The Scarlet Letter: Dimmesdale As The Greatest Sinner
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Throughout the novel Arthur Dimmesdale is portrayed as the greatest sinner. Hawthorne shows this by having Dimmesdale decsieve everyone by not confessing his sin. He also shows it having Dimmesdale neglect his responsibilities as a father. He never takes care of Hester and Pearl. Lastly Dimmesd ....
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.... still running away from his problems, never facing the consequence of his sin. The townspeople dont want to believe his sin anyway because they think to highly of him. He neglected his parental responsibilities as a father by not keeping in touch with Pearl and Hester. This was a very sinful thing to do. When Pearl asks him if he will stand with them on the scaffold he says no, just crushing the child. And Hester does nothing cut encourage this behavior by saying that one day he wil ....
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