English Dork Club 2014

My Area of interest was with the appearance of our characters and how they are looked at by their peers. The superior peers of the town change their minds about the Pearl and "the Leech". In the beginning, the elders were close to separating Pearl and Hester but by the end of the chapter they say, "Even thus early had the child saved her from Satan's snare" (105). People look down on Pearl in the beginning but can so easily change their minds about her as well. The town does the same with Chillingworth. At the beginning when he shows up to town, people value the foreign doctors opinion bur by the end of the chapter people are calling Chillingworth Satan himself. "To sum up the matter... Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, like many other personages.... was haunted either by Satan himself, or SAtan's emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth" (115) The peers in the town changed their opinions very fast about Pearl and Chillingworth so what interests me is if they are going to find out the connection between Hester Prynne, Pearl, and Chillingworth (Mr. Prynne). If they do what will the consequences be? They have already changed their opinion of that family so many times, what will happen if they find out the truth?