... sent from heaven. Once knowing of the sin committed by the two, his reputation would be finished. The Puritans are very strict and religious and sin is not allowed or the person is condemned. Hawthorne's strategy in The Scarlet Letter is to enclose his human dilemma between the extreme positions represented by the black puritan and the fair puritan and to investigate a range of consequences ... within those boundaries. ( Stubbs Caldwell) The day that Dimsdale confessed he was ... filled with energy and was ready to tell the world what he had ... ...

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