The symbol of Hester's sin, recognizes in her mother's lack of response to her questions that Dimmesdale will not be like her mother; he will not, as Hawthorne urges in the final chapter and as Hester is, "be true" and acknowledge Hester and their child in public.
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The answer to the above question is B which is "problems faced by characters". Shakespear want to prove that the characters in crisis same as in the real life as in the setting in the story is in coloney that at war with the French, he tried to make the character be in the real life senario.
