Reverend Dimmesdale In The Scarlet Letter

Later in The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale digs himself into a dark hole of shame and failure. At this point in the book Dimmesdale’s guilt has built up to an extreme amount he inflicts torment

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main characters have different kinds of burdens to carry depending on their level of ownership over their actions and identity. Dimmesdale has the worst burden to bear because he did not own up to his actions until the very end, Hester has to adjust to the punishment that the Puritans gave her, and Pearl has no burden because she is honest. Throughout the novel, they face different obstacles that contribute to their everyday lives that makes it hard to process everything at once. It’s also to show how the characters were able to face the problems and deal with them

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is about a young woman named Hester Prynne, who has committed adultery and gave birth to a daughter named Pearl. As a punishment, Hester has to wear a cloth with a scarlet letter ‘A’ on her chest that stands for ‘Adulteress’ for all her lifetime. Meanwhile, Hester’s husband, Roger Chillingworth, who has been missing for two years come back and decides to take a revenge on Hester’s lover. Throughout the novel, Chillingworth has discovered that a young minister named Dimmesdale is a Hester’s lover. Dimmesdale is the worst sinner than Chillingworth because Dimmesdale doesn’t have moral, he is a coward that decides to keep his secret, and he doesn’t have responsibility.

Mr. Dimmesdale’s conscience constantly brought his negative aspects to mind, and caused him to spiral into self hatred and misery. The overwhelming presence of guilt for his offense caused Mr. Dimmesdale unbearable suffering and general unhappiness in knowing that he had not only wronged God, but Hester and the entire community as well.

Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, proves to be a sinner against man, against God and most importantly against himself because he has committed adultery with Hester Prynne, resulting in an illegitimate child, Pearl. His sinning against himself, for which he ultimately paid the

Mr. Dimmesdale commits a sin but does not confess for fear of humiliation and hatred. By not confessing, he pays the price physically and emotionally. By physically hurting himself, he presumes it replaces the conflict of not exposing his true self to the community. He is held accountable for his actions at a personal degree of suffering. On the other hand, the community and townspeople are accountable for a high degree of the reverend’s actions. On the scaffold the night Mr. Dimmesdale stood with Pearl and Hester, he rejected holding his daughter’s hand in public because “...all the dread of public exposure that had so long been the anguish of his life had returned upon him; and he was already trembling at the conjunction...” (Hawthorne 149). He feels like he has to conform to society to be accepted, and it results in the failure of taking Pearl’s hand in public and divulging the truth. The townsfolk are more responsible for Dimmesdale’s actions because they create a life where wrongdoing is the ultimate sin, and forgiveness is omitted.

Reverend Dimmesdale is a beloved Puritan minister who's Hester's paramour and father of Pearl. One of rivaling enemies is Chillingworth, physician and Hester's husband, who suspects Dimmesdale is Pearl's father. He begins to notice Dimmesdale declining health and considers moving in with him to ‘nurse him back to health.’ However, as a means of revenge, he takes the opportunity to implement torture and pain upon him. One night, when Dimmesdale falls asleep, Chillingworth sneaks a glance at his chest and discovers a carving within his chest. He then dances with glee and enjoys the sight of subtle torture Dimmesdale has self-inflicted since the “doctor’s joy from Satan’s was the quality of wonder.” The discovery of Dimmesdale's chest may have

Oh how the mighty fall. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's “THE SCARLET LETTER” we see this man of God, this mighty Reverend who was viewed in an almost aristocratic way plunge head deep into a pit of guilt and self pity, because he is scared to admit he is Hester's secret lover, and our good reverend eventually drives himself mad with sorrow and meets his end. This can be confirmed by a line for a paper written about Dimmesdale's feelings throughout the book “Dimmesdale alone knows that he is the man signified by this "A" for adultery and "A" for Arthur. This scarlet letter is indeed a letter, an item of private correspondence between lovers” (Valenti, 10). WE later see our grand reverend’s snapping moment in the twentieth

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the young Arthur Dimmesdale is a highly respected reverend in 17th century puritanical Massachusetts. However, he is the most morally ambiguous character in the novel because of the one great sin he commits and fails to readily confess. For this, he suffers an internal affliction that destabilizes his physical and spiritual composure. Dimmesdale’s sin was detrimental, but this action cannot qualify him as a bad person because in all other aspects, he is as righteous as the Puritans came. This moral ambiguity of Dimmesdale plays a pivotal role in the novel because it allows the reader to distinguish between true good and evil.

Who created the greatest sin of all? I believe it would be Dimmesdale to be the one. Why, because he came in and ruined somebody else relationship by committing adultery with a married woman and he’s a preacher. For Dimmesdale to be a preacher i'm sure he knew better than to have sex without another woman who he wasn't married to. Dimmesdale should have known even if Hester did come up to approach him then he should have rejected of the top, by him being in one of those leader roles.

This is appropriately named because Dimmesdale reveals his “scarlet letter” and publicly confessing his sin during the second procession of dignitaries. He climbs the scaffold with help of Hester and pearl and confesses the sin, adultery, and that Pearl is his daughter. Upon his revealing he collapses and asks for forgiveness for roger and a kiss from pearl. He then dies in Hester’s arms and the crowd makes a strange murmur sound.

In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale announces many ideas throughout the chapters. He involves his regret, remorse, and other feeling he obtains throughout the story in a various amounts of quotations. Hawthorne illustrates Dimmesdale as a a very independant person who tries to accomplish many things but comes across many obstacles like Hester’s disobedience, the persona perceived of him by the townspeople, and the guilt he carries with him all throughout the story. In chapter 17 of the novel Hester and Dimmesdale encounter each other after seven years of of separation. Dimmesdale implies “What can a ruined soul, like mine, effect towards the redemption of other souls- or a polluted soul, towards their purification?”

Secrets at times, are somewhat difficult to keep. Especially those secrets having to keep things from people you know, and see every day, such as Chillingworth and the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. They both seem and act as if they’ve gone mad, causing a stir in the lives of the two characters, including Hester and Pearl. Their actions caused them to lie and to hesitate on certain things, and in certain environments. Specifically, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, due to him being the father of Pearl, Hester Prynne's daughter.

In many pieces of literature, identity is continuously a theme that pops up. Whether it is in movies from Disney, or books from Hawthorne, or even in life: identity has crawled its way into being one of the most important theme. As Elastigirl from The Incredibles once said, “your identity is your valuable possession. Protect it.” After thinking about that quote for hours, the one question that continuously kept running around in my mind was, how do we know what our identity is?

The final three chapters of the story are when things start to intensify. Chapter twenty-two opens on the ceremony when Dimmesdale is telling the best speech of his career, but he doesn’t look one eye at Hester. Did he not mean what he said in the woods? Does he not really love her? Somehow Master Hibbins finds out about Dimmesdale crimes and tells Hester that he has been marked internally. At the end of his speech Dimmesdale calls Hester and Pearl up to the stage. Finally, he confesses his sin and undying love for Hester and Pearl, I feel as if he has finally come to peace with his guilt and that he can finally live his final days in peace and with a free conscience. Unfortunately, his final days do not last but a few minutes and he dies.