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Who Is Dimmesdale A Puritan

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In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays two Puritans that have opposing experiences in the theocracy. The people of New Jerusalem claim Arthur Dimmesdale to be a gift from God. In contrast to Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne becomes undesired in the eyes of The City Upon a Hill. Due to their diverse exposures in the rigid Puritan society, Dimmesdale and Hester do not belong together. To begin, the people of the Massachusetts Bay Colony embrace Reverend Dimmesdale as one of their own. He is seen as so exceptional that he appears to be undergoing apotheosis before his parishioners. In fact, he is “considered...as little less than a heaven-ordained apostle” according to the Puritans (Hawthorne 109). After his affair with Hester
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