He tried to be like a normal person, and had managed to keep his inner emotions private. He doesn't know when it would be the right time to confess to everyone and accept his punishment. He had lashed himself as torture and could have burned the "A" letter into his own flesh to atone for his sins.
His health fails possibly from his stress that prevented him from being closer to Hester and from raising his daughter. While Dimmesdale never meant to have an illegitimate affair with Hester, he chose to die than live another day of guilt and shame.
He died only showing a mark of his crime and not his full confession and lets Hester and Pearl live a more decent life without him. Most sinners would receive their harsh punishments since they deserved it, but Dimmesdale hated himself for the actions he did and hopes that he may only be forgiven by God than Hester and the Puritans. Arthur Dimmesdale had received his education from an English university and settled in Boston, Massachusetts.
After he had formed his own congregation, Dimmesdale met and fell in love with a beautiful Puritan woman named Hester Prynne who had joined his religious group. Although she was already married, Hester and Dimmesdale had an affair that resulted in her becoming pregnant and conceiving a daughter out of wedlock.
At some point, Dimmesdale may had discovered about the illegitimate pregnancy and knew that he had done a terrible thing. He attempted to punish himself and had an "A" symbol carved onto his chest; either he had done it himself or he had someone else do it for him. Afterwards, he decides to keep his sin a secret from the townsfolk. Dimmesdale and his mentor, John Wilson, were present at Hester's public shaming where she stood on a scaffold with her 3-month-old baby in her arms for a few hours and received humiliation from the Puritans.
After being persuaded by Wilson to talk to Hester, Dimmesdale said a silent prayer to himself and questions her who the name of her baby's father is, but she refuses. Dimmesdale was with Wilson when he delivered a sermon and Hester was taken back to her prison cell. About 3 years later, Dimmesdale, along with Wilson and a physician named Roger Chillingworth , arrive at the Governor's house.
The men spot a girl named Pearl there and they tease her, calling her a "demon-child", but they stop when they saw that she is Hester's child and she is nearby. As Governor Bellingham suggests that Pearl should be removed from her mother's care because of the child's blasphemy, Hester begs Dimmesdale to help her.
He accepts her pleas and argued that Pearl is a child made from God as a punishment but was also made to prevent her mother from committing a sin again.
He even points out that the red dress Pearl is wearing symbolizes Hester's scarlet letter, and Chillingworth notes how the minister spoke passionately. Dimmesdale has his hand touched by Pearl before she runs down the hall, and his speech had successfully convinced the Governor to not have the child taken away from Hester.
Some time later, Dimmesdale notices his health is failing and experiences heart problems, with the townsfolk even praising him as a saint due to his strange illness. Chillingworth offers to look after him and the minister moves in with the physician. But in Chillingworth's care, Dimmesdale finds himself being tormented by the physician, physically and mentally.
Chillingworth is convinced that the minister's fragile health may be caused by a secret he's hiding, and when he asks him to talk about it, Dimmesdale refuses. One day, the men were talking about sin and redemption when they spot Pearl in the graveyard outside of Dimmesdale's home, picking up burrs and placing them on Hester's scarlet letter. She tosses a burr at Dimmesdale, and tells Hester they should leave since the Black Man has possessed the minister.
He backs away from the window when the burr was thrown at him. He again refuses to reveal his secret to Chillingworth but he later makes up with him. As Dimmesdale's health worsens, so does Chillingworth's determination. When the minister was asleep a few days later, Chillingworth opens his shirt and slightly sees his red scar that makes him excited. In addition, he finds himself being mistreated and tortured by the physician as revenge.
Dimmesdale becomes miserable and the more he suffers, the more he resents the physician. When he isn't with Chillingworth, Dimmesdale continues to do his sermons, but lately his topic has been about sin. Even if his parishioners admire him, he is sickened by their reactions and cannot bring himself to confess the truth a few times, although he is yearning to do it.
He starts having visions at night, with one where he sees Hester and Pearl in her scarlet dress. Pearl was seen pointing her mother's scarlet letter and Hester pointing to his chest. He is affected by these visions but is unable to seek comfort in the Bible. The more he suffers, the more he hates himself. In the end, this guilt destroys him. He's a weak man who sins and won't accept his punishment, and the hypocrisy eats away at him.
Recognizing that death is imminent, he chooses to purify his soul at the last minute by confessing his sin publicly and revealing the scarlet letter A that has appeared on his chest over his heart. And in the end, he is strong enough to be grateful: "God… is merciful!
By sending yonder dark and terrible old man, to keep the torture always at red-heat! By bringing me hither, to die this death of triumphant ignominy before the people!
Had either of these agonies been wanting, I had been lost for ever! Praised be his name! His will be done! We can't like Reverend Dimmesdale, exactly, and we can't quite respect him, either. But in the end, we do feel sorry for him.
What makes Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale finally feel hope about their future? Why does Hester choose the forest to meet Dimmesdale and Chillingworth? What does the last sentence of the novel mean? Society Empathy. Characters Arthur Dimmesdale. Is there not shade enough in all this boundless forest to hide thy heart from the gaze of Roger Chillingworth?
Chapter 19 Quotes. We will have a home and fireside of our own; and thou shalt sit upon his knee; and he will teach thee many things, and love thee dearly. Thou wilt love him; wilt thou not? Chapter 22 Quotes. Related Themes: Individuality and Conformity. Chapter 23 Quotes. Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it.
Towards her mother, too, Pearl's errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 2. One states that Revered Dimmesdale , Hester's pastor, must be ashamed that a member of his congregation committed such an awful Chapter 3.
Wilson, an elderly local reverend, addresses Hester and calls on her pastor, Arthur Dimmesdale , to question her about her sin. Dimmesdale demands that she reveal the identity of her Chapter 8. John Wilson, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale arrive at the Governor's residence. The men tease Pearl, calling her a demon-child because of Hester begs Dimmesdale to defend her.
Dimmesdale argues that Pearl was sent by God to serve as Hester's Chillingworth notes that Dimmesdale spoke with an unusual amount of passion and conviction. Pearl approaches Dimmesdale and grasps his hand. She then runs down the hall. Wilson remarks that, like Dimmesdale 's speech convinces the Governor not to take Pearl from Hester. On their way out of Chapter 9. Dimmesdale 's health worsens and he is seen often with his hand over his heart.
Chillingworth treats As Dimmesdale 's health wanes, the locals notice that Chillingworth's has transformed from a kind, elderly, and somewhat Chapter While serving as Dimmesdale 's "leech" a term for a doctor Chillingworth begins to suspect that Dimmesdale 's condition may stem Pearl throws one of the burrs she is carrying toward Dimmesdale. She tells Hester that they should leave since the Black Man has possessed Dimmesdale and Dimmesdale 's health gets worse.
Chillingworth attributes his illness to his secret, but Dimmesdale still refuses to
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