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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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 the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale has committed the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne. ... Dimmesdale's first point of decent is his physical health. ... Dimmesdale doesn't respond well to this and Chillingworth begins to suspect Dimmesdale of hiding something. Chillingworth continues to do this to Dimmesdale. ... Chillingworth then plays mind games with Dimmesdale which eventually leads to Dimmesdale's mental breakdown....

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Reverend Dimmesdale and his physician, Roger Chillingworth, experience several transformations in their character. ... Nevertheless, his ability to manipulate makes it possible for Dimmesdale to consider him a confidant, thus making it possible for Chillingworth to explore Dimmesdale and use him as he wants. ... When Roger asks Dimmesdale, "You would tell me, then, that I know all?"... Hawthorne describes the physician's intentions with Arthur Dimmesdale mentioning he " strove to go deep into his patient's bossom, delving among his principles, prying into his recollections, and pr...

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Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale make poor decisions repeatedly because of lack of insight and uncontrolled emotions such as anger and fear. ... She commits the sin of adultery with a minister, Arthur Dimmesdale and has a child, Pearl. ... When Chillingworth finds out about Hester's sin of adultery, he decides to take revenge against Arthur Dimmesdale. ... The minister, Arthur Dimmesdale also makes a bad choice that led him to a miserable life. ... Dimmesdale has an affair with Hester. ...

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While he is gone she has an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, and the price of this sin was a beautiful girl which she names Pearl. ... Dimmesdale's sin causes him to take a turn for the worse. Dimmesdale is Hester's secret lover. ... There Dimmesdale admits his sin, drops to his knees, and dies. ... When Dimmesdale becomes sick Chillingworth sees it as his opportunity to find out the truth about Dimmesdale. ...

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When Arthur Dimmesdale finally confesses, his suffering assists him to be contrite as well. ... He makes it his sole purpose in life to cause Dimmesdale to suffer. Chillingworth does not want Arthur to confess his sins because he would then feel relief. ... Although he forgives Hester, Chillingworth does not forgive Arthur, and is incapable of doing anything other than tormenting him. ... If Dimmesdale confesses, Chillingworth will no longer have a life; he and Dimmesdale are interconnected. ...

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Prynne believed that Chillingworth had died years earlier and soon began her adulterous relationship with Arthur Dimmesdale, a beloved minister in the town. ... He had one goal: to destroy Dimmesdale. ... He uses his new "profession" to become close to Dimmesdale. ... His one focus on Dimmesdale's destruction expended all of his energy, so after Dimmesdale's escape he had no reason to live. ... With Roger Chillingworth's one ambition of destroying Arthur Dimmesdale, it led to his ultimate downfall in the end, when Dimmesdale found his own way out of his sin and "escaped" ...

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Dimmesdale. ... Everyone in the town knew and respected him and this helped him gain "friendship" with Dimmesdale. ... My opinion of Arthur Dimmesdale changed quite a bit from when I was first introduced to him until the end of the book. ... Dimmesdale in the forest. ... Dimmesdale. ...

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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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Especially the guilt she brings forth upon 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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Dimmesdale. ... For example people who committed adultery were killed for sinning, even the sinner's children were killed, but now adultery isn't punished by death, it usually results in divorce and childcare. 2.a What is Arthur's objective? ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Arthur Dimmesdale, and old minister, deals with the pain caused by his sin and dies in the end. ... In Hester and Dimmesdale's secret talk in the forest, Hester helps Dimmesdale understand Chillingworth's true nature. 3. ... Dimmesdale's secret haunts him to his death....

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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. ... They believed it darkened the soul, and it did; it almost turned Dimmesdale into an evil shell of a man. ... Dimmesdale did get punished, but it was in private. ... Dimmesdale comments to Hester, "We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. ...

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The father of her baby was the minister of the town, Arthur Dimmesdale. ... The guilt grew inside of Arthur every day. Roger started living with Arthur as his "physician" to make him well again, but at the same time, he was using sly remarks to make the guilt greater within him. This was another factor that was a major conflict because eventually, it made Arthur so guilty and weak, it destroyed him. ...

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She rather suffers than reveal Dimmesdale, saving him from disgrace in his name. ... He represents evil; as he his purpose to life soon changes to torturing Dimmesdale. ... How could Chillingworth be the least moral when doing wrong to Dimmesdale is in his morals? Arthur Dimmesdale, a weak character, mentally and physically in the Scarlet Letter. ... For Dimmesdale, he is the minister of the town. ...

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He looks for something that will destroy Dimmesdale life even more, but he doesn't. Dimmesdale is a scholar of some renown at Oxford University. ... While Chillingworth goes through Dimmesdale's life, he resembles the devil more. The Arthur illustrates this event when he voices, "Now, there was something ugly and evil in his face, which they had not previously noticed, and which grew still the more obvious to sight, the oftener they looked upon him."... Chillingworth doesn't want Dimmesdale to come clean about Pearl because all the tormenting against the priest will end. ...

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Chapter One: The Prison Door Summary A large crowd of Puritans stands outside of the prison, waiting for the door to open. The prison is described as a, "wooden jail...already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy fr...

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Not only do Pearl and Chillingworth have telling names, but the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale's name also serves a symbolic purpose within the book. The name Dimmesdale implies obscurity within his character. ...

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Roger began to toy with Dimmesdales's mind, "Wherefore not; since all the powers of nature call so earnestly for the confession of sin, that black weeds have sprung up out of a buried heart, to make manifest an unspoken crime?"... In chapter twelve when the scarlet letter shoots throughout the sky if the light would have reached Roger, Dimmesdale would have seen the hate there because Roger is slowly forgetting to mask it when necessary. ... Roger transforms from a man with a dream of love to a man on the balance of insanity to being compare to Satan himself, "To sum up the matter, it gr...

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