and connect. Dimmesdale as a human needs bridges‚ but is having a very hard time building them. Dimmesdale cannot connect to anyone. He keeps his flock at bay through his sermons and alienates Hester and Pearl by not claiming them in public. He even lacks a bridge to his own soul and desires. The significance of the incidents that Dimmesdale goes through in terms of the plot and character development respectively is that they are part of the rising action and the show that Dimmesdale is becoming even
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Arthur Dimmesdale from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Judge Danforth from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible were bound to suffer from the Puritan values which they believed in during the Puritan era. After thoroughly analyzing both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ it is evident that Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Judge Danforth were notably victimized by the Puritan ethics of body politic and the statute of God as the law. Even though Dimmesdale and
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characters such as Hester and Chillingworth‚ but particularly by Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale‚ the admired minister of the Puritan community‚ spends years hiding that he committed adultery with Hester‚ and does so to protect the Puritans. However‚ the minister hurts himself in the process‚ as he feels unworthy due to his inauthenticity. Hawthorne also depicts the Puritan people as rigid‚ and unable to accept the world as it
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although the two main characters‚ Hester and Dimmesdale are guilty of the similar sins‚ they experience different punishments and outcomes. Hester and Dimmesdale differ in sins they commit. It is clear that they both commit adultery. However‚ the sins Hester and Dimmesdale commit have distinct nuance. First‚ Hester is a married woman. Her sin is definitely entitled as adultery. The book talks about Puritan world of Boston. It is when the Words
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revenge on Dimmesdale (for the affair the minister had with his wife) in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. His need for revenge becomes unnatural and his hatred for Dimmesdale eventually ruins him over the course of several years. Chillingworth is ashamed of the
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They each contain a great deal of significance to the characters involved‚ especially Dimmesdale. The three scaffold scenes are significant to Dimmesdale in different ways because each successive scene is an improvement in his personality. The first scaffold scene is when Hester Prynne is accused of committing adultery and Dimmesdale‚ her lover‚ lets her stand alone for the crime they both committed. Dimmesdale is present throughout the whole scene but he is very hesitant to admit that he is the
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ceases. He punishes people for their sin to gain more power and pleasure. The Devil is‚ nevertheless‚ the worst sinner‚ and a parallel is drawn to Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. In his novel‚ Hawthorne presents the reader with three sinners: Hester‚ Dimmesdale‚ and Chillingsworth. It is clear in the novel that all of them are wrongdoers. Dimmesdale’s and Hester’s adultery causes them to be spiritual transgressors‚ but Hester’s sin is revealed to the village while Dimmesdale’s is a secret. Chillingsworth’s
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innocent and is supposedly a victim‚ he never cared for Hester and ignored her‚ yet he still expected her to love him. Instead of accepting the situation‚ he seeks revenge‚ bringing out the true evil in him. He does not accept Hester’s love for Dimmesdale and deliberately tries to stand in their way. Evil never outlives the good‚ just as Chilingworth doesn’t
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sometimes when people lack the feeling of completeness they begin to look for that feeling in other relationships‚ sex‚ and material things. It’s easy to say that by Dimmesdale being in a constant state of moral confusion he lacked this completeness. He looked to Hester who also lacked a sense of completeness with her husband gone. Dimmesdale fell in love with Hester and through their love they created Pearl. Dimmesdale’s epiphany during these events show his fallibility and the struggle he had doing
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How alike can two people from two completely different generations be? Arthur Dimmesdale and Melinda Sordino come from totally different worlds but share many of the same traits. Therefore‚ their similarities go a long way. The character Arthur Dimmesdale comes from the novel The Scarlet Letter. Due to the complexity of being the legitimate father to Hester Prynne’s baby‚ Dimmesdale reacts in a rather negative way. Melinda Sordino resides in the book Speak‚ and her equivalent reaction comes from
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