The Scarlet Letter: Dimmesdale's Suffering Of Pain And Guilt

Part I of Essay
In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Dimmesdale suffered the most pain and guilt throughout the entire book. He experienced a prodigious amount of pain that caused guilt from his sin. Dimmesdale inflicted self-punishment due to his unf ....

Part II of Essay
.... and so merciful, who gives me grace, at this last moment, to do what -for my own heavy sin and miserable agony- I withheld myself from doing seven years ago, come hither now, and twine thy strength about me! Thy strength, Hester; but let it be guided by the will which God hath granted me! This wretched and wronged old man is opposing it with all his might!- with all his own might, and the fiend’s! Come, Hester, come! Support me up yonder scaffold!”’(p.235) Dimmesdale also felt guilt and pain about not admitting the sin that he i ....