As the chaos of a bustling town unfolds the townspeople, fix their eyes toward the embarrassed Hester Prynne, as she stands all alone on the scaffold. The scaffold, a place of punishment for her sin, is where the young Hester stands three different times of the novel. The community begins to show a harsh attitude towards Hester and then gradually accept her throughout the novel. Through these scenes, the audience of readers begin to understand what Hester is going through. Hester’s self-confidence and self-esteem begin to decrease as the people of the town call her names and exlude her, but in the end Hester proves to be a strong, responsible, young woman. In the first Scaffold scene, the community views Hester as impure and sinful and,…show more content… The letter that people have used to identify her with is no longer representing her mistake of adultery but represents able because of her strength and ability of being a good mother. In the final scaffold scene, Dimmesdale is about to bless the participants running for governor. He is extremely nervous and anxious before he performs this speech to the crowd. His appearance before his speech is described. “How feeble and pale he looked amid all his triumph! The energy--or say, rather, the inspiration which had held him up, until he should have delivered the sacred message that brought its own strength along with it from heaven--was withdrawn, now that it had so faithfully performed its office. The glow, which they had just before beheld burning on his cheek, was extinguished, like a flame that sinks down hopelessly among the late-decaying embers.” (Hawthorne page #) Dimmesdale also passes out on the scaffold and later dies because of a cause that is unknown to the community. The community is shocked and reacts with confusion. They focus their eyes on the fallen minister and are distracted away from
