he puts his hand over his heart
because the jailer had become sick
sin and disgrace
Reverend Dimmesdale's health begins to fail after his emotional confession on the scaffold, where he reveals his sin of adultery to the townspeople. The burden of keeping his sin a secret for so long takes a physical toll on him, leading to a decline in his health that becomes more evident as the story progresses.
Hester becomes a symbol of sin and of women's frailty and simple passions.
In "The Scarlet Letter," Roger Chillingworth and Mr. Dimmesdale do not become good friends. Chillingworth is actually the antagonist who seeks vengeance against Dimmesdale, the father of Hester Prynne's child, and tries to torment him psychologically. Their relationship is one of manipulation and deceit rather than friendship.
Hawthorne makes it fairly explicit that Pearl is the symbolic representation of Hester Prynne's scarlet letter: she is the product of her adultery, and as she grows, Pearl comes to embody the letter itself. When she sees her mother and Dimmesdale in the forest, then, the absence of the scarlet letter makes her mother foreign to her. The scarlet letter is her connection to her mother; in a way, she is the scarlet letter. To see her mother without it, then, is as if to see a stranger. The letter has consumed and subsumed Hester so much that without the letter, she is not the same person. Any distance between Hester and letter is, to Pearl, an impossibility, so thoroughly has Hester's life become her adultery, and taking it off is to make her unrecognizable to her daughter.
They would be scalped.
In "The Scarlet Letter," Roger Chillingworth assumes the identity of a doctor upon arriving in Boston. Under this guise, he gains access to treating Reverend Dimmesdale and uses his position to further his revenge against him.
The two towering works of early American fiction created by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne are Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter. Both of these novels have become classics of American literature and explore themes of morality, identity, and the human condition.
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