Blog #8

Blog #8

What did you learn from the experience?

-I learned a little about control . Like i should take control of myself rather then letting someone else control me .

How did your understanding of the lens change throughout reading? What about your understanding of the novel?

-I had various  reactions to this book but i knew i wasn't all that interested in how a pedophiles mind worked . I understood the novel pretty well . I still do not think its that great of a book.

What are some things you got from the novels that you think you wouldn’t have gotten if you hadn’t been focusing on your lens?

-I dont think I would of gotten the overall message given from Humbert .

What are some things you got from the novels that you think you might have missed as the result of focusing on your lens?

-I think i missed the sense of feminism because i didn't really catch that , but i'm interested in how other people with that lens got to interpret that .

What are the benefits of using a critical lens? What are the downsides?

-Benefits are that you have a clear understanding of a specific lens the downside you only focus on that one lens and you ignore the rest.

How did your beliefs change (if at all) about your topic as the result of this project?

-They did not change

What did you learn about yourself overall as a result of working on this project?

- I know I do not agree to what Humbert did .

Blog#7

Blog#7

I am done with the book and have watched the movie made in 1997, I really liked the movie more than the book . It was really simple and general when the book had more detail and description . But for some reason i'm more of a visual learner because I think I understand what is happening more . At the end of the book , Humbert is wrecked emotionally and physically because he now has a murder case and lost the love of his life. Humbert just is screwed up at this point . He has no where to go . He soon is incarcerated in prison following the murder of Quilty . And is never going to see Lolita again . I can't say I learned from this book . I think alot of people have controversy over this book just because its about a pedophiles life. Other then that I think the book is pretty basic and i got bored in the last few pages . I liked the way the movie was plotted , and how the characters played because it made it a little better then the book . All in all, it was a good read , but not the best .

Blog #6

Blog #6

“It now came in a relaxed flow.He was the only man she had ever been crazy about .what about Dick? Oh, Dick was a lamb , they were quite happy together,but she meant something different. And I had never counted , of course?”(Pg.272)

At this point in the book , Humbert was on the lookout for Lolita and after some time he had found her . He finds her pregnant and married with this man named Dick . Dick was a veteran and had lost part of his hearing during the war , but other then that he was a hard working man and a perfect husband to “Dolly”. Dolly was the new nickname that Dick had came up for Lolita . they seemed very happy with each other but Humbert had still not gotten over the fact that he had lost Lolita for good. He tried one last time to get her back and offered her money and a chance to return with him to a home where they can grow up with each other . Lolita declines his offer and explains that she is finally happy and that Dick treated her well . She also was carrying his kid . Humbert accepted that and still ended up giving her the money because he noticed that Lolita was poor and not in the best economical state . The money he has given her was the most of his savings . Shows how much he still had loved her because he gave up most of his life's earnings to his Lolita . Humbert now has no hope of having Lolita ever again .

Blog#5

Blog#5

“Everything was fine . There, in the lobby,she sat,deep in an overstuffed blood-red armchair,deep in a lurid movie magazine. A fellow of my age in tweeds(the genre of the place had changed overnight to a spurious country -squire atmosphere) was staring at my Lolita over his dead cigar and stale newspaper.”

This is where another pedophile is first presented into the story ,Claire Quilty .He is a successful playwright and child pornographer. He grows interest in Lolita on night and stalks her until he kidnapped her from Humbert and keeps her for himself . Quilty had the same fetish for nymphettes as you can tell from being interested in child pornography . He literally stalks Humbert and Lolita for a long period of time before he convinces her to go with him and live in a mansion . He drives Humbert crazy because Humbert can see that Lolita also has an interest in him and gets jealous because he knows that quilty is a successor;lolita knows that as well . One day out the cuts Lolita just left Humbert and he loses it and goes on an adventure to find her . The whole time he was on a roadtrip with Lolita he realizes someone was following him but thought it was the cops . He then knows the person following him was in fact Quilty . Humbert goes as far as committing murder from the jealousy and hate that Lolita caused him to feel . Humbert goes to his mansion , tortures him and ultimately shoots him dead . Just to come down to the fact that Lolita was not around . She had left somewhere else . Lolita is destructive and cruel because she leaves with nothing left behind . She leaves Humbert with hope of settling down with her . And there goes Humbert looking for her .

Blog #4

Blog #4

“Are you bothered by Romantic associations?”queried my wife--in allusion to her first surrender. “Hell no,” said I . “I just wonder where will you put your daughter when you get your guest or your maid.” “Ah,” said Mrs.Humbert, dreaming,smiling,drawing out the “Ah” simultaneously with the rise of one eyebrow and a soft exhalation of breath . “Little Lo, I'm afraid, does not enter the picture at all , at all . Little Lo goes straight from camp to a good boarding school with strict discipline and some sound religious training . And then --Beardsley College. I have it all planned out, you need not worry .” (pg. 82-83)

In this quote , Humberts wife is telling him that Lolita will be going off to camp with strict discipline and good education . Mrs. Humbert has this eery feeling that Lolita was trying to seduce Humbert, and she was right . This is why she tries to completely isolate Humbert for herself . Lolita does not really agree with going but  is forced to . Leaving Humbert with the first real sign of a sexual relationship , a long kiss before she left. This is what drove Humbert nuts when she had left because he knew that his wife was trying to separate them . Humbert feels as if the love of his life is slowly leaving him . Mrs. Humbert actually knew and accused Lolita for liking all of her boyfriends and husbands . She seen Lolita as a distraction in her relationships . But sending her away was not going to keep Humbert from getting to Lolita because Humbert would follow her to the end of the earth if he had to . Later on in the book while Lolita is off in camp , Mrs . Humbert finds Humbert's diary .Which had all of his deepest secrets in . Mrs.Humbert confronted him and called him sick and disgusting because in his little book he wrote about his obsession as well . He also writes about how much he dislikes his wife , calls her a animal as well . He really does not like her . But in all seriousness I felt like Humbert was forced to marry her as well , or else he would of been homeless out on the street . It wasn't right for mrs.Humbert to do that in the first place . All of this lead to her death . She leaves the house running out because she didn't know what to do . As she got to the street  a car runs her over .

Blog #3

Blog #3

Reader response:

My personal beliefs on what Humbert is dealing with, ideally just being a pedophile is wrong . I don't think this book has in any way shifted my opinion .But I do know that his young girlfriend died in the middle of his perfect relationship .This really affected him for the rest of his life but still is not an excuse to prey on little girls . “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my lions. My sin , my soul .”I know sounds scary right . It's like he accepts he is a pedophile and lives his life like nothings wrong . I do sometimes feel sorry for Humbert , because he has an obsession that he can't control , but it wouldn't be called an obsession if he could . Its also a very uncomfortable fetish to hide or deal  with because he is always being teased by Lolita. I grew this hate for Lolita because I felt she was the reason of Humbert's breakdown and sentimental destruction . She was really selfish in a sense that she knew Humberts weakness can make her control him . This is why I believe Humbert's character is really weak .He is very vulnerable to Lolita and he makes her the center of his life . Everything evolves around Lolita. I really think it's an exaggeration from the author for Humbert to go to this extent,But I know not everyone is made of stone . Everyone has a weakness , but people learn how to control it . This book has taught me that it is very important to control your weaknesses because if you don't , it can take over and control your life ; and you're the only person who should be able to control your own life. Personally I think I am in control of my life . I have a strong grasp on my weaknesses and  I don't have many ,but surely have some .

Blog #2

Blog #2 :

“I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash , that shiver, that impact of passionate recognition. In the course of the sun-shot moment that my glance slithered over the kneeling child (her eyes blinking over those stern dark spectacles--the little Herr Doktor who was to cure me of all my aches)while I passed her in my adult disguise(a great big handsome hunk of movie-land manhood, the vacuum of my soul managed to suck in every detail of her bright beauty , and these I checked against the features of my dead bride.” (pg.39)

In this passage of Lolita , Humbert first discovered the “nymphet” of his dreams. He states that Lolita reminds her of his old lover Annabel who had passed away by illness years ago . Ever since Humbert lost his Annabel he was strongly in need of that “young” love for it was what he desired the most . In this moment of the book Humbert is touring the house he was going to be renting in for a while because his other house had burnt down . The tour was given by Mrs.Haze , Lolita’s mother , whom he decides to marry just to stay close to Lolita. Although Humbert had no feeling whatsoever for Lolitas mom , he seemed to play his role as a husband very well . Mrs. Haze had no idea that Humbert's real intentions were . This quote is really disturbing to me ,but it was the perfect quote to explain my reactions and what I personally think of Humbert .Humbert seems to be mentally unstable , as which he recognizes in himself . He has this attraction to kids which is completely wrong in any occasion .But  the funny thing is he realizes his problem early on and knows  what he was doing was morally wrong but can't help himself in any way . He holds a strong image as a professional smart adult , but in his mind , what he thinks about sounds as weak as a kids mindset towards his obsession .

Blog Post #8- Final Reflection: Scarlet Letter

The book Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one full of shame, sin, societal pressures. Hester is shunned throughout her town as she cheated on her husband, Chillingworth, with someone else, Dimmesdale the minister, but refused to state who the father was at the trial. She is forced to wear the letter A, the symbol for Adultery. She has also given birth to a baby named Pearl from this scandal. Throughout the book, Hester goes through some big changes within her personality while dealing with the societal pressures and hate throughout the town. Dimmesdale, while not shamed in public, deals with his own guilt of not coming out as the father and having Hester face it all herself. Chillingworth finds out about the affair between them and vows to get revenge on both of them, altering him into a satan of some sort. Pearl while innocent, has a wild spirit and Hester fears its the evil from her own sins within her which adds to the change in Hester's outlook in life. In the end, after deciding to run away together, Dimmesdale confesses his sins and shame about Hester and Pearl in front of his congregation, and dies afterwards. Chillingworth wastes away from hate and dies. and after Hester returns back to town, is buried next to Dimmesdale with the letter A in their headstone. The story of Hester also becomes a legend and the symbol of A becomes invalid at this point.

While reading this book through the psychoanalytic lens, it gave me a lot more clarity as to why the characters made the choices they made. Either their actions came from outside pressures, or it came from within themselves. Reading the Scarlet Letter was hard for me as it had long complicated words and some old english in there as well. The wording and flow of the story made it hard to follow along and there were multiple instances in which I had to stop reading and google a word or have someone else explain to me what that passage was about. I did learn however, that if I wanted to understand and get into more depth on figuring out why the characters did what they did and get to know them better, that the psychoanalytic lens is the route to take. I would have definitely missed the fact that Hester’s new thoughts and approach towards life would have had anything to do with the town, as well as understand her concern for her daughter, Pearl and her wild spirit. I do not think I would ever read the Scarlet Letter again, just because of its language and on a topic I do not normally read about. This entire story would have been different if this wasn't so realistic and based on the times in which it was written. Overall, I learned that while the posts are easy to complete, turning them in on time is difficult if you haven't read to where its necessary -- so if I was going to do this again, I would have read some and blogged some, read some and blogged some, etc..

Blog Post #7- Reflecting and Responding: Scarlet Letter

I feel like the way Dimmesdale and Hester’s deaths and final endings  happened were appropriate as they each were created to bring some irony to them. After the minister confesses his sins and leaves it up to God to throw some punish his way, Dimmesdale falls dead. I think this is appropriate for him as he was a minister and the one to be able to connect with God, except however, he left all the blame and guilt on Hester herself which shows once again what a coward he was when he couldn’t even face his own sins. I find this to bring some interesting perspectives to my own beliefs as God will be sure to take every single action you have done in your life into consideration when deciding your fate, and clearly God did not appreciate the minister's actions. Hester and Pearl leave about a year later after Chillington's death, and Hester comes back to continue what she started-- giving back to the community. While Hester was away, the story of her and her scarlet letter soon became legend told in the town throughout the years. I found this to be very interesting. Once a big social event or scandal is over, people generally turn to the newest, bigger story out there as life and people more on. However the stories are still there. I was amazed to find out that after all these years, Hester was still feeling the effects of the scarlet letter, as she continued to help those in need when she came back, Whether this transformation was for better or for worse, it definitely taught me that society influences a lot on how we think and act and behave, and how those influences can stay with you for life. When Hester is laid down besides Dimmesdale, the fact that they weren't as close as to “prevent” anything even after death i found the whole thing funny as the whole point of the book was for them to confess, bare their souls, and leave, when in fact, even in death, society still deemed them unworthy of being together.

Blog Post #6- Responding and Reflecting: Scarlet Letter

Pearl is such a lively, feisty, spirited child. She knows what she wants and likes to know all the facts, she doesn't like to be tricked. When Hester calls her over to her and Dimmesdale, she knows immediately that something was up. As she analyzes the scene in front of her, she realizes that her mother is missing the scarlet letter on her chest, something Pearl has seen since birth. It takes a while for her mother to realize that that was the problem. Pearl has also seen the relationship in which Hester and Dimmesdale share, but still does not know or comprehend that Dimmesdale is in fact her father. The reason for this is because Hester believes that Pearl isn't ready to handle the truth and that they should act like nothing's the matter. I found myself in Pearls shoes. I hate being lied to and understand the struggle it is for adults to treat you like one of their own and for them to realize that you know more than you portray. I remember being young and sensing when things weren't right or when are tense between two adults. I would also realize that once they see me in the room, they would stop their conversations and act like nothing ever happened, and when I leave, they are back on it again. Its not even the fact that the adults are arguing, its the fact that they don't realize that yes, Im young and cant comprehend everything you are saying, and yes, I understand that you are frustrated. Lying to Pearl was similar in this real life scenario so I understand Pearl’s needs for that type of consistency (scarlet letter) in her life as well as the need to know the truth behind the relationship her mom and the minister have together.

Blog Post #5- Critical Lens Close Reading: Scarlet Letter

Its been seven years since Hester has had her daughter Pearl. Seven years since she was last called to shame in front of all the townspeople for her actions of adultery. In that time, Hester has become sort of a Humanitarian for the town and gives everything she can to the poor and the sick and is just an overall helpful being. The town people themselves are not just seeing her as worthless and shameful but had instead, "had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin, for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of one of her many goods since. 'Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge? they would say to strangers. 'It is our Hester,-- the town’s own Hester,-- who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted'" (147). The fact that Hester was and still continuously so kind and generous to others, even after the shame trial had happened, confused the public about the symbol’s meaning on her chest. “Such helpfulness was found in her,-- so much power to do, and power to sympathize,-- that many people refused to interpret the scarlet letter A by its original significance. They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength” (146). This was an amazing turn around response from the townspeople as before people would try to break her and her child down, but when she did something to benefit the community that had turned against her, the people are quick to talk, but give nothing response. This makes me wonder how did change from a lively free spirit who know what she wanted, but now became this woman whose bosom will never be “the pillow of Affection” (148). "With nothing now to lose, in the sight of mankind, and with no hope, and seemingly no wish, of gaining anything, it could only be a genuine regard for virtue that had brought back the poor wanderer to its paths" (pg 145). Hester has given up her dreams and happiness to transform into the the women the public prefers of her-- kind, motherly, and passive. She has been transformed with the mindset that her only option is to be someone who is "good" for the community. For her to be so consumed with the thoughts of the shame that letter held for her to let herself be molded into the type of person her society wanted shows me just how serious she took the adultery claims while also willing to lose some of herself to the cause.

Blog Post 8- Finally Done

Reflection

1) Here is a quick outline of the books

Lolita- This is about a middle aged man named Humbert Humbert. He is in love with young girls, especially a girl named Lolita. When her mom finds out she goes to the police, but is run-over when she crosses the road. Humbert takes advantage of this, and he takes Lolita with him. She gives him sexual favors in return for food, money, and fun things. Both are happy. They eventually settle down in New England and she is taken to an all girl school. She wants ot be in the school play and begs Humbert to let her. However, the night before the play, she leaves the house. Some time later, he finds her and she tells him that she wants to travel. While traveling she feels sick and is taken to the hospital. When Humbert goes to get her he finds out that her “uncle” (the play teacher), has picked her up. Humbert goes on through life without her. Two years later he gets a letter from her asking for money. When he goes and gives her the money, he asks her to come with him. However she declines, but tells him that the play teacher asked her to be in an adult film. Humbert goes to see the teacher and kills him. In the end, both Humbert and Lolita day within months.

The Scarlet Letter- This is about a woman named Hester Prynne who has a child through an affair. She doesn’t say who the father is and faces harsh criticism. In the crowd is her long lost husband, He goes in disguise as a physician named Roger Chillingworth. He warns her to not tell everyone that he is the husband, or he will find revenge on the the person she had an affair with. After 7 years the minister of the ton feels ill. Roger Chillingworth is sent to take care of him. He finds out that it was the Minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, who had the affair. with Hester. Dimmesdale is overcome with guilt and is dying. He tells the townspeople that it was he who had the affair with Hester and dies in her arms. When Hester Dies, she gets buried next to Dimmesdale.

2) Reflection

• What did you learn from the experience?
• How did your understanding of the lens change throughout reading? What about your understanding of the novel?
• What are some things you got from the novels that you think you wouldn’t have gotten if you hadn’t been focusing on your lens?
• What are some things you got from the novels that you think you might have missed as the result of focusing on your lens?
• What are the benefits of using a critical lens? What are the downsides?
• How did your beliefs change (if at all) about your topic as the result of this project?
• What did you learn about yourself overall as a result of working on this project?

1. I learned that blogging is pretty fun, and it is fun to be in groups. I thought Lolita was a little more interesting that The Scarlet Letter.
2. My reading did not really changed. It just look for why people would act in a certain way, My understanding of the novel did not change much.
3. I understood why the people acted the way they did, If I read the book for fun, I probably would not have read the whole thing and focussed on the motives of these people.
4. I think I missed reading for fun and reading what I would like to read. I think if I was able to choose a book from a broader list, I could have enjoyed it a little bit more.
5. One benefit for critical lenses is that you read closely. The downside is that it takes away the fun of reading.
6. My belief on Lolita was that some people are disgusting. The novel made my belief even stronger.
7. I learned that blogging is not too hard.
   
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Blog Post #4- Responding and Reflecting: Scarlet Letter

During my reading of the Scarlet Letter, I have learned a lot about social perception and self esteem. Hester, before the incident, was a very spirited girl-- one who would fight back and have no shame for herself. However, once she was caught and forced to wear the Scarlet Letter, something within her changed, She began to look at herself as not just a person who was caught in adultery, but as a representation of the Scarlet Letter itself. She was filled with shame and began to believe in everything that the town though of her-- evil, wrong, unworthy, outcast, slut. Her spirit was then broken. Looking through these passages with the psychoanalytical lens made it easier to stop why Hester felt the sudden shame and distaste in herself so rapidly and continuously throughout the novel. These feelings all came from an outside source stating she was not good enough and did not fit into societies morals and regulations, and therefore should be banished. When I read about this I was very upset and frustrated that she let the towns thoughts and perspectives define who she was and had become. However, this is still seen and done in today's society through social media and the societies perception on what makes a person beautiful and worthy. We have images of the perfect woman who is usually a white skinny blond female and women all over are faced to deal with the opinions of others based on the "perfect image". This caused women to lose a lot of self esteem and make them feel as if the observations of others define who they are, just like Hester. I don't think I will ever let my actions first of all define me or to let my community decide how I should be treated based solely on my actions alone.

Blog Post #3- Critical Lens Experts: Scarlet Letter

The article SHAME CONFLICTS AND TRAGEDY IN THE SCARLET LETTER, by Benjamin Kilborne primarily focuses and analyzes the shame that Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale felt, claiming that “ Dimmesdale’s is more unbearable than Hester’s” and is “deeper and more toxic” (465). Kilborne takes note that while Hester’s shame is put out on her chest for the entire world to see, that having to keep the shame inside of you, like Dimsdale makes matters worse. Kilborne defines shame as, “a fundamental reaction to (and a defense against) “wrong feelings,” or being helpless in the face of the intensity of feelings, or being flooded by feelings one cannot understand”. This shame is dangerous not only because of its intensity of feelings it holds, but because of the threat it had to one's ego, composure, and self reliance (467). As the Scarlet Letter represents those things, Dimmsdale, unable to display these feelings is in fact dim and cold himself. It is here that Kilborne begins to make comparisons between the book and the author themselves. He notes that, “Dimmesdale is never able to come forward as a father, never able to value the father-child bond” (467), may represent Hawthorne’s own father as his passed away when he was 4. I took this to assume that Dimmesdale's actions and shame is coming from what Hawthorne would think that his own father would experience if he was still alive. These ideas of shame and how Dimmesdale's is worse than Hester’s made me think more about the perspective of the father. I had been reading this from such a personal biased view, that I haven’t thought to look deeper into Dimmesdale's own feelings to see how much shame he was actually feeling. I knew that the guilt of leaving Hester to deal with it on her own was on his heart, but I never thought to think and look for the shame he had within himself. After reading this article, I read through the book in a new light, figuring out which was worse-- the shame out in public display for the whole world to see, or it living inside you until the day you die, slowly threatening one’s composure and state of mind.

Blog Post #2- Critical Lens Close Reading: Scarlet Letter

It is interesting to see how much affect the scarlet letter on Hester's chest has on Hester herself compared to her own child, Pearl. We can see that the town has acted collectively-- giving mean looks in the streets, kids teasing her own child, and the shunning that takes place whenever she crosses paths with them-- even though she gives to them what they don't to her. Hester also puts the blame on herself as if the Scarlet Letter now defined her. However, the effects of the scarlet has not damaged her daughter Pearl’s life or perspective of her mother. Hester fears that her child will be deemed as dark and evil as, “She knew that her deed had been evil...She looked fearfully into the child’s expanding nature; ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity, that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being” (pg 80). None of this turns out to be true as Pearl was a perfect child-- just in an unfortunate circumstance. Hester sees the children of the town playing among one another and growing up together and longs for her child to have the same experiences, but knows that her child could never have them seeing as “Mother and daughter stood together in the same circle of seclusion from human society” (85). While this bothered Hester, Pearl doesn’t seem to mind. “If the children gathered around her, as they sometimes did, Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with a shrill, incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble, because they had so much the sound of a witch’s anathemas in some unknown tongue” (84). I find this quote significant in demonstrating how Hester’s perspective of Pearl is from the influence of the town and the Scarlet Letter. She believes that her child, because she was born unlawfully, will forever be internally evil not considering the fact the Pearl is untouched by the wrongdoing of her mother and is normal relative to everyone's beliefs. The Scarlet Letter has not only changed the way Hester lives her life, but also the way she perceives it and her child.

Blog Post 7-Close Reading #3

Lolita

“ ‘I want you to leave your incidental Dick, and this awful whole, and come to live with me, and die with me, and everything with me..if you refuse you will still get your...trousseau’...I handed her an envelope with [400] dollars in cash and a check for three hundred thousand six hundred more”

This is said by Humbert Humbert after visiting Lolita. This is after Lolita ditches Humbert and after she is married and is pregnant. She has asked Humbert to giver her some money as she is poor. When he gets to her house, he asks her to come with him back to his place. This shows that Humbert Humbert still loves Lolita and misses her even though she has been away fro 2 years. Due to this love and care for her he gives her money. However, it is not a little money, it is 400 thousand (equal to $3,544,320 today). That is a ton of money. It was probably most of Humbert’s savings.

For someone to give away that much money and not even knowing they will get what they want, they must care. This shows ultimate love to give away 3 million dollars to Lolita knowing she might not come back. He loves her so much and is willing to lose money for her.

 
This is the scene from the 1962 movie Lolita.

Scarlet Letter

“People of New England...I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood; here, with this woman...Lo, the scarlet letter in which Hester wears!...But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered!..Thou, too, hast deeply sinned!” (233-234)

This quote is being said by the minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, as admits to the people of New England that  it was him who had an affair with Hester and he is the father of Pearl. During this time, the physician, Roger Chillingworth is very mad and annoyed with him as he is Hester’s long lost husband. He also does not want the minister to admit that he had the affair. I think that it is because he doesn’t warn it to affect Pearl of Hester. The minister admits this as he is very ill and feels very bad. I know that he feels bad as he says “But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered!” He realizes that he should have also been in trouble and blamed for what happened. Since he is a very religious man he asks God for forgiveness and admits that he too has sinned.

Unfortunately after admitting this, Arthur Dimmesdale dies. The townspeople also see a scarlet “A” on his chest. I know that after this part, Roger Chillingworth does not seek revenge and dies. After Hester Prynne dies some years later, she is buried next to Roger Chillingworth.

 
This is the scene when Arthur Dimmesdale admits to being the one Hester had an affair with. Shortly after, he dies. This is from the 1995 movie.