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Who Is Arthur Dimmesdale In The Scarlet Letter

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The Tale of Arthur Dimmesdale Nathaniel Hawthorne does a tremendous job at developing his characters throughout “The Scarlet Letter.” He put a very unique set of characters, each with their own personality that is expected of them at the beginning of the story, but, by the end of the story the reader realizes that the same character acts in a way that the reader was not expecting, because it took the whole story to unfold. One of the main characters that will be explained in the following paragraphs is Arthur Dimmesdale. He was the preacher for the puritans in the story, and although he began the story as what seemed to be a common and thoughtful man turned out to be something very different. Arthur Dimmesdale starts out as a well admired, trustworthy, thoughtful, …show more content…

Dimmesdale delivers a wonder sermon on the town’s election day, but as unfortunately for him, the bad things keep snowballing. Dimmesdale takes Hester by the hand and brings her up on a familiar scaffold with him, and he finally confesses his sin of committing adultery with Hester. Dimmesdale then reveals a scarlet letter “A” on his chest, put there by himself or as a sign from God, therefore revealing his shame and guilt by letting everyone see. Shortly after, while still on the scaffold, he dies. Dimmesdale may have had a lot of bumps in the road on his journey through life, but did he end by doing the right thing. By bringing Hester up on the scaffold with to finally confess his sin he finally practices what he has preached that those who sin must be punished, thus the scarlet letter. It also shows, although not displayed at the beginning of the story because of his cowardness to confess sooner, that Dimmesdale is courageous enough to display his wrong doings to the public instead of hiding it furthermore. Dimmesdale had his ups and downs throughout life, but did still prove that he was a man of God and stood by his

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