Dimmesale
Dimmesdale is a scared man because he is Hester's lover but does not want to admit it. He watches Hester suffer and face her sin while he hides his inside like a coward. However he suffers a great deal as well. "What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him-yea, compel him, as it were- to open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee and the sorrow without"We can see that he wants Hester to help him confess his sin, but she refuses so he will not get in trouble. He is unsure whether to confess or not because in his society, he is regarded as a person of high position and respect. If he were to confess that he committed adultery, everything he did would be gone. Still, if he doesn't confess, the guilt will destroy him from the inside.Dimmesdale persuades the clergymen to allow Hester to keep Pearl on terms that Pearl is a torture for her to keep because Pearl is a child born from sin. She defends Hester and does all she can to help her. We also know that he has become weak and needs Chillingworth's help. These are some of the distinct clues that we see that Dimmesdale is Hester's lover."And I conceive, moreover, that the hearst holding such miserab
"Dimmesdale is torturing himself by whipping himself and starving himself. le secrets as you speak of will yield them up, at that lasty day, not with reluctrance, but with a joy unuttereable. When Chillingworth opens Dimmesdale's shirt, he is overjoyed. "Hester looked, by way of humoring the child; and she saw that, owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance. She realizes this from Dimmesdale freedom even though he sinned. She thinks about her life, and how she married someone she did not love. He is obsessed with torturing Dimmesdale and that his main goal in life. Her minister, Dimmesdale repeatedly questions her and tells her to confess the name of her lover because hiding it does no good. Or it may kind of shows that there is still some good in anyone no matter how evil they are. She lives with society but not in society, she has a totally different set of morals and way of life. She is described as an imp or an elf child to show how different she is and outcasted from society. She is tormented inside and is shown as the one who has lost their way, taken by satan. The letter on his chest also represents that his sin will never leave because it is a part of his body rather than Hester's is only a piece of cloth. The author uses this character to portray the trait that humans can recognizes their faults but rarely do anything to change and or fix them. Pearl gets mad when Hester takes off the scarlet letter in the forest because the scarlet letter is what makes her mother stand out from the crowd, what makes her unique.
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