Shortly after this incident, Chillingworth, too, dies, leaving a good amount of inheritance for Pearl. The controversy of seeing the same letter “A” carved on his chest also faces the same fierce refusal from a few in the crowd. Afterward, he dies in the arms of Hester. He climbs on the same scaffold to confess his guilt and tells everyone about his affair with Hester. Gaining strength from this new freedom from his shameful past, the church minister delivers a fiery sermon but suddenly loses his control. She begs him to leave Boston to start life afresh somewhere else. Later, Hester meets the minister and narrates her ordeal, telling him about her revengeful husband, Chillingworth. On the other hand, his deteriorating health also shocks Hester, who decides to break her silence. At last, he visits the site where Hester got punishment and confesses his guilt in isolation, for having no courage to do it publicly. The more the minister hides his guilt, the more tormenting it becomes for him. Soon he sees a symbol of shame on his chest. He, however, senses that this decline is due to some psychological guilt and not due to some physical ailment. It soon transpires in the town that Dimmesdale is witnessing a sharp decline in his health at which Chillingworth arrives at his lodging to treat him. Hester, immediately, sensing the upper-hand of the religious authority, pleas to Dimmesdale who asks Governor to stop this mother-daughter cruel segregation to which he agrees.
Therefore, she meets Bellingham, the Governor of the city, who is present with the church authorities, Dimmesdale as well as Wilson. Finding no other playmates, Pearl soon develops into an impulsive girl about whom the order of the church authorities soon arrives about separating her from her imperfect mother.Īdamant as she is in her refusal about uncovering the identity of her husband, she is adamant in handing over her girl. However, strangely, Pearl takes her “A” locket to her heart, always playing with it.
Living a quiet and simple life, she starts playing with her daughter to whom she names, Pearl. She takes shelter in a hut on the outskirts of town and earns her bread through her needlework skills. Hester willingly agrees to his proposal.Īfter she wins her release, she tries to settle in the town, but ultimately leaves for the outskirts facing staunch public resentment. He does not force her, however, but claims to know it one day and asks her not to reveal his identity. However, Hester faces his probe about the identity of the father of the girl to which she again refuses to share with him. As a physician he suggests her some herbs and plants, though, both of them talk about their marriage and their mistakes. When she reaches the prison cell, she meets her husband, Roger Chillingworth, in the guise of a physician. Meanwhile, the local church ministers, Arthur Dimmesdale and John Wilson ask her about the likely father of the child, but they also face her staunch refusal. Then, he angrily raises the voice for the punishment of the father of the child, too, but without becoming prominent in the crowd. Choosing the name of Roger Chillingworth, he soon discovers the truth about her from his inquiry from different people. He gestures to her to remain quiet to protect his own identity. Women, mostly jealous of her beauty and dignified manner, taunt her and ask her the name of her husband, receiving only her refusal in response.ĭuring the shaming ceremony, the woman happens to see her lost husband as a misshapen unknown person peering at her from the crowd. She is also forced to stand three hours on the scaffold to demonstrate that she feels ashamed at her sin. The crowd punishes her by making her wear a scarlet letter “A” on her dress to show the public that she is ashamed of her action. The story begins with a crowd preparing to punish a woman, Hester Prynne, for giving birth to a baby girl without revealing the husband’s identity.
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