My name is Hester Prynne. People look at me and judge me because of what i did, the sin that i committed. They will never know how the bad that i did is engraved in my heart and how i look to God to forgive me everyday. So, I stand here today on this stage to publicize my sin to the greater public of New England. I will stand here and pretend it does not bother me; that it does not hurt to be judged my millions of people. I am trying to tell myself they do not know my story, they do not know how my precious daughter Pearl was born. I am trying; but I know i can not hold it together much longer. Being up on this stage makes me think, if I am really a worthy mother for my child or if I should die just like what everyone else thinks. But i will hold it together for now. I will not allow these people to judge me and critisize me. They have no right to know my story; they have know right to know anything. This sin I have commited is between myself and God and nobody else must know. They should not worry that I will ever forget my sin because for the constant scrutiny of these people and the scarlet red symbol engraved on my bosom; all shall be remembered.
My name is Reverend Dimmesdale. I am in charge of finding out who it was that is the the father of Hester's daughter, Pearl. I am a bit sickly, and this stops me from being fully committed to this case. I do not know what this feeling is, but it makes me feel sick all the time. The doctor is trying to help me as well as try and be a therapist towards Hester to hopefully, get some answers out of her. I want to defend Hester, yet the public would not look upon that very well. So, myself, the therapist towards Hester, and my other fellow men will look at Hester's case and see if her punishment is severe enough. I have a feeling Hester will not budge, her mind is made up so that she will not tell anyone who the father was. i do not know if this bothers me or not, as i know Hester has always been a very religious and saintly woman. However, i must do what i right and I must also take her very strange daughter into consideration, Pearl.
My name is Pearl. i am my mother's daughter, no matter what they all say. My mother thinks i do not understand what is going on, but I do. I am able to understand that these people want to take me away, that they want my mother and myself gone from this world. They think I am a devil child, that I am not normal, but I am nothing like that. The sin my mother has committed has not made me bad in any way. Yes, i know i do things to upset the reverend and my mother, but I am just having fun. I am not ashamed of who I am, or who my mother is. I only wish that she would be able to live and enjoy the world like i do. She should not hide out and stay away from people. She should walk around with me and not be embarrased of the big letter "A" on her chest. She should share it with the world. She should no longer be sad as she has repented for her sin many times and I think she has been forgiven. I only wished that the scary men would stop questioning myself and my mother and let us live in peace.
Character Analysis - Nailah
ReplyDeleteMy name is Hester Prynne. People look at me and judge me because of what i did, the sin that i committed. They will never know how the bad that i did is engraved in my heart and how i look to God to forgive me everyday. So, I stand here today on this stage to publicize my sin to the greater public of New England. I will stand here and pretend it does not bother me; that it does not hurt to be judged my millions of people. I am trying to tell myself they do not know my story, they do not know how my precious daughter Pearl was born. I am trying; but I know i can not hold it together much longer. Being up on this stage makes me think, if I am really a worthy mother for my child or if I should die just like what everyone else thinks. But i will hold it together for now. I will not allow these people to judge me and critisize me. They have no right to know my story; they have know right to know anything. This sin I have commited is between myself and God and nobody else must know. They should not worry that I will ever forget my sin because for the constant scrutiny of these people and the scarlet red symbol engraved on my bosom; all shall be remembered.
Character Analysis - Bavika Atputhajeyam
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Here is an excerpt of the interview that I had with characters from Scarlet Letter. I interviewed three people and there are as follows: Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth.
Q. 1) Tell me some basic information about yourself.
A. HP: My background is I’m from England, and I moved to Boston, United States with my daughter named Pearl. She is currently seven years old. She doesn’t know that I’m having this interview. I sew clothes for some of the people in the villagers. One last thing, I’d like to say is that I’m a sinner, who committed adultery.
AD: I also live in Boston. I’m the Reverend, also known as the minister of the church, in our town. I’m also Hester’s pastor, and also I’m her lover. Yes, I’m the one who raped her. Pearl is also my daughter, but Pearl does not know that I’m her father.
RC: I recently moved to Boston. I came to this town, because of my physician skills. I’m Arthur Dimmesdale’s doctor, and also Hester Prynne’s husband. The town’s people think I’m an efficient, good doctor. No one in town knows that I’m Hester’s husband.
Q. 2) What do you most believe in?
A. HP: I believe in God. I know it sounds surprising, because I’m a sinner. But through all this,what’s getting me through is my faith for God. Even though I have committed this sin, God will forgive me of all I did. I also believe that my daughter Pearl will not follow in my steps, and she will differentiate between what is right and what is wrong. My daughter will be nothing like me.
AD: I believe in God, but God will not forgive me for what I have done. As a minister, I should be able to overcome Satan’s luring, but even then I couldn’t do so. I feel ashamed about this, but my most wrong doing is, even after I did the sin. I acted around the other town people as if I was pure, and faithful to God, but in reality, I was unclean and unfaithful to God.
RC: I believe that Arthur Dimmesdale should die. It is shocking, isn’t it? But I will tell you, he lured my darling, Hester, into his plot and look what he did. He made my wife, a sinner. I blame him, only him for this pure madness. I don’t care if he says Satan lured him, if he’s a priest then he should be able to not stray from God’s path.
Character Analysis - Bavika Atputhajeyam
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Q. 3) What do you like do in your free time? What exactly are your interests?
A. HP: In my free time, I like to tell stories to my daughter Pearl. Pearl likes to ask a lot of questions. She is very curious for a seven year old. I like to sew clothes for my daughter. I try to make the colours on her clothes colourful and brighter so that it seems that she’s a bright, lively spirit. My daughter and I also like to walk in the woods and admire the nature.
AD: I love nature; just sitting beside the river side gives me a sense of calmness. At times like these, this is what I need. But of course, Doctor Chillingworth accompanies me to the woods. I like to read but mostly I like the sense of quietness, no noise, just plain silence.
RC: As a doctor, in my free time, I make medicines. If I don’t have a certain ingredient, then I will usually go to the woods, to get a certain herb or flower. As Arthur said, sometimes I take him along with me, so that he can get some fresh air. But if I had any extra free time, then I would be planning to kill Hester’s lover.
Q. 4) What are some values you believe in as a person?
A. HP: Some values that I believe as a person is that be true to yourself. Once you are true to yourself then you will know how to be true to others. Another value is not caring what other people think about you. Let them think what they want to think; only you know what is right and wrong. My last value is having faith in yourself and most importantly, God. God will set you on the right path. Trust in God, and all will be better.
AD: Some values that I believe is like Hester said trust in God. Your faith in God will take you to high places and will place you in a valuable spot. Another value is forgiving and forgets, because if you forgive other people for what they did, God will reward you in life. My last value is telling the truth. No matter what happens, you as a person should tell the truth. This will take you too many places.
RC: Some values that I believe is that whoever does the wrong thing should be punished. This way others will know what the consequence is for doing something that is wrong. Another value is everyone should tell the truth. If everyone tells the truth then, the world will become a better place and there will be no sins. A last value is being pure, in the name of God. By being pure, you are helping the world out, and you are not getting the world contaminated by the sins that are in the world today.
I’d like to thank everyone for answering some of our questions in this part of the interview. I wish all of you the best in your future, and goals. It has been a pleasure to have you guys here today. Once again, Thank You.
Character Analysis- By: Iqra Qureshi
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I feel horrible and sick, I feel depressed and anxious. I know what I did was bad and that God will never forgive me for what I did, but I couldn’t stop. I know that it happened a long time ago, but I feel that any day that someone will find out what sin I have committed many years ago. “..In the hot passion of his heart” (Hawthorne pg 162) I want to tell people, but will people think? They will shun me out like they did with Hester, what if they put a bigger red A on my chest? (It hurts in my chest, right where Hester’s red A is. I know that I seem like a big coward, but it seems the more I hide the guilt inside of myself the more I get sick, and the more I hallucinate upon different things. When people talk about Hester and her child, my child, I know they know it was me but how could they? Did Hester tell? No, no that’s not true I am imagining things. “It is done! The whole town will awake, and hurry forth, and find me” (Hawthorne pg 76) All I see is red all around me? Is it blood, or Hester’s scarlet letter? I have to tell someone, but the society? New England, will shun me forever I shall be a outcast to everyone around me. I am a minister, I shouldn’t have done this, I am supposed to be a pious man close to God. I…I don’t think I regret what has happened, but the guilt, the guilt is killing me. Dear God, help me. Dear diary..i don’t know what is to come, maybe this was a test from God. Oh dear God help me.
Sincerely arthur
Pearl
Dear Diary,
My mommy told me that to write in a diary it helps, express myself well. Well that is what I am going to do, well today mean kids tried throwing rocks on me and mommy, I shooed them away, and nothing will touch my mommy. But I don’t understand why everyone stares at my mommy? Maybe it has something to do with my mommy’s bright shiny letter A which someone has stuck on her chest. It’s really pretty and shiny, sometimes I like touching it with my hand, its smooth but I still wonder why mommy wears it? I ask her occasionally, but the answers I get vary sometimes mommy says that the black man gave it to her or sometimes that she wears it just to show off. I don’t think I believe her I think she’s lying, and mommy always tell me not to lie, always to tell the truth and follow the heavenly father who created me, but I wonder why she is lying, I want to find out but no one tells me anything, all they think about me is that I am an annoying kid, who doesn’t listen to God and doesn’t know anything about God, but that isn’t true I know about God. He’s the heavenly father and he made me and mommy always prays to him, and tells me to do that same, see I know a lot about the heavenly father. Although I don’t think the Governor thinks so they want me to go away from mommy so somewhere he told my mommy “My poor women, the child shall be well cared for!-far better than thou canst do it” (Hawthorne, pg 133). I don’t want to leave mommy, I think that the heavenly father was watching me and taking care of me, because they let me stay with mommy in the end. I hope I never see that Governor again he called bad names “This is awful, here is a child of three years old, and she cannot tell who made her! Without question, she is equally in the dark as to her soul…” (Hawthorne, pg 132) I think he is a mean old, man that makes fun of everyone, he doesn’t like mommy very much. But I like Mr. minister he helped me stay with mommy “She recognizes, believe me, the solemn miracle which God hath wrought, in the existence of the child. And may she feel, too…therefore it is good for this poor, sinful woman that she hath and infant confided to her care.” (Hawthorne, pg 135) I really like him, maybe I should ask him about Mommy’s shining letter, maybe he can tell me. Well diary mommy is calling me I got to go now and take a bath see you soon.
Love Pearl
Hester
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Life turned for the worst, today they tried to take my dear pearl away from me, she is a smart and intelligent angel, who God made for me as a reminder of the sin I have already done. I know I can not take back what I have done, I regret it sincerely, but God has given me an angel from above. Thank God the minister was there to save pearl from going into the hands of the rotten governor. They shouldn’t care about my child, she’s mine and I value her above everything. She helps me stay away from more sin, because today the witch lady asked me to stay for a witch council, I was tempted but because of my dear, sweet pearl I said no. “Wilt though go tonight with us? There will be merry company in the forest…” (Hawthorn, pg 137) They cannot take pearl from; if they do I cannot think of what I shall do if she is gone. She is the sunlight on dark days, the sparkling diamond on raining days, oh sweet pearl so innocent so sweet yet so strong and up hold. I hope she turns out to be just like her father, just as strong and as sweet as he is. One day I hope he acknowledges her, it pains me to see her asking about her father but the only thing I can replay is that her father is the heavenly father who has created all. Pearl is growing up to be a fine child indeed, but I am afraid she is a bit to nosy, she consistently asks what the red letter on my boson means, and all I can replay is lies, she is young and has to be protected from the truth, she cannot know what her mother has done years ago, what will she think of me? I am afraid she will run away from me if she finds out. I shall have to think of more tall tales to tell her to keep her young, adventuring mind somewhere else.
Love Hester
This is Fatima
ReplyDeleteMy name is Mr. Arthur Dimmesdale. I am a priest in the town of New England. Everyone likes my sermon that I have said at church so everyone has gathered at New- Market for the ceremony of Election Day because I will be giving a speech. Everyone is very excited to hear this speech. I am very excited too, because I will be seeing Hester Prynne and my Little Pearl there too. I am a very guilty, shy, and honest person because for seven years I have been keeping the biggest secret, and the biggest sin that I have done. Since I am a priest I am suppose to be a person who follows the orders of God but I have broken the most important order. The sin that I have made can make me go to jail. Due to my illness I only have a few days to live in order for my soul to rest in peace I have to confess my sin. While all the priests were going back I called out to Hester and Pearl, Pearl came running to me and Hester came behind her. I stood in front of everyone and said “I stand upon the spot where, seven years since I should have stood; here, with this woman father o, whose arm…” (Hawthorne. 305). I was very shameful about the sin I had done and I had to confess that I was the lover of Hester Prynne. Just like Hester has the letter “A” as the sign of the sin I also had a sign but that sign was always hidden from people because I did not want anyone to know that I am the f Pearl. But on that particular day I wanted everyone to know the whole truth so after I die because I did not want anyone to have any questions for Hester. I had to reveal the whole truth so I decided to show the red mark on my chest just as Hester had one, to prove that I was the sinner of Hester. “It is the shadow of what he bears on his own breast, and that even this, his red stigma …” (Hawthorne. 305). As I finished saying my last few sentences I was looking at Pearl and I had a sweet gentle smile on my face, ever since I had found out that Pearl was my daughter I did not get a chance to get a sweet kiss from my daughter so I asked “dear Little Pearl, wilt thou kiss me now?” (Hawthorne. 306). Pearl gave me my last kiss on my lips and I died peacefully.
Fatima
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw that Dimmesdale was dying I asked Dimmesdale this question not as a lover but as a priest: “Shall we not spend our immortal life together” (Hawthorne. 307). My name is Hester Prynne and I have just lost my lover and the father of Pearl. It has been many years since Dimmesdale’s death, but I have been okay. During the years my husband Roger Chillingworth has also died, but I have never lost strength I have always taught myself that if I need to live then it is only for Pearl. Everybody in the community is treating me very kindly because although the government says I do not need to wear the scarlet letter I decided to wear it because everyone knows my existence by the scarlet letter. After many years the letter had lost its stigma, and became into a letter that represented into “Able” or any other word that represented me as a helpful person. After Pearl had gone out of town I stayed in a cottage and continued my charity work, continued making clothes, and designing clothes not for my daughter but for charity. I thought to myself that I always made Pearl wear good clothes and everyone needs clothes so that is when I decided to make clothes and donate them to charity. When it was time for me to die I was buried in the King’s Chapel graveyard, and on the gravestone have the letter “A” to symbolize the sin that was committed. I do not lie right next to Dimmesdale but both of us share the same symbol.
Fatima
ReplyDeleteMy name is Pearl, I am the daughter of Hester Prynne and Mr. Arthur Dimmesdale you may know him as a priest. My mother is known as the person with the scarlet letter. Ever since I was little I have always been beside my mother as a body guard, I have made sure that nothing happened to her and she was kept safe. I also did not make any friends because mommy did not have any friends I wanted to be just like my mommy. But, now I have left my mother in New England and I am living a happy married life in Europe. I have not forgotten my mother I send letters to her once in a while. I am not living a life of shame because of my mother but I am living a very happy life with my husband and my kids. “Pearl, was not only alive, but married, and happy, and mindful, of her mother …” (Hawthorne. 314). My mother is very happy of me because I am not leading the same life as my mother had lived in shame and in guilt. “At old Roger Chillingworth’s decease and by his last will and testament… a very considerable amount of property, both here and in England, to little Pearl” (Hawthorne. 312). After Uncle Roger Chillingworth died I was given all his inheritance and “I became the richest heiress of my day” (Hawthorne. 313). In the end I am very happy to where I am in my life because without my mother’s help I might not have been here.
sorry, i just realised that the other half of my entry did not publish when i submitted it. So, i editted it, and included the other half as well as kept my last entry to show that i handed it in on time.
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