Hester’s decision to be with Dimmesdale energizes the atmosphere and excites me. I can connect with Dimmesdale when he says “Do I feel joy again?” “Methought the germ of it was dead in me!”Because it’s like that moment when you feel happy after a really long time. The best part in this whole chapter is the moment when Hester takes off the Scarlet letter from her breast and flings it in the forest.”O exquisite relief” is her remark something similar to mine. After the removal Hester’s beauty floods out. Hawthorne words create vivid imagery in my mind. The heavenly light brightens up the forest and there is Hester in the center of it. I am so glad it’s gone but it also excites me as to what the reaction of the townspeople will be. How is she going to answer the questions she’s going to be bombarded with? What irks me is that Dimmesdale isn’t that optimistic and instead of him encouraging Hester. It’s the complete opposite. Its like the roles have been switched.id say Hester’s removal of the scarlet letter is the second climax in the novel the first being the revelation of Chillingworth’s true motives.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world. Had the forest still kept its gloom, it would have been bright in Hester's eyes, and bright in Arthur Dimmesdale's!
The sun shines upon Hester and her lover which implies that there is something good in store for them. I think another reason apart from the scarlet letter hat the sun didn’t shine upon her was because she lacked Love in her life. And this passage well supports that. She has her love and so she has her sunshine. I like how Hawthorne has connected sunshine and Hester so purely.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world. Had the forest still kept its gloom, it would have been bright in Hester's eyes, and bright in Arthur Dimmesdale's!
The sun shines upon Hester and her lover which implies that there is something good in store for them. I think another reason apart from the scarlet letter hat the sun didn’t shine upon her was because she lacked Love in her life. And this passage well supports that. She has her love and so she has her sunshine. I like how Hawthorne has connected sunshine and Hester so purely.
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