Chapter 12 The Scarlet Letter
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Individuality and Conformity
One night, Dimmesdale mounts the boondocks scaffold where Hester and Pearl one time stood to be shamed. He imagines the scene filled with townspeople. He cries out in anguish, just Mr. Wilson, who was walking by in the distance, doesn't meet Dimmesdale.
It's articulate now that Dimmesdale shares Hester's "sin." But he tin merely bring himself to experience privately what Hester endured publicly.
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Hester and Pearl, returning from the deathbed of the colony'south first governor, do spot Dimmesdale, and bring together him on the scaffold. Her eyes alive with "witchcraft," Pearl asks Dimmesdale to announced on the scaffold with them in front of everyone. Dimmesdale says he volition just practise that on "judgment day."
Dimmesdale hides backside religion ("judgment day") to evade Pearl's invitation to escape from his secrets. "Witchcraft" offers conservancy while religion offers sin.
A meteor lights up the sky in what Dimmesdale thinks is the shape of an "A." Pearl notices Chillingworth watching them. Chillingworth, looking similar an "arch-fiend," urges Dimmesdale to go down from the scaffold. He and Dimmesdale return habitation.
Nature celebrates the scarlet letter. Yet Dimmesdale'due south goes with the "arch-fiend," He's called secret sin over penalization, repentance, and internal truth.
The next twenty-four hours Dimmesdale delivers his most powerful sermon ever. Later on, the church sexton returns to Dimmesdale a black glove he found on the scaffold, maxim Satan must have left it there. He mentions that other townspeople reported seeing a letter "A" formed past a shooting star, which they took to stand up for "angel" and to mean the expressionless governor has ascended to sky.
More hypocrisy: Dimmesdale's sermons against sin go more powerful as his own sins increase, and the Puritans go on to be blind to the sinning in their midst. Note how the letter "A" ways only what popular opinion says it means.
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