Wednesday, August 26, 2015

The beginning of a new life?

As the story progresses Hester has started to feel a propinquity with Reverend Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale as mentioned in earlier chapters has declining health and Hester starts to feel bad for him. Dimmesdale also starts to have fierce dreams of Hester pointing her finger at the letter on her dress and the then at the reverend's bosom. One night  Dimmesdale escapes his home and goes to the scaffold(yes, the one where Hester was publicly shamed for all possible eternity). Furthermore, he lets out a scream for help and no one hears him or so did they think. As Dimmesdale is up there he is overheard by baby Pearl whom is with her mother after checking measurements for Governor Winthrop's burial rope. Thereafter, all 3 stand on the scaffold together(awe moment) holding hands and the letter A appears in the sky which highly symbolizes hope for Pearl, Hester, and hopefully the Reverend. Right there and then Dimmesdale starts to realize that Chillingworth may be his enemy but he will not let his intuition get it the way of his thought process for he has sinned. Do you believe the reverend will eventually tell his ulteriored secret of sin.

3 comments:

  1. Please, I will enjoy any disagreements for what I have stated above.

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  2. I agree, I think the guilt will eventually consume him, as it has been, and he will confess.

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  3. I also agree with Pamela. Although he has been carrying his sin for the past seven years, there is going to be a point in time where he's tired of carrying around all that weight in his shoulders. I believe he is eventually going to confess.

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