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Tuesday, November 9, 2004
The Scarlet Letter
1.The most vague description of this masterpiece is “A story of the life of a woman after she is found for the sin of adultery,” but there is more to this tale. Hester Prynne, being the woman found guilty, had refused to release the knowledge of whom she sinned herself with. The towns people, not once laying a finger on this woman, could only treat her worse by shunning- making as if she had never existed –or by death itself; yet, with, after the years gone by, she gained a respect from her actions of giving all extra income to the needy, helping whenever possible with the ill, and heading no complaint of wearing the scarlet “A” on her chest as a badge of her sin.
This too, is a very simple description for this is a tale of many persons, one being Hester’s husband, long presumed dead by sea wreck or some other misfortune that just so happened to have ailed him, had appeared at Hester’s first public showing; this man of the latter, Roger Chillingworth as he requested to be called, seeked revenge against his wife and the man who aided in her betrayal to him; Chillingworth had decided the letter on Hester’s bosom would avenge him enough, so it was up to himself to torture the poor man unknown to all but his wife.
Slowly throughout the book, around half way, the reader can start to have a pretty good idea who the secretive man of sin is; none but Reverend Arthur Dimesdale himself! At the end of the book, seven years post the sin committed with a small girl-child to prove it, Dimesdale went public with his secret, in front of the whole town plus some, and died almost instantly afterward.
2.This book took place in the early 1600’s; a revolution was on the mind of no person at that time, just separation from the Church of England. But, I did recognize Governor Winthrop as the Puritan leader, he was mentioned about twice.
3.Like I said, the story line is a few centuries ahead of the Revolutionary War, but if I were asked to tell which one of the main characters changed the most it would be Chillingworth. Now, none of the characters changed much in the book, but are described in the past tense while in someone’s memory. Hester tells the reader of a time when her husband is a very studious, scholarly, person; with a cold heart yes, but still he cared for others. And the Chillingworth we became accustomed to is not just heartless, but also finds himself to be the worker of the devil, bringing out his vengeance upon Dimesdale.
~Taleybo
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