Chillingworth, after slowly discovering that Dimmesdale was the one who committed adultery with Hester, had started an ever growing desire to have revenge on Dimmesdale. This corrupted him and turned him into a hideous person who's only purpose in life was to bring down Dimmsdale. Once Dimmesdale passed away, Chillingworth died shortly there after since he had no purpose for his life anymore. Dimmesdale, having had sinned with Hester, had condemned Hester with the Scarlet Letter which erupted tremendous guilt within his mind. This guilt weakened Dimmesdale and eventually lead to his death.
While she is married she find out she is pregnant with some else’s child. Puritans looked down upon this greatly. For her punishment, she was convicted of adultery, and forced to wear a scarlet letter, “A” on her dress for the rest of her life. When she was let out of prison, she had to stand on the scaffold for three hours and endure the stares of the townspeople. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many ways to characterize Hester Prynne, and to show her importance in the development of the plot.
The only way she can express her pain is by screaming. It is so injust that she is sent to Cauldstone as a result of her not being able to voice her feelings in they days following the rape. Esme begs her father not to leave her there: “'Don't leave me here!' she cries out. 'Please!
Truthfulness is the biggest theme through The Scarlet Letter, which is shown all throughout the novel by the characters falsehoods in their actions. Although the falsehoods committed affects most of the characters in the novel, the three main characters; Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth are the ones whose lives are the most altered. The ending of the novel shows all the truth hidden by these characters, and reveals each lie that affected their life. The four main falsehoods in the novel are Hester and Dimmesdale’s initial falsehood towards Hester’s husband, Hester’s falsehood towards Dimmesdale in concealing Chillingworth’s identity, Chillingworth’s falsehood towards Dimmesdale, and Dimmesdale’s falsehood towards everyone in concealing his sin. The initial wrong committed in The Scarlet Letter was adultery, a sin very easily condemned by the Puritans in the mid 1600’s.
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter focuses on the choices of paths Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth, the three main characters, whose decisions ultimately decide their fates in the conclusion of the book. The beginning of the book opens with Hester receiving her punishment for adultery. She is publicly displayed holding her baby for her punishment, yet she does not reveal who the father of the baby is. As she is displayed, she is asked by Dimmesdale, the minister and the father of the baby, whether she wants to reveal the other perpetrator to the crowd, but Hester refuses. Momentarily afterwards, Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, is seen in the crowd, and introduced.
This torture lasted for months. Towards the end of Sylvia’s life she tried to escape and failed. This infuriated Gertrude so much that she proceeded to tie Sylvia to a bedpost and carve the words “IM A PROSTITUTE AND PROUD” into her stomach with a hot sewing needle. Eventually Sylvia died of malnutrition and bodily stress. Gertrude was sent to jail for life and was released twenty years later for good behavior.
His need for revenge was so great that he would do and did the unthinkable; Arthur Dimmesdale was trapped inside a prison of guilt, and Roger Chillingworth mentally tortured him. Chillingworth was not interested in justice because he sought the deliberate destruction of others rather than addressing the wrong doings of their actions. His desire to hurt others stands in contrast to Hester and Dimmesdale's sin, which had love, not hate, as its intent. Another way and the most common way that The Scarlet Letter is interpreted can be through sin, because sin plays one of the biggest roles in the novel. It was due to the sin of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale that Pearl was consummated, but it was a sin that came out of love for each other.
Summary of the Short story “Spilled Salt” The America short story “Spilled Salt”, published in 1990, is about Myrna and her son Kenny. Kenny has just been released from prison, where he was in because he raped a girl four years ago. Myrna wasn't happy about when he arrives at home, because she doesn’t want him to stay at her house after the incident. She doesn't want to lose her dear memories of the boy he once was. She loves the boy he was four years ago and not the man who's standing in front of her.
John Procter and Abigail Williams’ sin was the same adulterous sin as Hester’s in The Scarlet Letter. Both sins of adultery, both in a puritan society, but the outcome of redemption turned out very different. In “The Crucible” the strive for redemption was more between John and Abigail, not John and the town, or Abigail and the town. John Procter, a married man, committed adultery with Abigail Williams, a young woman. Abigail Lusted for
Words can create a certain connotations in every situation. The word “accuser” means “someone who imputes guilt or blame”, but also in the Old Testament of the Bible the word accuser was another name for Satan, the adversary, and one who opposes (New World Encyclopedia, 2011). Thus being said immediately any word being defined by something evil has a negative connotation, which impacts the people and situation in which the word is used. To call a victim of rape an accuser has major psychological effects on the victim, jurors and judges, the public and potential rapists. Sexual assault is one of the most under reported crimes, and 60% of rapes are still being unreported (RAINN.org, 2009).