The Scarlet Letter: Dimmersdale Is A Coward And A Hypocrite
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"But (Hester) is not the protagonist; the chief actor, and the tragedy of
The Scarlet Letter is not her tragedy, but Dimmesdales. He it was whom the
sorrows of death encompassed_.. His public confession is one of the noblest
climaxes of tragic literature."
This statement by Randall Stewart does n ....
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never quite manage this. He is a typical diagnosis of a "wuss".
To some extent, Dimmesdale's story is one of a single man tempted into the
depths of the hormonal world. This world, however, is a place where the
society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously
complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and
by his own image of himself as a cleric devoted to higher things. Unlike
other young men, Dimmesdale cannot accept his loss of inno ....
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