The argument for Dimmesdale as a protagonist lies in the answers to the following questions. ... In Chapter 17 Hester tells Dimmesdale about his so-called friend "Thou hast long had such an enemy, and dwellest with him, under the same roof!"... But, with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and horror!" ... Hawthorne's novel brings to our moral judgment a questions of human ethics to all times and societies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He also ate wild berries, apples, an occasional fish if he had the opportunity to catch one, and he even cooked a woodchuck that he killed after finding it rummaging through his bean-field. ... The Dial was looked at as "a medium for the freest expression of thought on the questions which interest earnest minds in every community;" (Emerson: A Student's History). ... They explained that people learned about the physical world by using empiricism, but also to better understand the spiritual world and reality, one had to use another kind of power called "reason." ...

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Her minister, Dimmesdale repeatedly questions her and tells her to confess the name of her lover because hiding it does no good. ... It is hard for her to do this because Pearl is a wild child and is a basically the scarlet letter in the flesh. ... She calls Dimmesdale a "strange sad man" because she is not allowed to greet him outside of the forest. ...

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• Grade Level: High School