What news does the shipmaster ask Pearl to tell Hester? Same answer as number 2. Who empowered Dimmesdale to stand on the scaffold? Hester and Perl carry Dimmsdale to go up on the scaffold and he leans heavily upon their shoulders. Describe the most significant thing Dimmesdale does in this chapter.
He stands on the scaffold with Hester and his daughter, showing everyone his badge of sin. What did Pearl do when standing next to her father on the scaffold?
Pearl kisses his lips, his confession has created sympathy in her heart, not just for him, but for her mother, as well. Describe what happens to Pearl during this final scaffold moment. As her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would change from the cold and distant child that she was, transforming the trouble child she once was.
What does Chillingworth do in response to Dimmesdale's actions at the scaffold? He tries to talk him out of confessing because once Dimmesdale escapes him, he will have nothing to live forward to.
What does Hawthorne say about what happened at the scaffold at the beginning of this chapter? Some blame it on Roger's drugs. Others claim it was as bright as the one on Hester Prynne's chest. While other claim that there was nothing there, and that his death in a sinful woman's arms was just an act of human righteousness.
What important lesson has Dimmesdale taught the people of the town? Find a quote that supports this. His death was a parable to teach people that we are all sinners in the eyes of God. Who did Chillingworth leave his property to? He left everything to Pearl. What details do we know about Chillingworth after reading this chapter?
That he dies a year after Dimmesdale and leaves all his fortune in Pearl's hands. Dimmesdale leaves the woods first, nearly accepting what has happened has been a fantasy. At the point when he thinks back, he sees Hester overloaded with pity and Pearl moving in light of the fact that he is no more. In this manner concluded, Dimmesdale is another man. Outline—Part The New Britain Occasion However this time the design is to commend the establishment of another senator, not to rebuff Hester Prynne.
The festival is generally calm, however the townspeople's "Elizabethan" love of wonder loans a quality of display to the goings-on. This section is classified "Pastor in a Labyrinth" in light of the fact that Dimmesdale is confounded on whether he has changed as an individual, or if the fiend has transformed him. He needs to disregard his motivations in which he has never experienced and that alarms him, just as confounds him.
Finally, he barely refrains from teaching bad words to a group of children and trading curses with a sailor. Mistress Hibbins invites Dimmesdale to the forest and tells him she admires the way he covers up his true feelings during the day.
But she knows she will see him in the forest with the Black Man when midnight comes. Dimmesdale hurries home and, because he is agitated, Chillingworth offers to give him some medicine to calm him down. Dimmesdale lies to Chillingworth, telling him that though he knows his medicine is dispensed by a loving hand, he does not need it. Then he goes to his study and furiously writes his Election Sermon. This entire chapter — note the title — focuses on the spiritual battle warring within Dimmesdale.
He has been transformed from the weak and dying man who went into the forest. Hawthorne here examines the nature of the fight and interjects his own comments at various points. When Dimmesdale says that he will leave after his Election Day sermon so that he will be seen as leaving "no public duty unperformed," Hawthorne writes, "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
His thinking has been transformed by his will and that of Hester. As if possessed, Dimmesdale returns to the town, a man on fire. He is tempted several times by the irrational, wild, blasphemous, and — what Dimmesdale calls "involuntary" — desire to do wicked things to members of his congregation and perfect strangers.
Even Mistress Hibbins recognizes him as a kindred spirit. Dimmesdale is the "wretched minister! Within the novel, they simply seem to have re-created the old order in the new world. Likewise, Hester and Dimmesdale are failing in their attempt to follow a higher truth. The most damning evidence of this is the fact that Dimmesdale is pleased that he will be able to stay in Boston long enough to preach the sermon for Election Day, a holiday that celebrates the forces that have tried to destroy the former lovers.
Seemingly without irony, he finds it the appropriate conclusion to his career. The struggle between individual identity and social identity remains an important theme. The thematic connection of sin with alienation and knowledge continues in these chapters. Dimmesdale returns to the village with a changed perspective. His experience in the wilderness has led him to question every aspect of his existence, and all of his usual behaviors are reversed. Dimmesdale walks a fine line between revelation and knowledge on the one hand, and destruction and evil on the other.
His devilish impulses—to say that the human soul is mortal and that oaths and curses are the best response to a cruel world—might be revelations. They could also be insidious lies that will lead to his damnation. When Dimmesdale ignores the young woman whom he encounters on the street, he clings to the values he ought, according to his newfound beliefs, to reject. Had he spoken to the young woman, he could have offered her a more realistic version of human experience.
Instead, he allows her to remain part of a system he has come to accept as corrupt, because he still lazily believes that the church offers her a way to salvation. Moreover, Dimmesdale worries that encountering her now, after his time in the woods, would somehow contaminate her, but what he fails to acknowledge fully is that the contamination has already occurred. Ace your assignments with our guide to The Scarlet Letter!
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