Arthur Dimmesdale: Evil Or Not?

Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl. Hester Prynne is from New England, she married a man named Roger Chillingworth. Their plan was to move to Boston together, Hester would go first and Roger would follow. Roger never showed up, so Hester had an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale and had a child with him. Hester is shamed and alienated from the town, Hester becomes very independent. Roger Chillingworth has a distorted soul, he is unable to engage in relationships, he represents true evil. Roger eventually

Evil in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne stands as one of the most famous works in the history of American literature. Set in Puritan Boston during the mid-1600’s, the renowned tale presents the story of a young, beautiful woman, Hester Prynne, who commits adultery against her husband, Roger Chillingworth, who was presumed dead. Due to her pregnancy, Hester is forced to admit her sin. After giving birth to a daughter, named Pearl, Hester is forced to stand on a

Scarlet Letter           In the New Testament it states that "the wages of sin is death." Though the penalty of sin in The Scarlet Letter is not a termination of life, the evil of isolation can be a physically, morally, and socially tortuous event in Puritan society. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, are both victims of the cruel isolation from Puritan society on the basis of their sins. Hester wears her sin upon her breast where it

on the side of good or evil. Even at the end of The Scarlet Letter, the knowledge of Roger Chillingworth is extremely nebulous. The mysterious Roger Chillingworth, although ultimately emanating to be evil, attests to be a challenge when determining his morality. Roger Chillingworth attempts to beguile us by enacting the role of a physician, and ensconces his relationship with Hester Prynne. He lives with Arthur Dimmesdale, vindicating that he is serving Arthur Dimmesdale a helpful medicine, while

not announce Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher of the town, as the father of her daughter. So while Arthur is full of guilt, Hester’s husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge. Another American gothic novel, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, is about a young boy, Ishmael, who goes whaling for the first time. But for this voyage Captain Ahab urge his men to find Moby Dick, the big white whale, for revenge after he consumes his leg. Likewise Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab are both evil characters with

through the works of his The Scarlet Letter and “Young Goodman Brown”, illustrates the difference between good and evil as well as the separation between the new and old generation and how the youth challenges the way of traditional Puritan society. This can be seen by Goodmans Brown’s character, the younger women at Hester Prynne’s public condemnation, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale, and Hester’s relationship with her daughter Pearl. Nathaniel Hawthorne is most famous for writing The Scarlet

in the book. Just a few of the key symbols of this book include Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Mistress Hibbons. Three of these characters, Hester Prynne,

Nathaniel Hawthorne explains how a small Puritan village gets through sin and the way it took over their lives in The Scarlet Letter. Light and dark imagery, alluding to the larger conflict between good and evil, is present throughout the novel in the characters of Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Hester Prynne was a woman who sinned against the Puritan way, yet got through it and was able to live a life in which her daughter learned how to be civilized and respectable

Did you know, that in Puritan Massachusetts adultery was likely punished by death of both committees instead of humiliation? Arthur Dimmesdale, in the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is the town reverend and is also the father of Hester’s baby, but his guilt is overwhelming himself because he is unable to confess. Currently, Arthur Dimmesdale is torturing himself so juristically that he has developed a illness so bad that he has to constantly clutch his chest in pain. Roger Chillingworth

attachment. They make it through some of the hardest times even at a distance, from being years apart, but yet only a few feet away. The light and dark imagery, alluding to the larger conflict between good and evil, is present throughout the novel in the characters of Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl. Hester Prynne, a beautiful, strong, independent women with a scarlet letter. She defies the odds men put against the women. She stood out against those who seemed she had done wrong. With