Scarlet Letter Revenge Quotes

Dimmesdale is a symbol of dishonesty and is a self-centered individual; he knows what he must do in order to make it honorable but lacks the courage and confidence to make himself public. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester tells Dimmesdale that the ship for Europe leaves in four days. He is delighted with the matter of being able to "fulfill his public duties" and give his Election Sermon before leaving. Although from this disdainful act, he worries that the congregation may notice the features found in Pearl’s face may be identical to his

I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, nor other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds, that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance. They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.' 'Perchance,' said Mr. Dimmesdale, 'he earnestly desired it, but could not.'" Chapter 10, pg. 120

“On one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him." Chapter 1, pg. 46

Revenge is the act of retaliating in order to get even with someone for the wrongs they have done. In the novel “The Scarlet Letter,” the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, uses Roger Chillingworth to reap revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale for his affair with his wife, Hester Prynne. Chillingworth becomes so devoted to revenge that is all his life revolves around. Chillingworth then devotes the rest of his life to taking revenge on Dimmesdale.

In the novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the motif of revenge is evident as characters face consequences for their earlier actions. At the beginning of the novel, Hassan uses a slingshot to defend Amir from Assef. When Assef “raised his fist and came for” Amir, Hassan immediately threatened to use the slingshot to hurt Assef. Hassan even threatened Assef by saying, “‘If you make a move, they’ll have to change your nickname from Assef ‘the Ear Eater’ to ‘One-Eyed Assef,’ because I have this rock pointed at your left eye,’” (42). Later in the novel, Assef mocks Hassan by saying, “‘Where is your slingshot, Hazara?’” (71). Assef also mocks Hassan’s threat of aiming the slingshot at his left eye, “‘What was it you said? ‘They’ll have to call you One-Eyed Assef.’ That’s right.

We find out how much Roger and Hester have in common. They are both holding a deep secret, they are unhappy and they both have a very desirable skill and both live on the outskirts of this Puritan society.

Hester “felt herself no longer so inadequate to cope with Roger Chillingworth as on that night, abased by sin, and half maddened by the ignominy that was still new, when they had talked together in the prison-chamber. She had climbed her way, since then, to a higher point” (138). At the beginning of Chapter 2, Hester first sees Roger Chillingworth in the audience as she is standing on the scaffold. There, he took “possession of her thoughts” (52), filling her with such fear that she pressed her child close to her bosom with a “convulsive force” (52). Later on, Roger Chillingworth visits Hester in her prison cell, and is revealed to be her husband, someone who has been missing for the past two years. Throughout Chapters

Arthur Dimmsdale is first described as being "a person of very striking aspect, with a white, lofty, and impending brow, large, brown, melancholy eyes, and a mouth which, unless when he forcibly compressed it, was apt to be sensibly and a vast power of restraint." (pg. 50 Hawthorne).

Hypocrisy is a belief that is also strongly expressed in the novel. A character who accurately demonstrates this belief is Governor Richard Bellingham. In the beginning of the novel, he is introduced as a luxurious man with elegant embroidered clothes: “He wore a dark feather in his hat, a border of embroidery on his cloak, and a black velvet tunic beneath” (Hawthorne 60). This is ironic because the Puritans in Hester’s society were against embroidery and elaborate clothing. In fact, they were known to dress in mostly dull and drab colors and fabrics. This is seen in the beginning of the novel, when there is “A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments, and gray, steeple-crowned hats” (Hawthorne 45) waiting to catch a glimpse of Hester as she leaves the jailhouse. This is also seen when they disprove of Hester’s embellishments on the dresses she makes for herself and for others: “So

He sees his former wife being shamed by the town for her sin of adultery and from that point on he is set on finding the man which whom had sinned and committed the same terrible crime as Hester Prynne. He later has a sense that it is reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. He furthers his investigation on Dimmesdale and becomes more and more evil by the day. Later on he persuades Dimmesdale to move in with him to help him as he is getting sick. At least that’s what he told him. In Roger Chillingworth’s head this is the perfect opportunity to finally find out if he is right about Dimmesdale being the father of Pearl. The shame and guilt held within Arthur Dimmesdale has made him grow very ill and he does not sleep very often because the sin of adultery keeps him awake in the late hours of the night. However, one night he slips up. He falls asleep and Roger Chillingworth takes advantage of this. He opens the shirt of sir Dimmesdale and sees what we can only assume is a scarlet letter “A” over his heart. Throughout all of Chillingworth’s mental torture and studies he does on the reverend he has been giving him medicine. Nobody knows if the medicine given to Arthur is helping him stay alive or if it’s slowly killing him inside and

Desire, passion, love, sex, adultery, evil, religion, law, and judgement are the primary topics that make reading The Scarlet Letter more interesting. Caught up in passion, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, succumb to their desire in the forest. Hester is a married woman and Arthur Dimmesdale is the Puritan community minister. Their affair is adultery and brought to light when Hester becomes pregnant. Pearl is the illegitimate daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale.

Guilt can kill a person- just ask Arthur Dimmesdale. Thus, a person suffers from guilt according to his individual conscience. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne teaches the reader how one’s reaction to shame may differ from another person’s. How one deals with shame shows their personal characteristics. The characters involved in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, all show the different types of reactions someone might have from the burden of guilt.

While Pearl may seem a secondary character at first, we soon realize that she actually has more parts to play, both in Hester's life and in the story itself. We'll run through most of her childhood, beginning when she's a child, then we'll explore a closer look on her personality, and the inner workings of her childhood. Lastly, we'll see the tragedy and death that changed her into the woman she is now. " But she named the infant 'Pearl,' as being of great price- purchased with all she had- her mother's only pleasure."

The proverb “revenge is a dish best served cold” conveys that revenge is a good thing. However, Nathaniel Hawthorne believes otherwise, as shown through his novel The Scarlet Letter. By utilizing specific symbolism and analogies to depict Roger Chillingworth’s transformation, Hawthorne explores how the thirst for revenge is like a leech that can consume all aspects of a person’s life, leaving them with only emptiness once they achieve their goal. When Chillingworth visits Hester in her prison, Hawthorne’s symbolism immediately reveals exactly how the lust for revenge overcame him, and how it will affect him in the future. During their interactions in the cell, Chillingworth offers medicine to Hester and Pearl in a seemingly kind-hearted manner.

Life is constantly putting everyone through trials that test our perspective on what is right or wrong in society; some people view it as a straight line that divides right and wrong, while others believe there is no line, only a blur. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s,” The Scarlet Letter”, tells the tale of the adulterous, Hester Prynne, ( the main character ) who struggles to find out what is right and what is wrong throughout the struggle of being seen as a living punishment of adultery.In "The Scarlett Letter", a rosebush is used to depict Hester's morality and the way she tries to develop a balance between keeping secret the father of her child and accepting the way society portrays her. The townspeople always denunciate her and go as far as calling her "The spawn of satan"(51).