What does Dimmesdale do and say after Hester firmly states that she will not reveal the name of her lover? He agrees to leave the colony, but he wants to finish is duties before he leaves.
She and other onlookers notice that Dimmesdale, who follows the town leaders, looks healthier and more energetic than he has in some time. Although only a few days have passed since he kissed her forehead next to the forest brook, Pearl barely recognizes the minister. She realizes what a great gulf there is between them, and she can scarcely forgive him for his remoteness.
Even Pearl does not recognize him because he has changed so completely. Meanwhile, Mistress Hibbins appears and speaks with Hester and Pearl. Therefore, Chillingworth would not be able to torture him.
Dimmesdale, leaving the church after his sermon, sees Hester and Pearl standing before the town scaffold. He impulsively mounts the scaffold with his lover and his daughter, and confesses publicly, exposing a scarlet letter seared into the flesh of his chest.
When Hester dies, she is buried next to Dimmesdale. He is unable to reveal his sin. At worst, Dimmesdale is a symbol of hypocrisy and self-centered intellectualism; he knows what is right but has not the courage to make himself do the public act.
When Hester tells him that the ship for Europe leaves in four days, he is delighted with the timing. The one place that Dimmesdale is safe from Chillingworth is. In their absence, the story of the scarlet letter grows into a legend. What does Pearl do right before Dimmesdale dies? What does Chillingworth do for Pearl after he dies?
Chillingworth leaves Pearl his inheritance after he dies. What do Pearl and Hester do after Chillingworth dies? Pearl is contrasted with Hester in The Scarlet Letter because she seems to be defined by her lawless and rebellious nature, while Hester is defined by her strict adherence to social rules, except for her one sin.
Reverend Dimmesdale dies of an illness that haunts his soul. Not only does Dimmesdale confess, but he must do so alone. Although Hester helps him to the scaffold where she was punished seven years before, she cannot help him make his peace with God. But both say physician Roger Chillingworth used poison to murder the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher who fathered a child by adulteress Hester Prynne.
In Hester's appealing to Dimmesdale for help, in Pearl's solemnly caressing his hand, and in the minister's answering kiss lie solid hints that Dimmesdale is Pearl's father.
Hester calls on her inner strength in her attempt to keep Pearl. She argues quite eloquently that the scarlet letter is a badge of shame to teach her child wisdom and help her profit from Hester's sin.
However, Pearl's refusal to answer the catechism question causes the decision of the Church and the State to go against her. Now Hester's only appeal is to Dimmesdale, the man whose reputation she could crush. Pearl once again reveals her wild and passionate nature. In saying that her mother plucked her from the wild roses that grew by the prison door, she defies both Church and State.
While such an answer seems precocious for a small child, the reader must remember that Hawthorne uses characters symbolically to present meaning. Pearl's action recalls Hester's defiance on the scaffold when she refuses to name the father of her child. The dual nature of Pearl's existence as both happiness and torture is restated in Hester's plea, and this point is taken up by Dimmesdale.
The minister's weakened condition and his obvious nervousness suggest how terribly he has been suffering with his concealed guilt. Nevertheless, Dimmesdale adds to Hester's plea when he states that Pearl is a "child of its father's guilt and its mother's shame" but still she has come from the "hand of God. The minister argues that Pearl will keep Hester from the powers of darkness. And so she is allowed to keep her daughter.
Those powers of darkness can be seen in both the strange conversation with Mistress Hibbins and also in the change in Chillingworth. As if to prove that Hester will be kept from the darkness by Pearl, Hawthorne adds the scene with Mistress Hibbins. While Mr. Wilson says of Pearl, "that little baggage has witchcraft in her," Hester says she would willingly have gone with the Black Man except for Pearl. These dark powers are also suggested by the fourth main character, Chillingworth.
The change noted by Hester in Chillingworth's physical appearance, now more ugly and dark and misshapen, is a hint that in the scholar's desire for revenge, evil is winning the battle within him and is reflected in his outward appearance. That Chillingworth is Dimmesdale's personal physician :and supposed friend gives him the opportunity to apply psychological pressure on the minister. Chillingworth's comment on Dimmesdale's strange earnestness and his statement that he could make a "shrewd guess at the father" suggest that he may already have decided on Dimmesdale's guilt.
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