Arthur Dimmesdale, by and large, was represented goodness and purity in the story. The entire town revered him and he was a highly respected Reverend.  Also, he was generally esteemed for the "holy and pious" life that he led, and the fact that he continued to carry out his holy duties despite his physical ailments. Dimmesdale was even said to be a good looking man, whom all of the virgins in town seemed to lust after. This was a method of showing Dimmesdale’s inner beauty and general goodness.  It was as if everything Dimmesdale stood for and did was good, and most of the town believed that, but Dimmesdale knew it was

not so.  He was aware of his secret sin, and several times he asked Hester to reveal him, for he knew he could not do it himself.  The pastor once said:

After the death of Dimmesdale, Chillingworth was given his excuse to die, and he did so soon after.  But before his own death, Chillingworth did a single thing that made him at least somewhat worthy of redemption.  He left every bit of his estate to Hester’s daughter, Pearl.  He did not want to leave it to Hester, because he still felt wronged by her.  He left it to Pearl for two reasons.  First, because he had no one else to leave his fortune to. The man had not lived in the village for his entire life, and in the years that he had lived there, he had only “befriended” the minister, and really did not know anyone else. Also, they were slightly afraid of him, because of the devilish look about him, and surely he was shunned after it was discovered what he had been doing to the good Reverend Dimmesdale for all those years.  Secondly, he left his estate to the girl he felt sorry for Pearl.  He felt as if he had taken away her father and her chance at a normal, happy life.  Pearl’s tears had touched his deep, dark soul on the day her father died.  Chillingworth felt some responsibility for Dimmesdale, and though he had been his foe, he felt that he owed it to Pearl, in order to make up for his murderous, vengeful acts.  Thus, he proved that in even the most evil being, there is some good, as Dimmesdale proved that even in the purest of beings, there is often corruption within.

But the former aspect of an intellectual and studious man, calm and quiet, which was what she best remembered of him, had altogether vanished and been succeeded by an eager, searching, almost fierce, yet carefully guarded look.  It seemed to be his wish and purpose to mask this expression with a smile, but the latter played him false, and flickered over his visage so deri- sively , that the spectator could see his blackness all all the better for it…In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of a man’s faculty of transfo

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