... his purpose to life soon changes to torturing Dimmesdale. He does admit he was wrong marrying Hester without expressions of love. But never wrong that he would seek revenge. "-what had I to do it youth and beauty like thine own! Misshapened from my birthhour, how could I delude myself with the idea that intellectual gifts might veil physical deformity in a young girl's fantasy ... me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life." Pg. 65. For Dimmesdale, he is ...

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