Arthur Dimmesdale In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Sometimes, we make a decision in life that changes life forever in a way that we may or may not like. It might be something all that we could think about that at night you could be going to bed with your head pounding. Thinking about all the stress building inside you.
“What will people think of me if only they knew? Will they accept me still for who I am or will they betray me and forever hold this upon me?” is something we’d ask ourselves. This is basically what’s is happening to minister Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Dimmesdale is the man in the book who has committed adultery with Hester, who is a married woman from Europe. They have welcomed a little girl named Pearl together. Since the day Hester got

But Hester knowing that her husband would want to seek revenge she didn’t want anything to happen to Dimmesdale because of how deep her love is for him. She wants to protect him and make sure nothing ever happens to him because of her. So she doesn’t allow him to. This has caused a lot of stress on Dimmesdale. It’s all he could think about. Dimmesdale is a very religious man and he wants to let his sin out. After seven years of letting all the stress build up, making him depressed as a person, he admits publicly that he is the father of Pearl and the lover of Hester. I think in this moment, all of the suffering he’s gone through of guilt throughout all these years have been made up. In this moment, Hester declares her love for him. Saying whether there is anything there for them afterlife. In this moment Dimmesdale has so much relief, the kind of relief someone gets when they take an advil to take away the pain of a headache. You just feel so much better. This is how Dimmesdale felt. He claimed Pearl. What daughter wouldn’t want to be claimed by their own father? Pearl never got to be able to say “My dad is always there for me” or share bittersweet father-daughter moments in the eye of the public. But now she’s proud of her father for being a big person and not being ashamed of telling the world the truth. The public may think this whole act is a disgrace, but that doesn’t

Pearl now is understanding everything. She went from a “demon child” to a mature child just learning about life. She was right there when her father has died. It made Pearl very emotional, a side we haven’t quite seen as a characteristic of Pearl. She is sad that her father had to go, but she is more than proud to see he has loved her and her mother enough to lose his life. But it shows that Pearl forgives both her mother and father. That she will be the women she is supposed to be. Her forgiving her father because of his public confession, is the most powerful way he has made up for the past seven years. We have to also consider that it wasn’t just his fault for keeping it all building in him, it was Hester’s plan. She didn’t want the public to know. When Dimmesdale dies, he died without guilt. He let it out of him, and now he’s free. He died by letting the world know what’s his. On earth, he may have had all this pressure on him from the guilt he held inside of him for so long, but now he’s leaving the world without all the worrying. He’s now going to be in a better place, where he won’t be judged, where one day him and Hester could meet again and be