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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Reverend Dimmesdale later persuades Bellingham that it was God's will to keep Pearl with her mother. ... Chillingworth does not punish Dimmesdale publicly. ... The being that should be torturing Dimmesdale is Satan himself. ... Arthur Dimmesdale suffers internally for the sin he committed with Hester. ... Dimmesdale is never punished for his sin by the Puritans. ...

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Could the lust for social status and financial security at this time have contributed to Hester's later lust for Reverend Dimmesdale? ... Her own daughter Pearl does not acknowledge Hester when she takes the symbol off her dress as she sits and converses with Arthur Dimmesdale in the forest. ...

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