The Scarlet Letter, a book portraying a number of unique individuals, some even with mysterious characteristics, still offers a reflection of people attempting to live their everyday lives. Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister of a Calvinist church, once a completely stable man with no worries in his life whatsoever, commits adultery, a very bad thing for the job he occupies, with a woman that has the ring of marriage around her finger, Hester Prynne, whom he loved and with whom made their own little mysterious child that everyone calls Pearl. Hester becomes punished because the townsfolk found out about the sin they committed, but never was Arthur found by the people to be the father; instead, he keeps it as a secret along with his love for both
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While keeping the secret of being the father of the small and mysterious child, he wants to be punished the same way Hester is because he loves her and doesn’t want to see her take the blame and punishments alone. He is not only keeping a secret from the townspeople, but from the puritan church also because he doesn’t confess the sin even though he dearly wants to release it from his chest so he won’t suffer from the mental guilt anymore. The secrecy only makes him continuously paranoid leading near insanity, but not making him completely insane. Roger Chillingworth makes keeping the secret harder by letting him suffer even though he knows that by telling the people of the town who Dimmesdale really was, it would cause him to be punished. The secret gets to him earlier in the novel and now makes it harder for him to keep mentally stable knowing that at any moment his secret could be dispersed to the public. Dimmesdale walks over to stand on the scaffold where he should have seven years ago when Hester Prynne was there and becomes so overcome by self-hatred to the point where it forces him to cry aloud into the night. He cannot take the pain of keeping the terrible secret to himself anymore and decides to share it with the people around him where he should have stood to announce it once
While keeping the secret of being the father of the small and mysterious child, he wants to be punished the same way Hester is because he loves her and doesn’t want to see her take the blame and punishments alone. He is not only keeping a secret from the townspeople, but from the puritan church also because he doesn’t confess the sin even though he dearly wants to release it from his chest so he won’t suffer from the mental guilt anymore. The secrecy only makes him continuously paranoid leading near insanity, but not making him completely insane. Roger Chillingworth makes keeping the secret harder by letting him suffer even though he knows that by telling the people of the town who Dimmesdale really was, it would cause him to be punished. The secret gets to him earlier in the novel and now makes it harder for him to keep mentally stable knowing that at any moment his secret could be dispersed to the public. Dimmesdale walks over to stand on the scaffold where he should have seven years ago when Hester Prynne was there and becomes so overcome by self-hatred to the point where it forces him to cry aloud into the night. He cannot take the pain of keeping the terrible secret to himself anymore and decides to share it with the people around him where he should have stood to announce it once