American Literature
she had been harboring a terrible secret in her heart. After that, the agreement to run away to the Old World was another instance of a character
weakness of Arthur. He had not atoned for his sins, but he would still run away with Hester. He even interpreted the flood of sunshine to mean that
God himself approved of their plan. Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter is the ultimate incarnation of hypocrisy. He represents how the Puritan ideals
had been twisted into something that reeked of hypocrisy. Dimmesdale pretended to be a good, just, and wise minister, in reality, he was a bad,
unjust, and foolish. Dimmesdale recognizes the danger of hypocrisy, but his character is too weak to avoid the pitfall of hypocrisy. The third
character of Roger Chillingworth is a man who at one point was guided by intellect, and not his emotions. He pretends to be Dimmesdale's friend,
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