Scarlet Letter Essay
Randall Stewart, a literary critic, had the following to say about Hester and Dimmesdale: “…but Hester is not the protagonist, the chief actor and the tragedy of The Scarlet Letter is not her tragedy but Arthur’s. He is the persecuted one, the tempted one. He was whom the sorrows of death encompassed…his public confession is one of the noblest climaxes of tragic literature.” This quote by Stewart contradicts the ideas that I think were contained in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and therefore I do not agree with this quote. In my opinion, Dimmesdale is a hypocritical and cowardly man.
Dimmesdale can be thought of as a man who wants to delve into the hormonal world. However, the world that he lives in is a Puritan one and the society looks down upon sexuality. As a religious figure, Dimmesdale’s image is that of a person who is devoted to higher things and thus, it is very difficult for him to just move on after losing his innocence like other men his......
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