The Meteor as a Symbol in the Scarlet Letter

The Meteor that Dimmesdale sees in Chapter 12 of Nathaniel Hawthornes The cherry-red Letter is an important figure. As the minister watches the night sky, together with Hester and Pearl, a meteoroid appears that traces out an A. While almost of the people think that the A stands for apotheosis and is showing that Governor Winthrop is g unrivalled and it attach his the entry to heaven, which leave behind be proof later on, but Dimmesdale, on the former(a) fade, interprets it differently.Him hiding his sins and cover his heart with his hand, the A reminds him of Hesters Scarlet Letter. He thinks, it is a sign for him to wear the accentuate of shame too, so as Hester does. visual perception that God is trying to show his sins to the public, what he does not want, even through he is dying of that. The minister moreover exit find peace by carnal knowledge and confessing his sin and accepting it finally, to what he is not able to do until the end of the book.This figure shows us that there is more than one way to interpret things, like the puritan way, who think of messages from God, typical warnings and bad things that will happen to them affecting their community. Dimmesdale only thinks astir(predicate) himself and the issue he has, he only interprets the meteor his way and no other, the symbol helped pushing him forward to finally make up the courage, he so severely needs to confess in precedent of the townspeople.