Character Analysis Of Arthur Dimmesdale In "The Scarlet Letter"

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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 much at fault for Hesterÿs torment as any common villager, if not
even more so. Seven years prior, Hester stood in this place and took the
punishment for both of them while he quietly stood aside and led people to
believe that he also condemned her. During those long seven years he made
no move to lessen her load or his own. Now Dimmesdale has had all that he
can bear and lets out a yell that draws the attention of fellow villagers.
He curses himself for his silence and cowardice.
On the scaffold in the chapter 23 the true sign of strength ids
revealed. To admit he is wrong takes strength, but the way that he held in
his sin thus committing two, one of the original sin, and two of the
concealment, then ...

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