The black man is Hester
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Pearl asks Hester to tell her a story about the Black Man, who is rumored to have taken Hester's hand and led her to make a deal with the devil. Pearl wants to hear more about this mysterious figure and the consequences of dealing with him.
Hester tells Pearl that she has no father and that she was born from sin. She refuses to reveal the identity of Pearl's father, choosing to protect his secret.
Pearl continuously asks her mother, Hester, about Dimmesdale's connection to them. She questions Hester about why they stand separately from him, why he is reluctant to acknowledge them, and why he doesn't openly embrace their public shaming and punishment. Through these inquiries, Pearl is seeking the truth of their familial ties and the reasons behind Dimmesdale's actions.
After being tormented relentlessly by Dr. Chillingworth and not fully understanding the purpose of his treatment, Dimmesdale asks Hester exactly who he is and why this is happening. Hester then confesses that Chillingworth is actually her husband. Initially, angry at the news, he accepts her apology and forgives her.
Mistress Hibbins is a witch, who attends meetings in the woods and is said to hang out with the Black Man, which is the devil.
Hester asks Dimmesdale to plead for her and he finds an argument that wins Bellingham: "It was meant for a blessing--for the one blessing of her life! It was meant, doubtless, the mother herself hath told us, for a retribution, too; a torture to be felt at many an unthought-of moment; a pang, a sting, an ever-recurring agony, in the midst of a troubled joy!"
Roger Chillingworth asks Hester to keep the secret that he is her husband and that he is seeking revenge on the man who had an affair with her.
HE ASkS HESTER TO KEEP HiS iDENiTy A SECRET BECAUSE HE WAS HER HUSBAND AND HE MiGht GEt PUNiSHED AS WELL BUt HE ALSO ASKED HER TO kEEP HiS iDENiTy A SECRET BECAUSE SHE DiD NOt REVEAL THE iDENTiTy OF THE FATHER OF HER BABy PEARL
There are three main scaffold scenes in the Scarlet Letter. The fist is in the beginning of the novel, when Hester has to go up on the scaffold with Pearl in front of the entire town. The second is in the middle of the night, when Hester and Pearl find Dimmsdale on the scaffold. Pearl stands between Hester and Dimmsdale, holding both their hands and linking them together. The third scaffold scene is at the end of the novel when Dimmsdale asks Hester and Pearl to join him on the scaffold in pulblic, during one of his sermons. He confesses his crime and Pearl finally finds out who her father is. These scenes are used as a unifying device throughout the novel. In the first scene, Hester and Pearl are unified together, in front of the rest of the town. In the second scene, Pearl is the link between Hester and Dimmsdale, which brings them together - except it's in the middle of the night, so it isn't public unification. In the third scene, all three are united together on the scaffold, in front of the whole town. In that scene, Pearl's life id fulfilled because she knows who her father is, and Dimmsdale can finally stop suffering internally because he confessed.
Don't know his relationship but he asks her to reveal the father of her sinful child.
One example of foreshadowing is when Chillingworth is talking to Hester in the dungeon. He keeps saying "He will be known! He will be known! He will be known!" Here, Chillingworth is talking about how he will find out who the father of Hester's child is, as this is the man who wronged both Chillingworth and Hester. Another example is some of the scaffold scenes. In the second scaffold scene, which takes place at night, Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl stand on the scaffold together holding hands. Pearl asks Dimmesdale if they will stand on the scaffold together the next day, in which Dimmesdale replies that they will another day, but not tomorrow. This foreshadows the last scaffold scene, where Dimmesdale calls Hester and Pearl to the scaffold during the Election Procession.
Dimmesdale asks Hester if she has found peace because he himself is deeply troubled and seeks some kind of solace or reassurance through her experience. He may also be trying to gauge her emotional state and see if she has come to terms with their shared secret.