Hawthorne uses character development to show how a person can change. ... In Chapter 8, we see him through Hester's eyes, as a man who "Looked now more careworn and emanciated than as we described him at the scene of Hester's public ignominy: and wether it were his failing health, or whatever the cause might be, his large dark eyes had a world of pain in their troubled and melancholy depth" (124). ... Your clutch is on his life, and you cause him to die daily a living death", (190). ... In Chapter 17 she talks to Dimmesdale and confesses Chill...

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Chapter Two, The Market-Place (2.) Chapter Thirteen, Another View of Hester (3.) Chapter Seventeen, The Pastor and His Parishioner. ... Then we see in the seventeenth chapter, The Pastor and His Parishioner, the novel beginning to come to an end. ... Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale talk about how they are feeling about the situation, in which Reverend Dimmesdale tells Hester Prynne how lucky she is to have been able to come clean on her act of sin, for he can not confess. "' More misery, Hester! ...

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Chapter One: The Prison Door Summary A large crowd of Puritans stands outside of the prison, waiting for the door to open. ... Several of the women are outraged when they see how she has chosen to display the letter, and want to rip it off. ... Chapter Three: The Recognition Summary On the edge of the crowd Hester notices an Indian accompanied by a white man. ... The man informs him of her past, telling how she was sent to Boston to await her husband, and how she ended up with a child instead. ... Chapter Six: Pearl Summary Hawthorne discusses the choice of the name Pearl. ...

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In a parade, Dimmesdale confesses to sins and right after the confession, he died peacefully. ... Later when he confesses, he was released from the painful and died peacefully. ... "We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest." The passage explains how it is different between the city and nature. ... This passage appears in the final chapter. ...

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The following question gave birth to our research: How does Nathaniel Hawthorne's use of symbols reflect romanticism and his life? Our research paper is composed of two chapters. In the first chapter, we have adopted a textual approach, by analyzing symbols in the text, and a contextual approach, by relating these symbols to the Romantic movement. ... In the second chapter, we have selected an author-oriented approach, referring to the author's biography. ... On the other hand, the second chapter deals with symbols in relation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's life. ...

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The book opens with a chapter called "The Custom House," in which the narrator of the book writes a long description recalling his days as the chief executive officer of the Customs House in Salem, Massachusetts. ... In the third chapter, a small, deformed man accompanied by an Indian is identified in the crowd. ... The temptation is an example of how his guilt is affecting his sanity. ...

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• Grade Level: High School