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Hester Prynne walks out onto the scaffold for her punishment of adultery. She will stand there for 3 hours a day where the community will look and judge her as she stands there. -
Chillingworth is a physician that comes into town seeking revenge on the person that committed fornicatin with Hester. -
Pearl is Hester's daughter that was made from the affair. Hester will not reveal who the father of Pearl is but pushes forward in her life so she can raise Pearl right. -
His health deteriorated because of the large amount of guilt that he carries with him of keeping his sin a secret from the entire town, while he is also a respected minister in the town. -
They meet in the forest because it is a place where neither of them will be judged. Then Hester tells Dimmesdale that he should run away and start a new life somewhere across the ocean. Both of them share their emotions and how they feel wanting to help each other. -
While they are in the woods Hester tells Dimmesdale who Roger Chillingworth really is and that is her husband. She also tell Dimmesdale how he has been torturing him and not helping him at all. -
He heads to the scaffold where the people are punished for what they have done so he can reveal his sin that he was the person that committed fornication with Hester and that he is Pearl's father. -
Hester Stays in the community as Pearl leaves to go to Europe where she will inherit a fortune from her dad. She will also embark on a new chapter of her life while her mother stays and shows strength and resilience by staying in the same community that once shunned her.