the sin openly‚ whereas the people surrounding her hides them away. Dimmesdale is utilized by Hawthorne as another way to compare the puritans to Hester. Whereas Hester is rejected from normal town life as romantic heroes are also classified by their individualism‚ Dimmesdale is coveted as a holy pastor to the Lord the Puritans worship‚ though on the inside Dimmesdale is too a sinner as Hester and everyone else is. As Dimmesdale hides his sin‚ the guilt surrounding it intensifies. Hester wears her
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Arthur Dimmesdale‚ because she had to wear her sin openly on her chest‚ forcing her to confront her sin and the stigma that comes along with it. By confronting her sin‚ she was able to accept what she had done and be freed from the guilt that comes with secrecy and represented sin. Her freedom allowed her to be the least internally burdened of the main characters. Roger Chillingworth was a vengeful‚ obsessive man and was therefore burdened everyday by thoughts of his revenge on Dimmesdale. Pearl
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Often‚ two people can commit the same sin‚ but deal with it differently. Guilt can be dealt with in two ways: publicly or privately. In The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale both commit adultery‚ and both Hester and Dimmesdale deal with guilt from the sin they committed in completely different ways. Hawthorne writes about dealing with guilt publicly and privately to show the emotional and sometimes physical toll of guilt based on how people choose to deal
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In Nathaniel Hawthrone’s novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ both main protagonists‚ Hester and Dimmesdale‚ present behaviors which do not correlate with what they feel inside. According to Psychoanalytic ideology‚ "[the study] to bring patients’ repressed memories and wishes to the surface"(Psychoanalysis)‚ Hester and Dimmesdale are repressing their real emotions and projections ones that they are not feeling. In the beginning of the novel‚"When the young woman- them other of this child- stood fully revealed
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the fact that when John Wilson asked Reverend Dimmesdale if he was going to be the one to determine the fate of Hester Prynne‚ or if Wilson himself was going to have to determine Hester Prynne’s fate‚ Dimmesdale hesitated. He didn’t want to be the one to determine Hester’s fate because he feared what Hester’s response would be and feared that she would give him up as her lover. The second clue or detail that reveals Mr. X’s identity is when Dimmesdale is asking Hester to reveal who her fellow sinner
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dozen crucial triads in the first eight chapters of The Scarlet Letter‚ but one stands out among the rest. The paramount triad in The Scarlet Letter is undoubtedly the relationship between Hester Prynne‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. The first four chapters of The Scarlet Letter introduce this paramount triad. Chapter
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scourge. Oftentimes‚ this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders; laughing bitterly at himself the while‚ and smiting so much more pitilessly because of the bitter laugh” (Hawthorne‚ 132). In addition to whipping himself‚ Dimmesdale also starved himself. This shows the comparison of how people deal with their sins depending on if they are public or kept in secrecy. Regardless to this‚ the novel illustrates how everyone carries sin with them and how they are all punished; each
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would it be to consider the worst sinner. Going through each of the puritans‚ it seems that three of them would be the worst sinner. Out of Author Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne; Roger Chillingworth would be consider the worst sinner‚ because he never manage to confess his sin to others and remains with it for the rest of his life. Although Author Dimmesdale may seem to be the worst sinner‚ he actually manages to confess his sin to the public and redeem himself. People may think that he could be the
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highest. Committing a sin is considered to be unholy. Puritans were one of the most strict groups to obey and follow God’s plan. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn‚ many characters struggle to carry the burden of sin on their backs. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ a Puritan minister‚ struggled the greatest with his sin which eventually led to his death. Dimmesdale’s sin was the greatest because he sinned against God and the Church but he also sinned against Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. “Inward
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knew that… I asked Hester to promise me one thing‚ and that was to not reveal my identity‚ and she agrees but only because I promised her that I wouldn’t harm the father.. Everyone gets called to the Governor’s mansion and Bellingham‚ Wilson‚ Dimmesdale‚ and I enter the room. We are all sitting around with Hester and Pearl to talk about them‚ and if Hester should keep Pearl or not. We all are teasing her child because she was like a demon-child since her mother committed a sin. This town in Boston
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