This novel's conclusion beseeches the reader to "Be true! Be true!
This novel's conclusion beseeches the reader to "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!" This novel declares: "let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her art!", in a scene in which a woman curses her husband while her daughter fashions a mermaid costume out of seaweed from a nearby tidepool. A girl in this novel is warned that: "We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest," when she is tempted to go up and return the (*) kiss of a man she recognizes at a procession. A character in this novel climbs up a scaffold, declares himself to be the "one sinner of the world" before his congregation and dies, right after delivering a wildly popular sermon on Election Day. This novel ends by revealing that its protagonist shares a headstone with Arthur Dimmesdale bearing the title symbol. For 10 points, name this novel about the adulterous Hester Prynne, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This novel's conclusion beseeches the reader to "Be true! Be true!
The Scarlet Letter