Chillingworth symbolizes the path less followed‚ due to physical deformities not being a common sight‚ which Hawthorne uses to portray that those who unleash it upon others usually are plagued with a distorted and twisted mind. As Chillingworth engages with Dimmesdale‚ Hawthorne refers to him as “The Leech” and describes how Chillingworth “dug into the poor clergyman’s heart” symbolizing the emotional damage this path illustrates(117). Hawthorne continues to display this unorthodox path by expressing Chillingworth
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executions‚ whippings‚ and public humiliations. In the case of Hester Prynne‚ her punishment for conceiving her daughter Pearl was to wear a scarlet letter A on her chest. Hester violated the Puritan law of premarital sex‚ with the young reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. This criminal activity violated the sexual and social norms of the seventeenth century‚ one of which was the sexual norm of waiting until after marriage to have sex.
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or indirectly feeling bad for not committing something that one has no control over . Regardless of which feeling of guilt‚ each person has experienced this feeling at one point of a their life. One can attribute this feeling to what Reverend Dimmesdale‚ member to the Puritan society‚ felt in The Scarlet Letter when he directly committed adultery with Hester Prynne. Dimmsdale considered himself the “deepest man of guilt” after going against his teachings of quintessential Puritan behavior‚ and
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expected at any moment to be punished by the townspeople because she dealt with it for years. This is shown when Hester is standing in the crowd in front of the scaffold as Dimmesdale is about to announce the long awaited truth (Ch. 23‚ 195). The only time when Hester feels free is when she is in the woods with Pearl and Dimmesdale because she can escape the judgment from the townspeople (Ch. 17‚ 148). When Hester is in the woods she rips off the scarlet letter from her chest and lets her hair down
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Living in Guilt Charity Ryan Throughout The Scarlet Letter‚ Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is tormented by his sin‚ leading to his inevitable death. Hester Prynne must live with the retributions of her adultery every day of her life‚ Pearl being a constant reminder. Even Chillingworth disintegrates under the power of his own sin‚ that of revenge. It seems Hawthorne is trying to make a point in his novel; that it is impossible to escape the consequences of your actions (especially in Puritan
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Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth is a thin‚ small man‚ with a slightly deformed shoulder. He is older than hester and he has an old face with wrinkles. Chillingworth causes a conflict with Arthur Dimmesdale‚ who is also a protagonist in the story. He starts the conflict by seeking revenge terrorizing Dimmesdale and causing him to go crazy. (62)
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the mental and physical anguish of guilt. Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the torment of Reverend Dimmesdale‚ a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter‚ with such dark imagery to portray the guilt and suffering of his secret sin‚ being Hester’s illicit lover and father of Pearl‚ is much worse than his actual death in the end of the book. Through the novel Dimmesdale‚ a well-respected minister of the town‚ debates on whether to tell society that he is the father and lover
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main ways sin and guilt are dealt with is privately and publicly. Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter exemplifies two peoples dealings with the same sin. Hester Prynne is publicly shamed for adultery‚ while Arthur Dimmesdale privately torments himself. Hester is able to deal with her sin better than Dimmesdale‚ because she had confessed her sin‚ she is honest with herself and others‚ and she has her child‚ Pearl. Hester had confessed her sin for all the people of her town to see. Not only did she serve a prison
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Pearl does not know Dimmesdale is her father‚ but when I read this book‚ I can see that he is not a qualified farther. Actually‚ I can’t tell what would happen if Dimmesdale stand out at the beginning of the story‚ but when Hester accept her punishment in public‚ he didn’t responsible for what he have done. There was one time‚ Pearl asked him if he would stand with Hester and her‚ he refused. From Pearl’s perspective‚ Dimmesdale is afraid to show his offense and admit it.
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Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne portrayed a perverse yet conscience-stricken romance between Hester Prynne‚ Reverend Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth in which created the outcome of the Liaison‚ Pearl. Hester was shunned and punished due to the opinions of adultery‚ in which was looked down upon in the 1800’s. Hester committed the crime due to her falling in love with another man‚ Rev. Dimmesdale and caused her to wear a letter of an “A” as punishment since her husband had randomly abandoned her for “Medical
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