The importance of a scaffold is not very important in everyone’s daily life, but for the members of The Scarlet Letter it is. The Scarlet Letter is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In The Scarlet Letter the scaffold has an importance in Hester and Dimmesdale’s life. The scaffold plays an important part by Hester Prynne standing on the scaffold to receive her punishment, Dimmesdale stands on the scaffold in the middle of the night where he thinks he is confessing but is by himself, and then Dimmesdale stands on the scaffold where he confesses and takes his final breath.
The first importance of the scaffold is Hester Prynne standing on the scaffold to receive her punishment for having a child without a father around. Hester stood in front of a crowd to receive her punishment and when she got her punishment the goodwives did not think fondly of her. “When the young woman-the mother of this child- stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress” (Hawthorne 60). When Hester received her punishment she was very self conscience about her scarlet letter. She felt that she had to
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The scaffold plays an important part by Hester Prynne standing on the scaffold to receive her punishment, Dimmesdale stands on the scaffold in the middle of the night where he thinks he is confessing but is by himself, and then Dimmesdale stands on the scaffold where he confesses and takes his final breath. The scaffold has an importance in everyone’s life, but for Hester and Dimmesdale it plays an important role. The scaffold is where Dimmesdale takes his final breath and that is where Hester sees her lover die right next to her. For Hester and Dimmesdale the scaffold is their whole