•Thesis
The effect of Dimmesdale's self punishment leads to confliction with his self identity
•Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
What does he look like?
"He was a person of very striking aspect,with a white lofty, and impending brow,large, brown,
melancholy eyes, and a mouth which,
unless he forcibly compressed it,
was apt to be tremulous, expressing
both nervous sensibility and a vast
power of self-restraint". (57)
•Physical Symbolic Traits
Dimmesdale's clean and organized appearance gives off the impression that he is a put together guy.
His need for organization in his
life hides the fact that underneath
it all, he is actually apprehensive
and nervous.
•Role in society
Arthur Dimmesdale is a reverend. As a reverend, his life has always been about God and his teachings. He focuses on religion and the importance of spreading it.
"Therefore, so far as his duties would permit, he trode in the shadowy paths, and thus kept himself simple and child-like; coming forth, when occasion was, with a freshness, and fragrance, and dewy purify of thought, which, as many people said, affected them like the speech of an angel". (57)
•Good vs Evil
Mr. Dimmesdale represents Good because he is a pastor, he is the connection between God and people. He is the voice that speaks directly to God.
~"'Speak women.' said another voice, coldly and sternly proceeding from the crowd about the scaffold. 'speak and give your child a father.'"
Mr. Dimmesdale also represents evil because he helped Hester Prynne commit adultery to her husband by sleeping with her. He did not own up to his mistake and instead left Hester to suffer alone.
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Sherri Abbate
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