"Wilt thou yet forgive me?" she repeated, over and over again. "Wilt thou not frown? Wilt thou forgive? "I do forgive you, Hester,"replied the minister, at length, with a deep utterance out of an abyss of sadness, but no anger. "I freely forgive you now. May God forgive us both! We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. This quote in the Scarlet Letter came from page 115. This quote stuck out to be because at first it seems as if Hester is begging for the Priest forgiveness, when the priest was in this situation as well Hester was not alone. Hester could not live with the sadness she felt from him and how all the world had frowned upon her for seven years.
Hester seems to be fed up with the sorrow she is feeling through everything she has been through. She needs forgiveness to feel better about herself.
They sat together hand and hand and seemed to share a moment together, a much needed moment. They do describe the mood as gloomy, but had a charm. They describe the obscure forest around them and hearing it creak, telling us they sat in silence with eachothers presence. Hester expresses that for one moment Arthur Dimmesdale could be a true man.
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