Character Analysis Of Arthur Dimmesdale In "The Scarlet Letter"
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The Scarlet Letter is a story of characters that have to live and
deal with the effects of sin in different ways. Of these characters, the
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the character portrayed as the most weak and
unnoble. Despite this portrayal Dimmesdale was a stronger character than
given cre ....
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.... hers, because while
hers is an exposed sin. He continues to lie to himself and his followers
by keeping his secret hidden, so his is a concealed sin. Here Hawthorne
shows us just how strong Dimmesdale actually is, by allowing him to hide
his sin and bear the weight of it, he creates an extremely interesting and
tremendously strong character.
The scaffold is the place that Dimmesdale shows the amount of pain
and self-loathing he is truly capable of concealing. He realizes that he
is as mu ....
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