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but is once again feeble and tottering. There is also a strange expression upon his face. As he nears the scaffold,Dimmesdale leaves the procession and seeks Hester’s help in climbing up the steps with Pearl. Chillingworth realizes the only place Dimmesdale is truly free from him is on the scaffold. Dimmesdale, however, refuses to be victimized by Cillingworth any longer. He is determined to make a public confession of his sin before he dies. Dimmesdale climbs the scaffold with Hester and Pearl. Standing in full public gaze, he addresses the people and confesses his guilt. He declares that, like Hester, he too wears the mark of sin. Before collapsing, Dimmesdale bears his chest for all to see. He then forgives Chillingworth and asks Pearl to kiss him. For the first time, Pearl

truly reveals her love for Dimmesdale. As her tears fall for the first time in the novel. Her questions have been answered, her humanity has been established, and she will no longer be the impish child she has been throughout the book.Dimmesdale bids a final farewell to Hester, for he doubts he can be united with her for eternity because of his sinful nature. The minister then dies, leaving the people with a sense of awe. Chapter 24: Conclusion:When Dimmesdale’s showed his breast people all saw diffrent things. Some believed that there was really a scarlet letter there, a mark of his sinfulness. Some said the devil put it there; others believed that Dimmesdale had carved it there himself as self-inflicted punishment; others felt that Chillingworth had caused it. Others,

especially those representative of the Church and the State, believed that there was no such sign on his heart and that he had no personal sin; they interpreted Dimmesdale’s ascending the scaffold with Hester and Pearl as a symbolic lesson in the sinfulness of all men. Hester and Pearl remain in Boston until Chillingworth’s death, which occurred within a year. Driven by his revenge, after Dimmesdale’s death, he no longer had a reason for existing. Pearl inherits a large sum of money and property from him, his only noble act in the book. Later, mother and daughter disappear, and the people often hear rumors about where they really are. Hawthorne indicates that have gone to Europe. Then one day Hester returns to her old cottage without Pearl. Once again, different stories are

circulated. It is assumed that Pearl has married well, has a child of her own, and is constantly in touch with her mother. She, therefore, becomes the only bright spot in a gloomy novel. Hester returns to Boston to end her days in the place of her love, sin, suffering. No one expects her to wear the scarlet letter, but she places it on her chest and constantly wears it. When she dies, she is placed near Dimmesdale’s grave with one tombstone marking both their graves. It is marked with a scarlet letter “A”. That also says ?On a field, sable, the letter A, gules.? I am a 15 yr. old girl from PA