Arthur Dimmesdale In The Scarlet Letter

In his first speech Dimmesdale's purpose is to get Hester Prynne to confess who the father is. This accusatory purpose Dimmesdale conveys is trying to get Hester Prynne to confess but at the same time keep her mouth shut. "I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer" (Hawthorne 57). This quote shows that Dimmesdale asks Hester publicly the Who the father is so the Community does not get suspicious of the authority of Dimmesdale. In Dimmesdale's second speech his purpose changes from accusatory to remorseful. With seven years passing and Dimmesdale harming himself he wants to be free of the guilt of the secret. " It seemed, at this point, as if the minister must leave the remainder of his secret disclosed. But he fought back the bodily weakness- and, still more, the faintness of heart." ( Hawthorne 208). This quote shows that Dimmesdale is weakly fighting back the guilt of his secret and he can not take it anymore. He has had enough of living with the lie so he

The Scarlet Letter is a book filled with sins of many different kinds. There is lying, adultery, and transgressions throughout the novel. However, there is a man who consistently models all these sins together--Arthur Dimmesdale. He is guilty of lying to his people, encouraging a woman to cheat on her husband, and committing transgressions against God and man. For this, he has sinned the worst of all characters.

Life is unpredictable, and through trial and error humanity learns how to respond to conflicts and learns how to benefit from mistakes. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a character who changes and gains knowledge from the trials he faces, but first he has to go through physical, spiritual, and emotional agony. In the midst of all the havoc, the young theologian is contaminated with evil but fortunately his character develops from fragile to powerful, and the transformation Dimmesdale undergoes contributes to the plot’s climax.

There is a fine line between hypocrisy and cowardice.  Arthur Dimmesdale, a principal character in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter provides a perfect example of how thin that line can be.   The Scarlet Letter relates a story about sin and the many consequences of not having strength of character.  The true nature of Reverend Dimmesdale's character has been debated since the first publication of the novel.  Dimmesdale is considered by many to be a hypocrite because he cared more about protecting his reputation than he did about protecting the woman he loved.   Others view the Reverend in a more sympathetic light and see him as not a hypocrite, but as a good man

Reverend Dimmesdale is a beloved Puritan minister who's Hester's paramour and father of Pearl. One of rivaling enemies is Chillingworth, physician and Hester's husband, who suspects Dimmesdale is Pearl's father. He begins to notice Dimmesdale declining health and considers moving in with him to ‘nurse him back to health.’ However, as a means of revenge, he takes the opportunity to implement torture and pain upon him. One night, when Dimmesdale falls asleep, Chillingworth sneaks a glance at his chest and discovers a carving within his chest. He then dances with glee and enjoys the sight of subtle torture Dimmesdale has self-inflicted since the “doctor’s joy from Satan’s was the quality of wonder.” The discovery of Dimmesdale's chest may have

Within the pages of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous novel, The Scarlet Letter, the character of Arthur Dimmesdale, minister in the puritan society, changes tremendously. Specifically in chapters nine through eleven is where his change is most evident. In chapter 9, on page 116, Hawthorne offers up an intricate description of Dimmesdale, his newly discovered sin, and how he is dealing or rather not dealing, with the repercussions of his sin. This description depicts Dimmesdale’s epic struggle with his sin while being a minister in such an oppressive society like the Puritans, and how the deed is slowly eating him alive.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the young Arthur Dimmesdale is a highly respected reverend in 17th century puritanical Massachusetts. However, he is the most morally ambiguous character in the novel because of the one great sin he commits and fails to readily confess. For this, he suffers an internal affliction that destabilizes his physical and spiritual composure. Dimmesdale’s sin was detrimental, but this action cannot qualify him as a bad person because in all other aspects, he is as righteous as the Puritans came. This moral ambiguity of Dimmesdale plays a pivotal role in the novel because it allows the reader to distinguish between true good and evil.

Dimmesdale portrays himself very ironically. He is a very well respected reverend and yet, has, for the last 7 years, worked on preaching the word of God, especially while he urges the congregation to confess openly to repent unto God. While, in reality, Dimmesdale is the one whoneeds a clean conscious. He feels like he needs to confess not only to the town but also too himself. Halfway through the novel

How do you view yourself? Do you have high or low self-esteem? If you do something that is wrong, do you confess it or keep it to yourself? Matters like these are presented in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book, The Scarlet Letter. In Hester Prynne, we see an example of a person whose sin is known to everyone. In Arthur Dimmesdale, we see an example of a person whose sin is kept to himself. He suffered daily from the guilt of his secret, and yearned for it to be publicly exposed. Though they both experienced great shame, Dimmesdale’s situation was likely much worse than Hester’s, because the way in which people saw him was not the truth. Thus, in Chapter 24, Hawthorne proclaimed that we should “be true,” and “show freely to the world, if not

Dimmesdale uses hypocrisy as a way of repressing the truth as well as a way of protecting his reputation and deceiving his congregation. Hawthorne uses stylistic elements such as allegorical representation and unconventional perspective to communicate the deceptiveness of hypocrisy and its devastating effects on a person such as arthur Dimmesdale. Who, demonstrated how hypocrisy leads to inner anguish and decay of a once irrefragable identity. Though Arthur impacted his community with powerful sermons about the repercussion of guilt, in the end he couldn't handle it himself. His weakness forced him to succumb to the guilt and hypocrisy. Dimmesdale's demise was the most tragic out of all the lives in the scarlet letter. Easily corrupted his intentions were only benign. Though Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts him as weak and unable the minister only wanted to do right by the eyes of god. Dimmesdale, the most humanized character full of pathos. Sacrificing his own identity to a lifetime of guilt in order to save his beloved congregation. He could have confessed at anytime but was fully aware of the consequences it would bring and the chaos it would unleash upon the society. He maintained a false pretense and an estranged relationship from the woman and child he loved in order to serve

In the Scarlet Letter there are characters that are important to the novel; however there is one specific character that relates to the topic of the story is Arthur Dimmesdale. The character Arthur Dimmesdale is a respected minster in Boston. However even though, Arthur Dimmesdale is a minister and preaches against sin to his congregation, he commits the ultimate sin with a young married woman named Hester Pryne. For punishment Hester Pryne becomes pregnant and shunned from public society, Dimmesdale is forced to live with guilt and later in the novel dies from the same sin within his body. Critics that have read the Scarlet letter would argue that Dimmesdale is a weak or ennobled character because he didn’t tell the community of his sinful crime. Another characteristic that critics would agree on is that Dimmesdale was a hypocrite. Arthur Dimmesdale is a character that is weak and hypocritical to his own belief.

After the minister's clandestine meeting with Hester in the forest, Hester has convinced him that they must leave the colony and return to England where they can live together as a family. Arthur Dimmesdale departs, looking backward, uncertain of what he has truly experienced. With the quandary of public hypocrisy and private suffering seemingly solved now, Dimmesdale's mind is free to consider other possibilities, and, like a child released from rules, his spirit feels a sense of release. He considers that he yet has time to give the Election Sermon, deceiving himself that the townspeople will at least say he performed his duties to the end. Having held his sin within his heart so long, Dimmesdale has become delusional. Of this Hawthorne

The Puritan society was strict, religious, and slightly insane. Most famously known for the Salem Witch Trials, it is the perfect setting for The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne is an adulteress, she bore a child, and is forced to wear a scarlet letter ‘A’ on her breast for the rest of her time on earth. The father of the baby is none other than Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, but that isn’t found out until several years after Pearl, the child of Hester, is born. Dimmesdale is often seen as a weak character because of his reluctance to present himself to the community as the father of Pearl.

The character of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is uniquely complicated. Although it may seem as his personality is straightforward and easily comprehensible, his character sketch is symbolic and controversial. Throughout the novel, his behavior significantly changes. Changes in expression of Dimmesdale and other characters uncover the beauty of Hawthorne’s ambiguous style greatly. Reverend's identity changes from a physically ill person who is concerned about his position in the society to a suffering and conflicting personage.

The guilt that plagues Arthur Dimmesdale, leads to the climax of the novel, in which Dimmesdale overcomes his inner conflict. Throughout the entire book, Dimmesdale has struggled with trying to reveal what he has done. At first he is to cowardly to do this, but eventually Dimmesdale realizes the only way to redeem himself is to confess his sins and repent. Knowing it is the only way to redemption, Dimmesdale goes before the whole town, with Hester and Pearl, and reveals his sin to the people. Dimmesdale’s