Taken from the Bible, the word of Pearl represents the highest price that Hester has paid for the deadly sin her committed. Pearl would make Hester’s life tolerable.
11. How is Pearl first described?
Pearl looks like an imp in the first impression. She acts weird and isolates herself to the society like her mother. She has got the most perfect features there are for humans. She looks even prettier than her mother.
12. How is Pearl treated by the children of Boston?
Whether imitating their parents’ insults toward Hester or just instinctively emphasis on the difference between them and Pearl, the children of Boston taunts Pearl relentlessly
13. How does Pearl amuse herself?
Pearl played on her own with nature and with her mother as well
14. What does Pearl first notice as a baby?
Pearl sees the scarlet letter carried around her mother’s bosom and found it very interesting
15. Why does Hester visit Governor Bellingham's mansion?
Hester visits Governor’s mansion to deliver a pair of ornate gloves and find out the truth of the rumor that her child is going to be taken away from her
16. What reason does Hester give for her need to keep Pearl?
Pearl exists as a mark of sin that prevent her from sinning further. That is how Hester prove herself to be capable of keeping Pearl
17. Who supports Hester in her pleas to keep Pearl and by what argument?
It was Dimmendale who save her and he said that God gave Hester the child, Pearl is her happiness also her punishment.
18. How does Pearl behave toward Dimmesdale in the Governor's garden?
Pearl keeps Dimmesdale’s hand and shakes his hands
19. How does Roger Chillingworth come to be Dimmesdale's personal physician?
Due to the numerous works for the community, Dimmesdale has problems with his health Roger later has chance to diagnose and curse for his health. At the same time, Chillingowrth, at that time is the only physician in town. Dimmesdale’s refusals to marry any woman that devote their life to him make it even easier for Chillingworth to live near him.
20. How has Roger Chillingworth changed since Hester first knew him?
Chillingworth intends to find the truth, the father of Pearl.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. What does Chillingworth suggest is the cause of Dimmesdale's suffering?
The scarlet token that has the shape of an A letter
22. How does Pearl's behavior in the cemetery express a link between Dimmesdale and Hester?
Pearl acts as if Dimmesdale has got some .connection between her and him without any kind of clues or evidences to prove it
23. How does Chillingworth finally discover the cause of Dimmesdale's suffering?
Chillingworth managed to sneak into Dimmesdale’s room when Dimmesdale is deep asleep. He pushes a side Dimmesdale and sees the scarlet token on Dimmesdale ‘s breast.
24. What reason is given for Dimmesdale's ability to touch the souls of others?
Dimmesdale whips himself every night, seeing the agony that is inside of every man’s heart. Not just that but the scarlet token also causes him pain, suffering which make it easier for him to “touch the soul of others”.
25. What effect does public veneration have upon the Reverend Dimmesdale?
Dimmesdale can’t express his suffering due to the fact that he is their reverence.
26. How does Dimmesdale seek penitence?
Dimmesdale went to the scaffold and stood there. In the midnight the same thing as Hester did but in the morning
27. Describe Dimmesdale first vigil on the scaffold.
Dimmesdale lets out a loud shot, overcome by fear, terror and loneliness. Soon his fear of being discovered came to place but it was mistaken as a witch’s shout. Afterwards, the arrival of Wilson, Pearl, and Hester put Dimmesdale loneliness to an end
28. What meanings are given to the apparition in the sky?
The meaning of it was that a passing of a person, marking the A letter for “Angel”
29. What effect does the midnight vigil have on Hester?
Hester was totally shocked at what Dimmesdale has become. He is on the verges of collapse. She decides to help Dimmesdale to get out of his own mental suffering.
30. What has Hester's a come to mean too many of the townspeople?
It has come to the word of Able
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
31. Describe the changes in Hester's appearance and temperament wrought by the scarlet token.
Hester became more active in life: food for the poor, nurses the sick. And help people in need. At the same time, her character and her appearance change as well. She became “a harsh and bare outline” of herself. She was no longer a tender and passionate woman due to the presence of the scarlet letter leading to her being shunned and rejected
32. In what way has the A freed Hester?
It enabled her to walk securely amid all peril and it kept her safe from thieves.
33. How does Hester come to view womanhood?
Hester saw woman as a weaker sex who was mostly taken advantage of. Woman is not to love those of her liking. When a new world is formed, if a woman would like to take advantage of it, she would have to”evaporise her truest life”
34. Why does Chillingworth refuse to leave Dimmesdale alone? Chillingworth told Hester that Dimmesdale “just has increased his debt”
35. What does Hester discover after her interview with Chillingworth?
Hester found Pearl coming out to her wearing an A circlet and scarf on her head made of “seaweeds of various kinds”
36. How does Hester respond when Pearl makes an A for herself of eel-grass?
Hester asked whether Pearl does know the reason why she has to wear the Scarlet letter
37. Asked what the A truly means, what does Hester say?
Hester told her Pearl that children is not supposed to know everything
38. How does Pearl explain the sun's refusal to shine on Hester?
Pearl said that the sun is afraid of the scarlet letter preventing her from catches it
39. What answer does Hester give Pearl when she asks if Hester has met the Black Man?
At first Hester hesitated to give her the answer, in the end, Hester decide to tell “her only occasion of meeting with the Black Man to Pearl”
40. How does Dimmesdale react when Hester reveals Chilling worth’s true identity?
Dimmesdale gave Hester “a fiercest frowns as he could”, shouting and blaming Hester for causing his suffering
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. What does Hester suggest they do?
Hester told Dimmesdale to run away with her on a ship heading to Europe
42. What does Hester do to signal the beginning of a new life?
Hester threw away her scarlet letter
43. How does Pearl act when she sees her mother without the A?
Pearl at first does not want to acclaim her own mother not wearing the scarlet letter as her true mother. Not until when Hester said that she will be very angry and would come over to her side and punish her and furthermore, she decided to put on her scarlet letter back
44. How is Dimmesdale affected by his interview with Hester?
Dimmesdale is deliriously joyful and happy. His mind was filled with happy thoughts although there exists some wariness in his mind of Hester and Pearl. The happiness provides him a powerful flow of energy that he has never experience before.
45. How does Dimmesdale treat Chillingworth when the two meet?
Dimmesdale acts toward Chillingworth as a no-longer-of-use friend and start refusing the medication offered by Chillingworth
46. What does Chillingworth do when he sees Dimmesdale's transformation?
Chillingworth worries about his own identity and wants to find out more about both Dimmesdale and Hester. He managed to get his hand on the fact that Hester is leaving after she gets on a ship that she has so familiarized with
47. How does Dimmesdale finally escape Chillingworth?
Dimmesdale confessed in front of the crowd on the Election Day on the scaffold and then put himself into death after that.
48. What becomes of Chillingworth after Dimmesdale’s death?
With nothing to do for his life, he spends his last years mindlessly and died one year after the passing of Dimmesdale
49. How do the townspeople react to Dimmesdale’s confession?
Some of them were confused of their reverend clergymen. Some believed that Chillingworth was responsible for the weird reaction of Dimmesdale
50. What becomes of Hester and Pearl?
Afterwards, Pearl married a rich man and leads a free life that has always been a dream of her parents. Hester after hides her for some time returns back to Boston and spend the rest of her life doing charity work. Occasionally, Pearl visits her mother but do not stay with her.
