Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter considers Arthur Dimmesdale‚ reverend of the Puritanical town‚ a saint by the town‚ yet the readers know who he truly is‚ however that hypocritical view is not necessarily awful‚ it can actually do good because the town needs a leader who can lead them and take care of them‚ and Dimmesdale has done just that. In the novel‚ several characters had developed a public facade to make sure they were respected and hid their true personality‚ only to be shown
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Mrs. R. Patterson English 5 AP 22 October‚ 2012 Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is one troubled (and multi-faceted) man. A brilliant speaker‚ a kind man‚ a wise reverend – everyone loves this guy. He’s pretty much a rock star in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (and that doesn’t seem like such an easy feat in Puritan society). With his education and religious standing it allows him to have a larger sense of humility and understanding. So with Dimmesdale also being Hester’s illicit lover
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the whole novel. The first example is Arthur Dimmesdale. He has to keep the secret that he is Pearl’s father. To the whole town‚ Dimmesdale is known as being a great minister‚ but in this mind he was really a sinner. By having this battle going on in his head Dimmesdale became weak. Hawthorne explains this by saying "his spirit lacked the strength that could have borne up‚ as thine has been‚ beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter" (p.124). Because Dimmesdale was so confused by the two different
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Hawthorne portrays Arthur Dimmesdale as a hypocrite in order to show the contrast between a person’s life with society knowing their sins‚ like Hester’s‚ and a person’s life with concealed sins‚ like Dimmesdale’s‚ as well as exhibiting the negative effects that hypocrisy can have on someone’s conscience. Body: Throughout the novel‚ Dimmesdale exhibits his life of hypocrisy more and more as he struggles to deal with its negative effects on his conscience. From the moment Dimmesdale had an intimate
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In the novel The Scarlet Letter it was necessary to keep Hester Prynne’s adulteress lover Arthur Dimmesdale a secret because of their young daughter Pearl. Hester Prynne was married at the time Pearl was conceived‚ making the townspeople furious with her adultery. As her husband comes to town under an alias named physician Roger Chillingworth‚ he examines the Panic-stricken baby and bashes Hester for being deceitful. Moving to the outskirts of town and raising what many called a “devil baby” Pearl
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Arthur Dimmesdale was a very important character in The Scarlet Letter. He encountered many problems and resolved them throughout the novel. He changes a lot throughout the novel‚ physical and mentally. While reading the novel‚ the reader can relate to Dimmesdale by his actions and feelings. Minister Arthur Dimmesdale explains the moral of the story‚ and helps the reader understand what the novel is about. First‚ Dimmesdale encountered many problems throughout the story. These problems were very
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deceived with the first appearance of things‚ for show is not substance‚” This idea of appearances being deceiving outwards relates to the characters Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth. For example‚ through the towns people considered Hester a sinner however she is a good person inside by helping the poor and such. Dimmesdale was the minister of the town‚ and everyone thinks he would do no sin but in fact he is Pearl’s father. Chillingworth worth gave the idea that he was a physician
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Arthur Dimmesdale Modern Day David Arthur Dimmesdale is a great man and also a priest‚ but later on in his life when he met Hester it seemed like everything turned to sin. Arthur was a very strong and knowledgeable man. He stood strong in the values he preached and also in the words he said. In the Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne sin was entered by a man and a woman. It wasn’t planned to happen the way it did but when Arthur and Hester met it was instant love. This was shocking
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into the background and personalities of the characters through Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale. These two characters show us the evil in the novel‚ the unfolding sin‚ and add a special romance to the novel Arthur Dimmesdale is the preacher in the Puritan settlement. He becomes involved with Hester Pyrnne‚ the wife of Roger Chillingworth. Pearl‚ Hester’s daughter comes to her from Reverend Dimmesdale. Hester is forced to stand on the scaffold in front of the community to confess whom
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John Proctor vs. Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible both have main characters that can relate to each other even though they are in two different stories. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ one of the main characters of The Scarlet Letter‚ is a respected reverend in society that commits a horrendous and sinful act‚ adultery‚ with a woman named Hester Prynne. John Proctor‚ a main character from The Crucible‚ commits adultery as well with his servant‚ Abigail Williams. These two characters‚ aside
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