He can no longer hide behind his secret guilt, but must make public what he did seven years ago. ... Whatever he does, whether he goes on the scaffold and professes his sin, or moves to England with Hester and Pearl, this relationship can not work because in so many ways, Dimmesdale rejects the Scarlet Letter, in both human and supernatural forms, it now rejects him, evidenced by the reactions of Pearl in the last chapter, when she runs to the brook to was her head after she Dimmesdale kisses her. ... Laced between the lines of Hawthorne, among the paths and the scarlet letter, the town and ...

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The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel which portrays the message of sin and punishment, through the outcome of an adulterous relationship between Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale. ... When Dimmesdale said, "...methinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it all up in his heart", he delineates the contrasts between the fact that Hester can deal with her pain publicly, while he is forced to keep all of his emotions inside. ... His reaction, however, is not to palliate his suffering by confessin...

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