Why are there so few physicians in the colony scarlet letter?
Hester as an embodiment of warmth and cheerfulness of home. Why are there so few physicians in the colonies? They seldom had the religious zeal to come across the sea. This is where Hester’s Scarlet Letter also is.
Why is Hester better prepared to make the decision to go away than Dimmesdale is?
Hester is better prepared than Dimmesdale to make the decision to go away because she is used to a life of isolation, and her outlook on “human institutions” is from a secluded point of view. When Pearl demands that Hester put the scarlet letter on her dress again, she does not pick it up and take it to her mother.
When Governor Bellingham demands to know what Hester can teach Pearl concerning the truths of heaven and earth What does Hester reply?
When Governor Bellingham demands to know what Hester can teach Pearl concerning the “truths of heaven and earth”, what does Hester reply? She says she can teach Pearl all the things that the scarlet letter has taught her. She believes it will make her daughter wiser and better although it hasn’t done so yet.
What keeps Dimmesdale alive?
Dimmesdale’s sin was the only thing that was keeping his ill, sickened, and tired body alive. Hester is resembling his guilt, she is holding him up, she is the living proof of his sin that is keeping him alive. When she is saving him ‘from grovelling upon his face,’ she is stopping him from death.
What did Pearl request that Dimmesdale refused to do so?
When Dimmesdale refuses Pearl’s request that he stand with her on the scaffold in broad daylight, she refuses to share what she knows about Chillingworth. Pearl thus makes a statement about the causal connection between Dimmesdale’s denial of his own guilt and his incomplete understanding of the world around him.
Does Hester still love Dimmesdale?
During the past seven years Dimmesdale has been continually tormented by the dichotomy between what he is and what people believe him to be. Hester realizes that she still loves Dimmesdale, and she courageously tells him this, even as she reveals her silence concerning Chillingworth.