The forest is like a dark and mysterious place where a dark creature, the "Black Man," lives. ... He gets reed of the pain by telling everyone about how he sinned with Hester, which takes away the burden on his heart. ... One major theme of The Scarlet Letter is that a dark hidden secret, unless the secret is told to others, causes pain and suffering to the beholder. ... Throughout the story Dimmesdale is haunted by his dark secret, even in his every breath. ... I learned that I shouldn't let my secrets eat me form the inside, I should share them and ask others to help me to concur them....

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• Grade Level: High School

While Dimmesdale awaited her appeal, he placed his hand over his heart "a habit the reader will recognize further through the novel. ... Unlike Hester, however, he has no audience, and even if someone were to see him, they would not recognize him in the darkness. ... It also unites the three characters, as they share a common secret. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel begins to seek into the heart and conscience of Arthur Dimmesdale when Roger Chillingworth questions him about his thoughts on sinners and their secrets. Feeling full well the distress of his own secret, Arthur proclaims that those who hold such "miserable secrets will yield them up that last day with a joy unutterable." (Hawthorne118) By this expression, Arthur offers a glimpse into his tortured heart and shows how heavy a burden his secret is. ... Not only is the health of Arthur's body in question, but the condition of his heart and soul is questionable. ... Pearl also serve...

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• Grade Level: High School

The only light in the dark atmosphere is a rosebush growing by the prison door. ... Meanwhile, venerable Reverend Dimmesdale's body starts to waste away from a mysterious heart condition. ... He does this, however, in the pitch-black darkness of the night, so the situation is not exactly the same. ... They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendour, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another."   ... Dimmesdale clutches his heart instinctively and admits to Hester that he hates Chillingworth. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even though Chillingworth is the most reasonable sinner, he has stolen Hester Prynne youth, another sin Chillingworth did was tricking the heart of a fellow mate and sacrificing a friendship to satisfy his own selfishness, and he also has lied to a society of Puritans which is a huge sin because in the Puritans' eyes committing a terrible sin is failing to admit to it. Roger Chillingworth is twisted and in the puritans society he was consider a dark soul. ... " ― Nathaniel Hawthorne Roger Chillingworth has committed many sins that he hasn't shared with the public, he keeps...

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Although Hester and Chillingworth did not share love, they were happy together. " he used to emerge at eventide from the seclusion of his study and sit down in the firelight of their home, and in the light of her nuptial smile." ... "Hester Pryne was startled to perceive what a change has come over his features--how his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier, and his figure more misshapen- (108) He had established himself as a doctor in Boston. ... "This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself, for seven years, to the constant analysis of a heart full of tor...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although Hester and Chillingworth did not share love, they were happy together. " he used to emerge at eventide from the seclusion of his study and sit down in the firelight of their home, and in the light of her nuptial smile." ... "Hester Pryne was startled to perceive what a change has come over his features--how his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier, and his figure more misshapen- (108) He had established himself as a doctor in Boston. ... "This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself, for seven years, to the constant analysis of a heart full of tor...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hawthorne describes the forest as secret and somber, a temptation to the subconscious mind of Hester Prynne. ... Just like the forest, the subconscious mind is dark, secretive, and extremely private. ... Since the Puritan woman share the same desires as Hester does subconsciously, they too would probably give in to their id if they were under the same circumstances as Hester. ... Mine burns in secret!... I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hawthorne describes the forest as secret and somber, a temptation to the subconscious mind of Hester Prynne. ... Just like the forest, the subconscious mind is dark, secretive, and extremely private. ... Since the Puritan woman share the same desires as Hester does subconsciously, they too would probably give in to their id if they were under the same circumstances as Hester. ... Mine burns in secret!... I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School