She goes to Chillingworth and asks him to stop adding to Dimmesdale’s self-torment. Hester can see that the minister’s condition is worsening, and she resolves to intervene. Dimmesdale refuses Pearl’s request that he acknowledge her publicly the next day, and a meteor marks a dull red “A” in the night sky. Hester and Pearl join him, and the three link hands. One night, when Pearl is about seven years old, she and her mother are returning home from a visit to a deathbed when they encounter Dimmesdale atop the town scaffold, trying to punish himself for his sins. In the meantime, Hester’s charitable deeds and quiet humility have earned her a reprieve from the scorn of the community. One afternoon, while the minister sleeps, Chillingworth discovers a mark on the man’s breast (the details of which are kept from the reader), which convinces him that his suspicions are correct.ĭimmesdale’s psychological anguish deepens, and he invents new tortures for himself. Chillingworth also suspects that there may be a connection between the minister’s torments and Hester’s secret, and he begins to test Dimmesdale to see what he can learn. Chillingworth attaches himself to the ailing minister and eventually moves in with him so that he can provide his patient with round-the-clock care. Dimmesdale, however, appears to be wasting away and suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly caused by psychological distress. Community officials attempt to take Pearl away from Hester, but, with the help of Arthur Dimmesdale, a young and eloquent minister, the mother and daughter manage to stay together. Shunned by the community, they live in a small cottage on the outskirts of Boston. Hester supports herself by working as a seamstress, and Pearl grows into a willful, impish child. He reveals his true identity to no one but Hester, whom he has sworn to secrecy. The elderly onlooker is Hester’s missing husband, who is now practicing medicine and calling himself Roger Chillingworth. On this day Hester is led to the town scaffold and harangued by the town fathers, but she again refuses to identify her child’s father. She will not reveal her lover’s identity, however, and the scarlet letter, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. While waiting for her husband, Hester has apparently had an affair, as she has given birth to a child. The consensus is that he has been lost at sea. Hester’s husband, a scholar much older than she is, sent her ahead to America, but he never arrived in Boston.
A man in the crowd tells an elderly onlooker that Hester is being punished for adultery. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. The story begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan settlement. When the narrator lost his customs post, he decided to write a fictional account of the events recorded in the manuscript.
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In the customhouse’s attic, he discovered a number of documents, among them a manuscript that was bundled with a scarlet, gold-embroidered patch of cloth in the shape of an “A.” The manuscript, the work of a past surveyor, detailed events that occurred some two hundred years before the narrator’s time. The nameless narrator was the surveyor of the customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts. The Scarlet Letter opens with a long preamble about how the book came to be written. I previously used photography and my novel of choice was the ‘The Great Gatsby’ I studied the novel in A level English Literature so I am accustomed to the novel.įirst Novel I chose to research was ‘The Scarlet Letter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
I have chosen to revisit my summer project ‘Illustrate a Classic Novel’ as I really enjoyed that project and the freeness of which you could choose and media you would like to illustrate with.
This final project of the Graphic Design and Illustration stage of the course is complete, and for our final projects we are to choose one of our previous projects and revisit them.
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