How are the conflicts in the The Scarlet Letter resolved? Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

The conflicts
of thein are resolved, ironically, on the scaffold, a setting
which foreshadowed conflict in Chapter I.  Yet, there are two scenes in which the scaffold
appears after the initial scaffold scene, so interpretations of the resolutions of the
characters' conflicts differ.

In Chapter XII, The Reverend Dimmesdale goes
out at night and steps onto the scaffold, driven "hither by the impulse of that Remorse
which dogged him everywhere."  While he stands on this scaffold,andpass by; he calls to
them--"we will stand all three together!"--and has them join hands with him there.  As
they do so,

there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of
new life, other life than his own, pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying through
all his veins, s if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half
torpid...