Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter tells the tale of Hester Prynne as she is led from a towns prison to the scaffold with her infant in her arms with the Scarlet Letter which is an A, on her chest which symbolized the crime she as committed. When a man in the crowd asked why Hester Prynne is on the scaffold. The man answers that Hester has committed the sin of adultery. The father of Pearl Arthur Dimmesdale must live with the guilt of the sin he has committed. While Roger Chillingworth is out to get revenge. Benjamin Kilborne in “shame conflicts in The Scarlet letter” explains, “when Dimmesdale is introduced, he is portrayed as having a startled a half-frightened look as of being who fault himself quite astray” (472). Dimmesdale throughout …show more content…
Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale fall in line of complete opposites and very close and similar friend. Both were sinners, but the people praised Arthur Dimmesdale as the casted away Hester as she was just another person that committed a crime and wanted to remove her from their lives. Hester and Dimmesdale at first look like total opposites but if you look closer you can see a resemblance start to line up. First, they both bear the same marking. Hester’s is more notable, “Scarlet letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom” (51). Hester’s is in front where everyone can see, where there is no hiding the shame and guilt of the crime she has committed. Although Hester is not ashamed of the Letter she makes it big and embroidered with a gold stitching asking everyone to take a glance of what she has done. Dimmesdale also bearers a Scarlet Letter, “he tore way the ministerial band from his breast. It was revealed!” (232). Dimmesdale had a scarlet Letter carved into his chest from the pain he as suffered from himself, but also from the thought that he, the priest, would committed such a dreadful sin. Hester and Dimmesdale both have to deal with the sin that they have committed in very similar ways whether if that is together to apart from