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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the three scaffold scenes provide the novel with basic structure and perfect balance. The scaffold scenes unite the plot and the four main characters together. Also, each scene atop the scaffold symbolizes a major turning point in the novel, where sin is either confessed and/or developed. The first scaffold scene is where the reader meets all of the significant characters; Hester Prynne, Pearl, Rev. Dimmesdale, and Mr. Chillingworth. In this important scene, the novel focuses on Hester's newly found scarlet letter that she got from committing adultery and not telling who her partner in sin was. It is in the first scene that Hester confesses her sin and for the first time displays her scarlet letter to the townspeople. From this point on the whole community shuns her and looks down upon her, as she is a sinner. Before Hester climbs the scaffold she feels weak and grim, due to her stay in the town prison, yet once upon it, she proves her strength by displaying her beautifully embroidered "A" to the townspeople for judging. Also up to this point in the novel Hester's child, Pearl, is just an innocent baby, free of sin. However after Hester's display she now live
He screams his confession to a town locked deep in sleep hoping to relieve his despair, but his anguish falls upon deaf ears, and his secret remains just that, a secret. The second scaffold scene starts with Dimmesdale. He is standing alone atop the scaffold, with the weight of his sin hanging heavy upon his heart. They hold hands and form an "electric chain" that gives the reverend new life and energy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Pearl then gives the Reverend a kiss that seems to break the spell of her symbolizing sin. With his hand gripping his heart and a death-like hue on his face, the Reverend climbs the scaffold for the last time with Hester and Pearl. s on as a symbol of love, a product of her parents sin. This makes Dimmesdale feel the pain to an even greater extent and he is hurt by it. Finally though on his deathbed, Dimmesdale feels obligated to reveal his sin that he has been hiding from everyone for some time now. Here Pearl finally realizes the truth about Dimmesdale being her father, when she asks him if he will stand with her and her mother at noontide tomorrow, and he refuses saying they will only stand together on judgment day. With the death of Dimmesdale, Chillingworth too has no more to live for as he has no ones life to make miserable, so he, too, dies. It is atop the scaffold where all major turning points and confessions occur and bring the story together. Dimmesdale, wants to confess his sin and this angers Chillingworth, as it leaves him with no mission in life.
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