes) + Hawthorne …show more content…
It is mentioned that in chapter 4, when Hester and her husband come face to face for the first time when is called to her prison cell, he has changed his identity to Roger Chillingworth, a “leech,” or doctor. He then spend the rest of his life torturing Dimmesdale, whom Hester cheated him with. In the beginning, Chillingworth was so immersed that he said, “Thou hast escaped me!” However, in the end, he begged for forgiveness, “May God forgive thee...Thou, too, hast deeply sinned!” Eventually, he realizes what he done wrong and gave his fortune to Pearl as an apology and a confession. This depicts that making revenge your reason to live isn't great for your longevity and happiness, because somewhere in the end or along the way, guilt builds. Overall, the moral lesson is that “holding a grudge doesn’t make you strong; It makes you bitter. Forgiving doesn’t make you weak; it sets you …show more content…
Hester encounters wearing a scarlet A to mark her shame, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth seeks revenge on her and her lover, Dimmesdale. Overall, The Scarlet Letter’s centers around evil, sin, nature, and the punishing scaffold.
Symbols (1-3 significant ones and how they are used): + Chillingworth, the evil/villain character of the novel might have been taken as the representative of Satan as it has been depicted in Christian mythology. Like Satan in Christian myth which wants to take revenge against god, Chillingworth also wants to take revenge on the man who has betrayed him. In that sense too, this novel is related to the Christian myth. + Meteor; In Chapter 12, a letter “A” appeared in the sky, marked out in “dull red light.” This symbol can be interpreted differently by each character, and one of them symbolizes Dimmesdale’s sin, as though God were trying to expose his secret to the entire word. For the Puritans, they also interpreted as a message from God but as a commemoration of the recently deceased Governor by proclaiming him to be an