Rising Action: When Hester stands on the scaffold enduring public humiliation and Dimmesdale stands by spectating when he also committed the sin. Exposition: In Boston, Massachusetts, Hester Prynne is accused of adultery and is pending her punishment which is to where a scarlet letter “A” on her chest. |
Climax: When Rev. Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne and Little Pearl stand on the scaffold as they gaze into the sky and sees the letter “A”. The Scarlet Letter By Nathanial Hawthrone
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Falling Action: Falling Action: When Hester realizes that Roger Chilingworth is making Rev. Dimmesdale sick; she confronts him while he was picking herbs for his medical uses. Chilingworth refuses to stop his revengeful work and threatens to tell Dimmesdale and Hester’s' secret to the towns’ people. Denouement: Chillingworth gets his revenge on Dimmesdale and after their deaths, Hester, who moved to Europe, comes back without Pearl. Pearl gets married in Europe. |
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Tone: Thoughtful in the beginning and staightforward and created suspicion with irony in the body of narrative. Mood: melancholy and Foreshadowing Theme: Sin, Evil nature, Free ones self from guilt thorugh suffering, Society and Identity. LITERARY DEVICES Sight: While standing on the scaffold looking up at the sky Hester,Pearl and Rev. Dimmesdale sees the scarlet letter "A" on (Page 144). This contribute to mood by it's gloomy nature and theme by providing an example of suffering from the sin's commited by the characters. Simile: Nathanial Hawthrone uses "At his arrival in the market place, and some time before she saw him, the stranger had bent his eyes on Hester Prynne. it was carelessly, at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import unless they bear relation to something within his mind" (Page 67, Chapeter 3). This similie provides an understanding of how evil Hester's husband, who calls him self Roger Chilingsworth truly is. Personification: "But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this moth 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" (Page 56, Chapter 1). This describes the prison's environment and its' effect on people. Foreshadowing: "'He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost; but I shall read it in his heart.'"(Page 80, Chapter 4). Thisforeshadows and contribute to theme by providing an example of how Roger Chillingworth will discover who this unknown man is. Touch: "Authur Dimmesdalr put forth his hand, chill as death, and touched the chill hand of Hestr Prynne." (Page 181, Chapter 17). This describes the affection they still share for eachother despite of their situation. Perspective: The Scarlet Letter contains two main perspectives throughout the novel. The narrator in the story is omniscient and seems to present more knowledge about the characters than the characters are aware. Character deconstruction for protagonist: The main character in the Scarlet Letter is Hester, she is dynamic in every sense of the word. Being faced with the challenges she is presented with makes her multidimensional. Having faced exclusion and warm welcomes from those around her, she is faced to view things in different points of view. Throughout the story Hester grows and learns how to handle not only herself better, but the dilemma she has gotten herself into with the bastard child, Pearl. _______________________________________________________________ DATE: OCTOBER 1st, 2009.
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