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. ... Because of his fasting and the mark he created on his chest, the reverend begins to have hallucinations. ... As you can see, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is a coward, a masochist, and basically a hopeless man who keeps lying to himself t...

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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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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. ... (Page 49) Reverend Dimmesdale is seen as a godly man. ... (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 Dimmesdale has become real pale and looks almost dead and also begins to lose his mind, this is scene on the scaffold. ... ...

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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 has committed the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne. ... Ironically, Reverend Dimmesdale asks Hester "who she has committed the sin with?"... Now, Chillingworth does not yet suspect that Dimmesdale is the other adulterer so he helps the reverend to become well again. ... Dimmesdale doesn't respond well to this and Chillingworth begins to suspect Dimmesdale of hiding something. ... Because of the guilt that Chillingworth has brought out of Dimmesdale, The Reverend becomes mentally unstable. ...

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As his mental stability falls quickly down into his own hell, Reverend Dimmesdale proves to be the worst off among the main characters. ... Throughout the story, the reverend was struggling to cope with the immense guilt of partaking in this crime. ... What seems so mocking to the situation later in the book, Reverend Dimmesdale commanded Hester to speak the name of her fellow sinner: I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer! ... The social implications of confessing his sins to the townspeople would be devastating to the reverend. ... Who but Arthur Dimmesd...

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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. Roger Chillingworth who was a physician as well as Hester's husband, moves in with Reverend Dimmesdale because Dimmesdale was growing sick. ... In this novel, an anguished Arthur Dimmesdale struggles to quiet his conscience and withhold the secret of his sin from being known. ... In the novel, Arthur Dimmesdale wa...

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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. ... When they perceived it was the Reverend Dimmesdale in another of his midnight vigils rather than a cry for help, they stumbled right back to their sleeping chambers. Dimmesdale is tortured by his silence. ... He felt it critical to admit his sin to himself and to his community and brethren, "... the Reverend Mr. ...

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By the second of such scenes, the story is in the middle of its development, and the guilt of Arthur Dimmesdale has fully developed. ... Examining Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth in the context of the scaffold scenes, shows that honesty overcomes deception. ... Examining Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth in the context of scaffold scene one, shows the seeds of honesty and deception. ... Examining Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth in the second scaffold scene, shows the development of honesty and deception at th...

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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. ... With a guilty conscience, Dimmesdale's mental health suffers, along with his ability to restrain himself from talking to Reverend Wilson while he was on the scaffold. However, Dimmesdale does not speak to the Reverend, the guilt he feels inside has caused him to believe ...

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She is the mother of her only daughter, Pearl, who was conceived in sin with the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Arthur Dimmesdale is the reverend of the small puritan society, and Hester's partner in sin. ... Hester chooses not to reveal Arthur Dimmesdale's identity because she does not want to hurt him. ... Hester Prynn is also the person who allows Roger Chillingworth to secretly torture Arthur Dimmesdale. ... She instigates Arthur Dimmesdale's torture and eventual death. ...

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Dimmesdale, a key character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter, had to face. ... At the beginning of the novel, Dimmesdale has established quite a reputation for himself. ... Due to his actions, all of the people respect and look up to the Reverend. ... In further developing Dimmesdale's character, Hawthorne portrays him as a hypocrite. ... Similarly, there are also some things that go on that are out of Dimmesdale's control. ...

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Two works of literature that display both aspects of this society very accurately are The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. ... The man, Reverend Dimmesdale, hides his sin from the world, is almost worshipped by the townspeople, but is filled with the shame of his action. ... In The Scarlet Letter, these people are the ones who loathe Hester, but love Reverend Dimmesdale. ... In The Scarlet Letter, there is a minister, Dimmesdale, a political! ... One specific parallel between characters is that of Reverend Parris and Dimmesdale. ...

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The actions of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne were done for the soulful purpose of love; however Puritan's society looked down upon Hester Prynne for the actions of her sins. ... Although Hester Prynne could not deny the guiltiness of her sin, for she was with child, her partner, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, could not face the consequences of confessing to such a sin amongst his congregation... But, The last third of this novel takes place between Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne. Here the reader finds Hester Prynne in the woods waiting for Reverend Dimmesdale t...

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The characters John Proctor, Hester Pryne, and Arthur Dimmesdale are characters who are influenced by their storys society or environment exposure. ... She did not find her husband sufficient for love because of his age and decided that Arthur was the man for her. ... That making her want Arthur to be in the picture with her so they can be as a family. ... Arthur Dimmesdale, the reverend in The Scarlet Letter, is pressured that being a minister is bad when it comes to commiting adultry or having any sexual relations with any one. ... Roger Chillingworth was trying to k...

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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale committed adultery, but when his mistress, Hester Prynne, became pregnant he remained quiet. ... Although this is not that bad compared to the pain and torture Dimmesdale goes through. ... Not the sin itself caused this pain to Dimmesdale, but the fact that he could talk of it with no one and revealing it to the public would ruin him. ...

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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. Despite his outer appearance, inside Dimmesdale is a very stable, strong person. ... Dimmesdale was not courageous in his actions in the story but strong. ...

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Arthur Dimmesdale: a modern man caught within the realm of the puritans. ... Dimmesdale is hiding in fear as he travels his path to reconciliation. ... The puritans strong moral code, along with their strong laws and ethical beliefs have driven this reverend, a man who has taken vows and lived in poverty, into a state where he fears love. ... The reverend says "Come up hither once again, and we will stand all three together!" ... These words show that Dimmesdale now doubts his own faith. ...

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Reverend Dimmesdale would not have any sin to hide that would almost cause him death by not admitting to the sin. ... Lastly, Roger Chillingsworth would not have caused himself an early death by making it his sole purpose in life to seek revenge on Reverend Dimmesdale for inpregnating Hester. ... Hester fell in love with the glorified Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and realized she was pregnant with his baby. ... Pearl really couldn't help the fact that she was the result of a sin commited by her mother and Reverend Dimmesdale. ... Although Hester Prynne and Arther Dimmesdale both ...

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Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale has many opportunities to acknowledge his wrongdoing. ... When Dimmesdale went to the scaffold during the night he had the opportunity to tell Reverend Mr. ... Pearl asked the Reverend to stand with her and Hester on the scaffold in the daytime; he declines even though they would have all stood together. ... The respect given to Arthur Dimmesdale for being of high social standard in his society was an honor that ended up being his major downfall, for he loses his sanity, his love, and his livelihood in the dreadful depths of sin. ... The supreme...

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The main characters include Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Reverend Dimmesdale. ... Townspeople also look down upon Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, another main character in the story. Dimmesdale also commits the sin of adultery. ... Dimmesdale begins to feel guilt for what he has done. ... Arthur Dimmesdale's also one of the most guilty of the characters because he took part, along with Hester, in the major sin which influences the others to actually happen. ...

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First, Hawthorne sets Chillingworth up as the antithesis of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the obvious Christ-like symbol of the novel. Chillingworth avidly sets out to ruin Dimmesdale. As the narrative voice says when referring to Chillingworth's discovery of the Dimmesdale's secret, "All that guilty sorrow, hidden from the world, whose great heart would have pitied and forgiven, to be revealed to him, the Pitiless, to him, the Unforgiving!" ... Symbolically, on another more obvious note, Chillingworth steals one of Dimmesdale's gloves and drops it on the scaffold where sinners ar...

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These three sinners, in the eyes of the puritan community are the beautiful Hester Prynne, the esteemed Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and the cold-hearted doctor, Roger Chillingworth. ... Arthur Dimmesdale is a strong pillar of the community and a very devoted Puritan. ... Dimmesdale did get punished, but it was in private. ... What Chillingworth does is befriend the good Reverend and become his doctor. ... The quote that brings the whole book together is one where Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale are in the woods and they are discussing the magnitude of their sin. ...

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Upon this assumption, Hester committed a crime of adultery with her fellow minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Roger Chillingworth, who is a physician, moves in with Reverend Dimmesdale because Dimmesdale is growing ill. While living with Dimmesdale, he discovers that Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl and seeks revenge on him by hurting him more than curing him of his illness. On the day that Arthur is planning on running away with Hester and Pearl, he instead walks up to the scaffold with Hester and Pearl to reveal his sin to his congregation. ... Dimmesdale's sin should have been more ...

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Two main characters that live with guilt and sin throughout the novel are Hester Prynne and the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester cheated on her husband (Roger Chillingsworth) with the Reverend Dimmesdale. ... Dimmesdale's sin and guilt however, remained a secret. ... However, Before Hester and Dimmesdale could leave, Dimmesdale had to make one last speech. ... After his speech Dimmesdale became pale and weak. ...

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