Dimmesdale In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

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Dimmesdale and Hester have been Thought a lot and asked for a lot and gotten out of a lot and gotten a lot out of it so I do think there forgive. I believe this because when Dimmesdale, Hester and Pearl are on the stage Hester were Hester was publicly shamed. Pearl keeps asking if he’ll be there with them. “Wilt thou stand here with my Mother and me to-morrow noontide” Dimmesdale quotes “ Nay; not so, my pearl! Not so my child. I shall, indeed, stand with thy mother and thee one other day, but not to-morrow!” Pearl gets Dimmesdale to do it with them at The Great
Judgement Day. Another reason I believe that pearl has forgiven him is she lets him kiss her on the cheek the second time around. “‘ dear little pearl, with thou kiss me now? Thou wouldst not yonder, I’m the forest! But now thou wilt?’ Pearl kissed his lips
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Even after Hester died she still wants to stay with Dimmesdale. Hester came back to town so that her and
Dimmesdale could be closer. “Here had been her sin; here had been her sorrow, and here was yet to be her penitence. She had returned, therefore, and resumed,-“
Hester went back to Boston Massachusetts, because she thought there was no real life for her in New England. After the Hester resides she wants to be buried next to a
Dimmesdale so that even in the after life there always together. “And, after many, many years, a new grave was delved, near an old and sunken one, in that burial- ground beside which King's chapel has since been built.” So when she did die she was buried there but thy never wanted dust to mingle so they weren’t close but still next to each other. For these reasons both Dimmesdale and Hester are

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