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Arthur Dimmesdale In The Scarlett Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Other characters that share some common points would be Arthur Dimmesdale and Billy Flynn. They have been able to manipulate their words to influence the crowds and have them believe whatever they tell them. In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale used double entendre to give his confession about his acts of adultery to the people of the puritan community. To everyone in the crowd, it sounded like he was saying words to encourage the adulterer to come out but he was saying how he’d do it again with Hester. He had been visiting Hester at night for awhile and continued to lead on the community that he was innocent but he’s actually hurting from pain he’s selfinclicting. It had gotten so bad that it even started to affect his health. To repent for his act of adultery, he carved a letter “A” into his chest to show he is a sinner as well but couldn’t publicly announce it . …show more content…

Billy Flynn from the musical Chicago, is a lawyer that has never lost a Women’s case. Billy Flynn uses different methods to persuade the press to believe what ever story he feeds them. As shown in the case of Roxie Hart, he has her change her appearance to appeal to the press, changes the story to make her more likeable and pitiful, and tampers with his own evidence to use it to his own advantage in court. He even switches between clients cases to the ones that attract the most news. He went from Velma to Roxie, Roxie to Kitty, and then back to Roxie. He only went back to Roxie because she was able to shift the press back to her. Arthur is different from Billy Flynn because he doesn’t lie when he talks to others. When Arthur speaks, he used double entendre for Hester and is vague when he describes his problems to

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Dimmesdale’s Guilt In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, admitting guilt opens oneself to sin. When Hester admits to being guilty of adultery, it condemns her. However, by accepting her condemnation, she saves her soul. On the other hand, Dimmesdale does not confess to his part in the adultery. He keeps his guilt bottled up inside.

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Dimsdale’s Decision By Aurora Tennant Have you ever had to make a really hard decision? This was exactly the position Dimsdale was in. We know that adultery was committed. I believe that he should have confessed in the beginning. Conversely some believe, he should not have confessed in the beginning.

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Father Flynn admits to meeting with Donald and proceeds to make up a story, knowing that Donald won’t tell on him. I believe that Father Flynn manipulates the situation with Donald to take advantage of the young boy. In my opinion, Father Flynn’s behavior is strange and he leaves the church to run from Sister’s Aloysius’

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According to Hawthorne, the consequence of sin is mental deterioration as represented by Reverend Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale is a priest that has committed a vile crime, although only a scanty amount of people know about it. Dimmesdale has not publically announced his sin, which in turn worsens his mental health due to guilt. Dimmesdale stood in front of the town when his past lover, Hester, was being publically humiliated and never uttered a word, only placed “his hand upon his heart” (59). The consequence of not admitting his immoral sin was ultimate guilt.

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The relationship between Pearl and Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is one that both intrigues the reader and keeps them wanting to find out more. At the beginning of the story nothing is very clear about Pearl’s father but as you read on there are many cues that lead you to Reverend Dimmesdale, the pastor of the church where Pearl’s mother, Hester Prynne, was a member. Through all the twists and turns there are a few things that stick out in the readers mind such as the progression of their relationship, the behavior and psychology of Pearl and how the novel could be seen as a story almost all about Pearl. The progression starts during the third chapter of the novel when Hester and her young child are on the scaffold to be publicly shamed for her adultery.

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Dimmesdale’s True Colors Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, also the father of Hester’s child, showed prominent parts of his character throughout the story. The first trait the reader becomes aware of is Dimmesdale’s cowardice. He has no intentions of revealing his sin to the public, due to how highly he is seen in the community’s eyes. Remorse, or guilt, is another term that can be associated with Dimmesdale, growing increasingly more prominent as the novel goes on. Cowardice, a lacking of bravery when facing danger, was a trait that Dimmesdale carried.

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Humans have a tendency to conform and often neglect the potential consequences of doing so. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author introduces those consequences through a respected clergyman and sinner named Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale struggles with his guilty conscience and cowardice to confess his sin which prompts him to abide by societal rules but question himself in private. Dimmesdale’s conflict between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the novel’s message that everybody must confront their sins or they will fall victim to some form of retribution.

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Gaining confidence, Roxie fires Billy, claiming he’s just out to get money. After Katalin Helinszki is murdered, Roxie is frightened and rehires Billy to continue the case. In the court room Billy manipulates evidence, discredits multiple witnesses, and stages reconciliation between Amos and

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In order to reveal Dimmesdale's sorrowful nature. Hawthorne describes the different actions the poor minister takes in order to attempt to atone for his sins such as “[fasting]” and his use of a “bloody scourge” he genuinely believed that this would help to purify himself of his sins and to relieve the burden that he was forced to bear upon his shoulders, however his attempts to atone ultimately lead to even more torment. Hawthorne discloses this by describing Dimmesdale’s visions of the “herd of diabolic shapes, that grinned and mocked at the pale minister” this further reveals the utter anguish that he is going through another example of this is the vision of his mother “turning her face away as she passed by” the emotional

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When Dimmesdale kept it hidden from everyone else it consumed him and put the mark on his body, symbolizing that secret sin will destroy the sinner. During the story of the Scarlett Letter Reverend Aurthur evolves because of the sin that he had committed. Therefore within the book he started off as a nervous and startled man, which then leads him into getting sick from the guilt inside him, and finally leads him to confess his sin, that came with a price. Guilt is an emotion that can consume someone if it were cancer.

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Relationships–they make us, and they break us. They give us life and can also kill us physically and emotionally. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, relationships are the antagonist and protagonist. One in specific–that of Hester Prynne’s and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale’s–creates the major drama within the plot, after the appalling sin of adultery is committed in seventeenth-century Puritan society. Hester must stand upon a scaffold and face the punishment of shame in front of the whole town, and is also sentenced to wearing a woven scarlet letter A on her breast to remind others that she is an adulterer.

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