Hester thinks about her past while she is on the scaffold. She thinks about her family, her husband, and her time in Europe with him.
Hester Prynne is taken to the scaffold in the market place so that she may be publicly shamed. While in the scaffold Hester thinks about her parents, her new life, and her childhood.
while on the scaffold, she sees her husband who left town some while ago. She notices him, and also notices that he looks a lot different.
his one shoulder is higher than the other. This is Hester's husband
Hester is judged harshly by the Puritan community while standing on the scaffold, as they view her adultery as a great sin. She endures public humiliation and ostracization for her actions, serving as an example of what happens when one strays from the strict moral codes of the society.
When Hester is forced to stand upon the scaffold, she reminisces about her earlyyears, life in England before she moved to Boston and her mother and father.For further insight, I recommend No Fear Literature-The Scarlet Letter produced by sparknotes.com or the shorter simpler summery and analysis also by sparknotes.com
While standing on the scaffold, Hester's memories of her infancy, childhood, and the early days of her adulthood are playing through her mind like a movie. "Reminiscences, the most trifling and immaterial, passages of infancy and school-days, sports, childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden years, came swarming back upon her". (Hawthorne 56) Hester mutes her situation by reviewing memories of her childhood. However, her memories eventually fade into her present, horrendous situation on the scaffold.
These are the words of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter." She is urging the townspeople to maintain peace and restraint while avoiding judgments and criticisms of her. Hester is aware of the impact of the scarlet letter on her reputation and her own emotional turmoil.
While standing on the scaffold Hester recognizes a deformed man standing on the outskirts of the crowd and becomes terrified, holding Pearl closer to her chest. The story says that when he recognized Hester standing alone on the scaffold "a writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them . . ." but that he gestures to her to keep quiet about his identity. It is later revealed that his man, who goes by Roger Chillingworth, is actually Hester's husband Roger Prynne and he is so eaten up with the taste for revenge that his deformity is a representation of the evil inside him. He wants to see the man who impregnated his wife be punished at her side.
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Her husband, Chillingworth, visits her in prison.