Hester Prynne And Dimmesdale In Scarlet Letter

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In the book, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the character that suffers the most through the story is Hester Prynne. She is required to face public shame, unlike Dimmesdale who is the other person who committed adultery with her. The court makes her wear the scarlet letter so that everyone knows that she is the person that committed adultery, but the other person is not known and does not need to wear one.
In the second chapter of the story she is up on the scaffold and there are some people talking in the crowd. These two ladies are talking and one wants Hester to have more than a letter on her clothes, but she wants one branded into her forehead because she is able to cover the letter up, but the other woman says “Let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.” (Hawthorne 39). This shows how Hester might be able to hide the fact that she committed adultery from people that don’t already know, but she will never be able to hide it from …show more content…
This shows how Hester is the character that suffers the most because even though it is over both her and Dimmesdale’s graves, she has been the one who had to suffer the whole book. From the beginning Hester is the character who is required to stand on the scaffold and be publicly humiliated while Dimmesdale is still looked at as a good person and that he has done nothing wrong. Another thing is that the letter “A” will stay with her for eternity.
All of these things are why Hester is the Character who suffers the most through the book. She is forced to wear the scarlet letter “A” on her clothes all of the time, Her husband comes to Boston and tells her that he is going to find the person who she committed adultery with and kill him, and she is forced to have the “A” with her for the rest of

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