Character Analysis of Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter is a story of characters that have to live and deal with the effects of sin in different ways. Of these characters, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the character portrayed as the most weak and unnoble. Despite this portrayal Dimmesdale was a stronger character than given credit for. ... We first see Dimmesdale portrayed as a nervous and sensitive individual. ... Dimmesdale was not courageous in his actions in the story but strong. ...

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Dimmesdale: Someone from Above or Below? ... The Scarlet Letter's main character is noticed in the first chapters as Arthur Dimmesdale, the man who is responsible for the scarlet letter ever happening. ... Arthur Dimmesdale is a truly essential character to the Scarlet Letter, in that without him the scarlet letter wouldn't have been, and the novel never would have been written. ... This "rollercoaster- that Dimmesdale faces becomes his battle with fantasy and reality. ... Although Hester also finds a different way to look at a problem, Dimmesdale doesn't just look but acts ...

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Dimmesdale: Someone from Above or Below? ... The Scarlet Letter's main character is noticed in the first chapters as Arthur Dimmesdale, the man who is responsible for the scarlet letter ever happening. ... Arthur Dimmesdale is a truly essential character to the Scarlet Letter, in that without him the scarlet letter wouldn't have been, and the novel never would have been written. ... This "rollercoaster- that Dimmesdale faces becomes his battle with fantasy and reality. ... Although Hester also finds a different way to look at a problem, Dimmesdale doesn't just look but acts...

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Hawthorne illustrates that the lack of responsibility is harmful and should be held with contempt through the character Arthur Dimmesdale, the unholy minister whose guilt of being an adulterer eventually kills him. ... Hester threatens Arthur just to get him to come out of hiding. Obviously, showing capriciousness this lack of obligation not only torments Dimmesdale in the long run, but Hester and Pearl, the daughter of Hester and Arthur. ... What Hawthorne is trying to show his readers through the variant beliefs of the townspeople is that Arthur Dimmesdale's lack of responsibility u...

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One of the characters who experiences conflict in Hawthorne's book is the minister Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale's struggle was not with another person though. ... The cause of Dimmesdale's struggles are the same as Hester Prynne's. ... Later in the book, Dimmesdale becomes sick. ... At the end of the book, Dimmesdale finally resolves his conflict. ...

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Arthur Dimmesdale Dimmesdale is a scared man because he is Hester's lover but does not want to admit it. ... When Chillingworth opens Dimmesdale's shirt, he is overjoyed. ... He is not allowed into Dimmesdale soul as Dimmesdale tells him not to meddle in his personal affairs. ... The name Leech symbolizes what he is to Dimmesdale. ... This is because Dimmesdale had already confessed so Chillingworth had nothing to live for and his motive to do evil had faded with Dimmesdale's death. ...

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Arthur Dimmesdale In The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is considered a very honorable person by almost everyone in the Puritan town. ... Adversely to the common opinion of the townspeople, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is not very honorable and does not deserve any praise whatsoever. ... Arthur Dimmesdale is also a masochist. ... Furthermore, Arthur Dimmesdale seems to believe that the injuring of his body is supposed to purify himself from the sin he committed, without the punishment of other townspeople muttering about him and using him as an example of what ...

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Using plot points, dialogue, or other specific descriptions from the text, pick out at least three places from the first half of the novel (through "The Leech") that lead the reader to believe what is ultimately true: that Arthur Dimmesdale has a very big secret. Hawthorne gives the reader subtle hints throughout the first half of the novel that may lead to the identification of Hester's lover and Pearl's father, Arthur Dimmesdale, before he publicly announces his true identity near the end of the novel. ... This accusation alone hints greatly at Pearl's father bein...

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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses three scenes on the scaffold to emphasize suffering and torment in Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is tormented throughout the story and in all three scenes with the scaffold. ... Dimmesdale's torture is stretched throughout the story in all three scaffold scenes. ... This serves as an alternate way of branding the A into Dimmesdale's mind. ... All in all, Arthur Dimmesdale suffers the ultimate punishment for his sin. ...

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In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale commits adultery with Hester Prynne. The townspeople find out about Hester, but she doesn't tell anyone that Dimmesdale was involved. ... The townspeople didn't even suspect Dimmesdale of committing any kind of sin. To the townspeople Reverend Dimmesdale is the holiest and most perfect person in the town. ... For example, Dimmesdale had an opportunity to confess his crime to everyone, when Hester was on the scaffold being questioned by the governor and Reverend Dimmesdale. ...

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But none suffered as did the secret father of Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale, the town reverend who kept his secret bottled inside for seven years. ... He states that he would prefer to have the minister of her parish Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, inquire as to the identity of the father, but Arthur is disinclined to query that information. ... Seven years pass, and still Arthur Dimmesdale has not come forth to declare his partnership in Hester's sin. ... Arthur Dimmesdale is a broken man, hoping that he, Hester, and Pearl can escape to England to begin a new life. ... Dimmesdale even goes so...

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As Roger and Arthur spend more time together, Roger becomes more persistent in his quest for knowledge of Arthur's condition. ... Arthur is his own worst enemy. ... As a minister, Arthur Dimmesdale's role in society is to perpetuate these values. ... In the novel, Hester is the antithesis of Roger and Arthur. ... Because Dimmesdale and Chillingworth both view Arthur's and Hester's relationship as sinful, Roger and Dimmesdale are corrupted by obsessively being reminded of the lovers' seemingly evil act. ...

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The writers use John Proctor and Arthur Dimmesdale as pawns to illustrate the happy endings through moral reconciliation and spiritual reassessment. Arthur Dimmesdale is a pastor for the Puritan church in New England, where Hawthorne sets up the novel. ... Arthur's secrecy is what leads him to his sickness and downfall. ... Reverend Mister Dimmesdale confesses his sins on the town platform. ... His situation is slightly similar to Dimmesdales. ...

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The Metamorphosis of Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are many characters that transform; one of them is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Hester was punished for her sin but Arthur Dimmesdale had not admitted to it, so he lives with this guilt and it is much worst for him because he is a puritan minister. ... (Page 65) This is the first scaffold scene Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is not showing any signs of guilt at this point, he is still fairly the same and has not began to inflict punishment on himself or so it appears. ... Arthur Dimmesda...

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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and his friend John Wilson are introduced at the scaffold begging Hester to reveal the father of the baby so that he may suffer just as Hester does. Ironically, it turns out that Arthur Dimmesdale was the father of the baby and he and Hester knew it. ... In this novel, an anguished Arthur Dimmesdale struggles to quiet his conscience and withhold the secret of his sin from being known. ... The novel begins to seek into the heart and conscience of Arthur Dimmesdale when Roger Chillingworth questions him about his thoughts on sinners and their secrets. ... In the novel,...

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In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaneil Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. ... Arthur Dimmesdale, the Reverent and the protagonists" lover, was not a very powerful character. ... Hawthorne also marks the power that Dimmesdale gets when he is preaching which contradicts his actual weak character. ... Dimmesdale's health was lead to rapid deterioration, so he went to visit Roger Chillingworth, the real husband of the character Hester, and on...

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Dimmesdale: Tragic Hero? ... If you look back into time, Beowulf, Superman, King Arthur: these heroes were all looked up to by many. ... Dimmesdale's tragic flaw is his overpowering emotions. ... Strong emotions were Dimmesdale's. ... Dimmesdale eventually dies from his flaw. ...

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In a way, Dimmesdale is a very inscrutable character. ... Dimmesdale said. ... The final character is Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Dimmesdale's feels his love is so derisive that he wants to be with her forever. ... Even though Arthur felt that Roger Chillingworth was and impediment, he tried to put it to the side. ...

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In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaniel Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. ... Arthur Dimmesdale, the Reverent and the protagonists" lover, was not a very powerful character. ... Hawthorne also marks the power that Dimmesdale gets when he is preaching which contradicts his actual weak character. ... He returns to his town to find his wife, Hester, involved in an adultery crime with the character Dimmesdale. ... This discerning quality of his ma...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale has a difficult time finding a way to relieve his sin. ... It is the one place where Dimmesdale felt liberated to say anything he wished. ... It was the one place where Dimmesdale could find complete reconciliation. ... Dimmesdale is tortured by his silence. ... What horrifies Arthur is not his feeling of guilt, but his inability to feel the guilt which he believes he ought to feel, " If, in all these past seven years,"I could recall one instant of peace or hope, I would yet endure for the sake of that earnest of Heaven&#x...

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The sin of adultery affects Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, as well as the Physician Roger Chillingsworth. ... After many years, she earned the respect of many Puritans through her craftsmen work and sincerity of her silence; unlike her partner, and Pearls father, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Additionally, the "A" affects the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale emotionally, as well as, physically. ... These complications that lead Chillingsworth to live with Dimmesdale, as his physician. ... Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and the Physician Roger Chillingsworth were all...

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This theme along with its symbolism is demonstrated through the lives of the three main characters - Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth throughout the story. ... Here, at night, on the scaffold, Dimmesdale confesses his sin. ... Seeing as how Dimmesdale's mounting of the scaffold and standing with Hester and Pearl at night will not suffice, Arthur knows that sooner or later the symbolic acceptance of his guilt must actually take place publicly in the daylight. ... It will be during the day, publicly, and in the end, Arthur Dimmesdale will be forgiven; not only by hi...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale struggles to overcome sin, guilt, and public shame in Puritan society. Arthur Dimmesdale reveals his guilt and shame towards the end of the novel when Hester and Pearl stand with him on the scaffold while he confesses his sin to the townspeople. ... Dimmesdale's mentality is affected severely by shame. ... Chillingworth begins questioning Dimmesdale, but Dimmesdale refused to confess any of his sins and got angry. ... Dimmesdale needed to confess his sins to the townspeople on the scaffold, and the end result of con...

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While he was gone, his wife Hester, had an affair with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Dimmesdale is a young reverend who had an affair with Hester. ... He torments Dimmesdale throughout the entire story. ... Dimmesdale's sin was very bad. ... Dimmesdale was the one she had an affair with. ...

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It is the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, who is renowned as an especially holy and pious man. ... At the climax of the story, Dimmesdale confesses and dies. ... Arthur Dimmesdale, located above her on the balcony with the other reverend authorities, makes a plea to Hester Prynne to reveal the father but also to consider her actions carefully. If he is speaking of himself when he speaks of the other sinner, Arthur Dimmesdale is admitting that he has not the courage to confess. ... On the other hand, Arthur Dimmesdale is well respected in Boston and do not wish for his affair with Hester to be reve...

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