The Greatest Sinner/ The scarlet Letter
Of the three main characters (Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingsworth) the character whose sin was the greatest is Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale committed adultery together. Hester Prynne had been punished for her sin and when asked whom the father of the child was she would not tell. One who reads The Scarlet Letter may blame Hester Prynne for the reason why Roger Chillingsworth becomes so obsessed with finding the father of the child, and may also blame her for the reason why Arthur Dimmesdale becomes so sick throughout the book. One may believe this because if Hester would have just told who the father of the child was in the first place, none of that would have happened. But it is not Hester Prynne's responsibility to tell who the father of the child was; it is th
Arthur Dimmesdale tries to urge her to confess that he is the father, but why should Hester Prynne have to confess? Isn't Dimmesdale old enough to speak for himself and take responsibility for his actions? After Hester Prynne denies to speak out the father's name, Dimmesdale says she won't tell, then Dimmesdale says how Hester is very generous for letting him be unknown. e father, Arthur Dimmesdale's responsibility to confess that he is the father of the child. How could he stand there and speak these words when in his heart he knows that he is the father, does he really think that this is a generous act, would he really rather be unknown and live in guilt for the rest of his life. Arthur Dimmesdale chooses to hide his guilt throught the rest of his life. So after reading this essay the reader should have a much bigger thought about which character's sin was the greatest. Chillingsworth tells the whole town about Dimmesdale's sin while Dimmesdale is on the scaffold. He shows that he does this by putting his hand over his heart throughout the rest of the book. One may think that Roger Chillingsworth is the character whose sin was greatest because he spends his whole life trying to find out something that shouldn't have anything to do with him. In the end, Roger Chillingsworth succeeds; he passes Arthur Dimmesdale through town and is able to see that Dimmesdale is the father of Hester's child. Throughout the rest of the book Dimmesdale is definitely known to be a coward; and throughout the rest of the book he still has the nerve to preach at the church, under God, in his hypocritical manor. The reason why Dimmesdale chooses to hide his heart with his hand is so nobody could read the scarlet letter engraved on his heart. In this book the only person known to be able to find the truth by looking into someone's heart is Roger Chillingsworth, who becomes so obsessed with trying to do so to find the father of Hester Prynne's child. One who reads this may now know that Arthur Dimmesdale is the character whose sin was the greatest, for if he would have just turned the words that he preached into actions and just confessed neither he nor Roger Chillingsworth would have became so sick throughout this book. But again none of this would have happened if Arthur Dimmesdale would have stopped acting like a coward and just confessed.
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