The Scarlett Letter

Dimmesdale who is one of the main character in the Scarlet letter by Nathaniel hawthorne, appeared to be sick and haved sinned. Dimmesdale and hester prynne both have commit the sin adultery. Hester was punished but Dimmesdale had hid his sin for only Hester knew until her husband came and found out.

The character that this book revolves around is Hester Prynne and the burden that she has to carry for her crime. Hester was charged with committing adultery and having a baby with another man other than her husband. Even though the usual punishment for this crime in her time was death, she was shown mercy and just had to wear a red letter A

The book “The Scarlet letter” is a story that is based on the theme of adultery and the consequences of one's actions. It starts off by introducing the setting of the story then with the characters gradually as you get deeper into the book. It is based on the scarlet letter ‘A’ it means to be connected to the sin behind the ‘A’ during the time being shamed and being the odd one out in the center of attention. The main character of the story is Hester Prynne, a woman who represents adultery and the story describes and talks about her life from when she was in prison and shamed until the day she passes away and is buried by the father of her child, Pearl. The man who is the father of the child is someone she still loves, Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout

Dimmesdale as an individual and through his secret actions symbolize how self-centered and egotistical he is. Both Dimmesdale and Hester committed adultery, but Hester was the one who got all the hatred and disrespect from everyone in the Puritan town. She went through some awful situations with the scarlet letter, and it changed her so much. While she was going through all this pain, Dimmesdale was hiding his sins. This was a selfish act by Dimmesdale towards Hester and Pearl, but not admitting the sin bit him right in the butt. He was torturing himself and receiving physical pain in various ways; he whipped himself, stared at the mirror for periods of time, and starved himself. Even though he didn’t reveal his sin to the public, his heart was still “making itself guilty of such secrets” (127). He felt very guilty for the agony that Hester has been through. She has experienced hatred from herself mentally and from the Puritan people verbally. He didn’t want the people to treat him like they treated Hester; he loves how he gets respect from the townspeople. The only pain he has received was from himself mentally and physically, but not verbal and emotional pain like Hester. He doesn’t want to experience those dreadful moments that she had gone through. This action proves to the readers how Arthur Dimmesdale symbolizes self-centered

However, unlike Hester Prynne who symbolizes the exposed sin, Dimmesdale never gets the relief of forgiving himself. As the novel progresses, Dimmesdale’s weakness portrays his guilt from keeping his sin a secret. Hawthorne displays that a publicized sin is the only way Dimmesdale can get rid of his guilt and shame, and that his method of

Both characters are put down by their own struggles but naturally learn very different lessons. Dimmesdale slowly but surely begins to understand how severe the damages of his guilt, hiding, and hypocrisy are to his soul. He goes through intense episodes of self harm and abuse as he lives with Chillingworth, the evil physician who acts as a catalyst to strengthening the grief and guilt that shadows poor Dimmesdale. After seven long years of hiding his sin and relationship with Hester from the public, Dimmesdale realizes how absurd his decision to conceal his struggle is. While conversing with Hester in the shadowy forest, free from Puritan judgement, Dimmesdale exclaims, "Else, I should long ago have thrown off these garments of mock holiness, and have shown myself to mankind as they will see me at the judgment-seat. Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! Mine burns in secret!" (Hawthorne 167). Dimmesdale is finally brought to his senses when he reveals his admiration for Hester’s bravery in being accountable for the sin. He realizes that if he could have adopted his sin upon the scaffold as hester does seven years prior, he would be much better off. While Dimmesdale sees Hester embracing her sin, he feels that she has put herself through much

Dimmesdale delivers a wonder sermon on the town’s election day, but as unfortunately for him, the bad things keep snowballing. Dimmesdale takes Hester by the hand and brings her up on a familiar scaffold with him, and he finally confesses his sin of committing adultery with Hester. Dimmesdale then reveals a scarlet letter “A” on his chest, put there by himself or as a sign from God, therefore revealing his shame and guilt by letting everyone see. Shortly after, while still on the scaffold, he dies. Dimmesdale may have had a lot of bumps in the road on his journey through life, but did he end by doing the right thing. By bringing Hester up on the scaffold with to finally confess his sin he finally practices what he has preached that those who sin must be punished, thus the scarlet letter. It also shows, although not displayed at the beginning of the story because of his cowardness to confess sooner, that Dimmesdale is courageous enough to display his wrong doings to the public instead of hiding it furthermore. Dimmesdale had his ups and downs throughout life, but did still prove that he was a man of God and stood by his

“If thou feelest it to be for thy soul’s peace, and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be made more effectual to salvation, I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer!” (Hawthorne 62). Dimmesdale feels it is best for Hester to reveal his identity to the Puritan society, so they can suffer the punishment of sin together. However, Dimmesdale’s lack of courage-- and Hester's loyalty to him-- prevents the truth of the sin from being revealed. Consequently, Dimmesdale deals with a heavy weight of guilt throughout the book.

The first most important scene is in the beginning of the book when Hester is introduced and when her sin is described. The sin she committed was adultery. For committing this sin, she must stand on a scaffold outside of the prison holding her baby in her arms while the Puritan women judge and shame her. The women are

The first major scene in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is the first few sceness of the book. Here, in the first few scene, we are introduced to everything that we need to know about this novel. We establish our main characters, Hester Prynne, Hester 's daughter Pearl, Reverend Arthur

While her husband was doing his business in England, Hester has an affair with a man of her age, Arthur Dimmesdale. She has a baby that she called Pearl, but it obviously becomes public, and soon the whole city knows it. The unfair woman is exposed on a scaffold in her city so she is ashamed of what she did and to warn people

By revealing this small, hidden regret, he exposes Hester’s tortured state of mind. Unable to reach salvation in the town she desired to live in, she regretfully decided to leave and abandon her sorrows. The burden society placed on her with the scarlet letter was too demanding for her to handle any longer. Similarly, Arthur Dimmesdale was distressed from his ignominy. Afraid of societal repercussions, Dimmesdale had been “overcome with a great horror of mind, as if the universe were gazing at a scarlet token on his naked breast” (102). Society’s extensive honor toward him exacerbated his pain, thus causing society to trap Dimmesdale; this prevented him from revealing his dark secret and reaching salvation. Additionally, he began to picture his surroundings as an obstacle designed to hinder his path to redemption. His shortcoming to reach salvation agonized Dimmesdale to the point where he was incapable of recalling “[any] text of Scripture, nor aught else, except a brief, pithy, and, as it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immorality of

The Scarlett letter by nathaniel hawthorn conveys many charachteristics of being a gothic novel. There may be no ravens perched upon busts, dark castles, or hearts beating beneath the floorboards, but the novel contains a rich gothic element nonetheless, if only a bit more subtle. The dark imagery of the novel is inevitable due to its setting in time, The puritans where a rather dark community who doubted anything but god neverless Nathaniel uses this dark and gothic time peroid to set sadistic themes and settings within his novel, his progrogressive caliginous throughout ever chapter can suprise anyone, The villagers all wear old-fashioned clothing in varying shades of gray and other dim colors, the edifices seem to be crumbling despite their

In the beginning of the book Hester Prynne is standing upon a scaffold in front of the whole town with an infant

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