American Literature
Another time he goes up to the scaffold where Hester and Pearl stood. He makes a noise, wanting people
to come out and look at him to force him into a confession, but alas no one looks. Just then Hester and Pearl arrive and they stand there with him
and Pearl asks "Wilt thou stand here with Mother and me, tomorrow noontide?" Dimmesdale refuses. Hester convinces him to run away with her
and Pearl and he accepts. After he delivers his final sermon he runs over to the scaffold finnally admits what he has done and dies. Overall he is
punished much greater than he is rewarded. Hester Prynne commits the biggest sin of the book, for which she is caught. We can only speculate
what would have happened if she didn't confess and wasn't caught. However there were sins she committed that she didn't confess. First, she didn't
tell who her accomplice was in committing adultery. For not confessing this she is rewarded and punished. She is rewarded by keeping Dimmesdale