2/15/12 American Lit Dimmesdale Character Analysis Dimmesdale is one of the most interesting characters in The Scarlet Letter. This is because he demonstrates in this story that he is at times a coward‚ and that he is strong‚ yet not courageous. Dimmesdale is develops as a character drastically throughout the story. Changes in his character are frequent throughout the book. Throughout the whole story‚ Dimmesdale shows himself as a very diverse and intriguing character. Dimmesdale proves that he is
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the bible‚ God’s word. In actuality every character is a sinner someway and somehow. After reading the book‚ there is one character that sticks out to be the biggest sinner of all. That is Dimmesdale. Although all characters are sinners‚ Dimmesdale committed the greater sin for impregnating Hester Pryne. Dimmesdale is the pope of the town. He gives sermons in the church‚ he preaches‚ he leads people to follow the word of God. One of the major sins in the book of the bible is adultery. Adultery also
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Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Dimmesdale who is a minister acts as a role model to the townspeople. He is the last person who should commit a crime and lie about it. As the minister of the community‚ Dimmesdale is held to certain moral standards‚ and is expected to be the moral measure for his congregation. He attempts to follow the strictures of society‚ but must hide his sins of adultery and hypocrisy to remain angelic within the community. Dimmesdale weighted with the guilt of what he has
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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 relationship
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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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portrays Dimmesdale as a weak person. Throughout the novel he shows his true character by the way he lets his weaknesses destroy him. He constantly worries about he secret getting out and punishes himself for what he has done. Dimmesdale has many weaknesses that all lead back to one main one‚ Hester. He is a priest and knows she is married but they still commit adultery. This leads to Hester’s pregnancy and the townspeople’s knowledge of her adultery. They don’t know however that Dimmesdale is the
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provided by the author to show us a kind of foil. The one character‚ Reverend Dimmesdale‚ seems as if he is kind‚ but he has been living with a terrible burden‚ hindering him everywhere he goes. Chillingworth is his opposite‚ you would assume him to be nice when really he is quite evil. Dimmesdale and Chillingworth bring out each other’s characteristics and bring out the characteristics of other characters around them. Dimmesdale and Chillingworth but heads in every aspect of their lives especially when
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Many characters go through transformations in The Scarlet Letter‚ and one of those characters is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of a puritan society‚ and it is the laws of that society‚ both written and unwritten‚ that Dimmesdale breaks and which causes the changes to occur. He commits the sin of adultery‚ and by sleeping with Hester Prynne‚ breaks the laws that he is supposed to represent. He cannot admit his sin because he is a holy man‚ and admitting his sin would
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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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Quote Essay 15 3/27/15 "A little nonsense‚ now and then‚ is relished by the wisest men." Anonymous; used in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Every person in society deserves to be a little playful sometimes‚ because being a serious human being all the time‚ will make you into a different person than everyone else. Having fun is one of the most important things in life‚ because it lets a person come out of their shell‚ and just live for a little. Not only does having fun and being happy make
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