![]() This situation creates a whole plot of conflicts both external and internal in all of the four main characters. Not wanting his arrival acknowledge Roger replaces his maiden name for Chillingworth. In the moment, when Hester is completing the first part of her punishment, her long lost husband, Roger Prynne Chillingworth, arrives. Pearl Prynne being the product of the two sinners. The story goes Hester Prynne committed the sin of adultery with the minister of their Puritan Community, Arthur Dimmesdale, the community then condemning her to wear the scarlet letter “A” for the rest of her natural life. Until her parents have brought her out of shame, she will not set them free.The Scarlet Letter: Internal and External Conflicts In the novel, the Scarlet Letter, there are four main characters, Hester Prynne, Pearl Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Prynne Chillingworth. Pearl, as the “moral blossom,” will not have it. She is a child of two scarlet letters, but Dimmesdale has not revealed his, and her mother comes dangerously close to disposing of hers. ![]() Instead, she wants to be held out on the scaffold as his child and wants to celebrate the letter on his chest as much as she loves the one on her mother’s. Pearl is not content for her father to embrace her in the woods and return to his town as the revered minister. Indeed, she is at once the product of their lust and the punisher of it, for she demands that Dimmesdale take responsibility for it. ![]() She seems to be the intermediary, in a sense, between the town's values and Hester and Dimmesdale's passion for each other. Pearl, as Hawthorne pointed out, is the “moral blossom” at the center of the story. Dimmesdale gives her a kiss on the forehead, but Pearl runs away and washes the kiss off in the stream. Pearl again asks if the minister will always keep his hand over his heart and if he will walk into town with them. Hester then drags Pearl up to where Dimmesdale is sitting. ![]() Hester finally has to get up and cross the stream, reattach the letter, and put her hair back under her hat. Pearl starts screaming and convulsing and points to Hester's chest, where the scarlet letter had been removed. Dimmesdale is anxious that Pearl should cross the stream, and he asks Hester to make her hurry. Hester watches as Pearl walks up to the stream and stops on the other side, still standing in a ray of sunlight. ![]()
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