... that does not condone indulgences. As he uses expounding third-person omniscient perspective, employs the sinister character of Roger Chillingworth, and illustrates the dualistically ironic depictions of Arthur Dimmesdale, Hawthorne arouses the reader to understand the consequences of crime and shame. While using the omniscient third-person perspective, Hawthorne attempts incorporate the audience into the novel ... order to show how indulgence and shame can have affects outside their host. The ironic presentation of Arthur Dimmesdale's seemingly dualistic character provides the foundati...

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... . Authors present various characters possessing dissimilar qualities, to emphasize different aspects of the work. In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaneil Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. Hence, their different characters contribute vitally to the plot of the novel ... . Arthur Dimmesdale, the Reverent and the protagonists" lover, was not a very powerful character. At his first appearance in the novel, Hawthorne describes his impressive and sk...

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... , capable, but not necessarily extraordinary woman. It is the extraordinary circumstances shaping her that make her such an important figure. Dimmesdale - Arthur Dimmesdale, like Hester Prynne, is an individual whose identity owes more to external circumstances than to his innate nature. The reader is told that ... past suggests that he is probably somewhat aloof, the kind of man who would not have much natural sympathy for ordinary men and women. However, Dimmesdale has an unusually active conscience. The fact that Hester takes all of the blame for their shared sin goads his conscience, ...

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