A_Love_That_Could_Never_Be

A Love That Could Never Be A Love That Could Never Be Have you ever loved someone so much, but you couldn’t be with them' In “The Scarlet Letter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates a love that could never be with Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Since Hester was shone from a normal life in society after her acts of adultery, she could not be with the man she loved. Since Mr. Dimmesdale was the “saint on earth” (Hawthorne 251) he was also not able to show his affection towards Prynne in public or even in private. In the opening chapters we first begin to learn about Hester, but never about the man she committed adultery with. While on the scaffold the townspeople gather around her and watch as the magistrates try to convince her to tell who the man was. “Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman’s heart!”(Hawthorne 70) Hester loved this man so much she felt that it was no need for her to bring him down with her. So she stood up on the scaffold with the baby in her arms “ And would that I might endure his agony, as well as mine!” (Hawthorne 71) Hester realizes that if she confesses the name of scarlet, letter, dimmesdale, hester, hawthorne, man, sin, pearl, about, out, love, knows, god, confess, loved, father, able, together, scaffold, one, never, meet, learn, heart, even, committed, chillingworth, yet, while, suffering, something, secret, roger, name, go, day, alone, again