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Dimmesdale's Challenges In The Scarlet Letter
In addition, Dimmesdale’s faces many obstacles and challenges that killed him and eat him in the inside. For example, of a challenge that he faces is not confessing to Hester Prynne up front to the townsfolks that he was Hester partner in the affairs. Another example is that when Hester walk up on stage and confess that she was responsible for the adultery and while she was talking she seen Chillingworth looking at her and places his finger on his lips to tell Hester to not tell everybody in town where is he. In fact, Dimmesdale was her partner in an affairs but he really did not what to confess to the town that he was Hester partner in affair if he did everybody will question the minister for being sin so over the time he started to have physiognomy
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